StarCraft 2: KERRIGAN'S ASCENSION!

There's only one way to permanently defeat Amon...
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In order to defeat Amon once and for all Kerrigan has to ascend and become a Xe'naga herself... However, is she strong enough to have that much power?
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StarCraft 2 is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and macOS. Legacy of the Void is the final expansion for StarCraft 2.
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[@joemalola05]

Sokka: my girlfriend turned into the moon... Jim: Hold my beer

[@dem1nudel214]

lol just watched that again.

[@mlemmage8449]

damn i want to watch atla again but i know i'll binge away most of my spare time

[@lorenzoherreros6641]

she should have turned into a tentacled monster....... oh well

[@Hazel-xl8in]

“my girlfriend turned into the sun”

[@Veellinn]

That's rough buddy.

[@Yatagarasu0612]

To quote my college room mate: "StarCraft 2's campaign is basically 'Jim Reynor's Life Sucks: The Video Game'."

[@lukarreon995]

Yatagarasu0612 I love how you used the single quotation marks and the period correctly. I'm in love with you. No homo, though.

[@Yatagarasu0612]

[@centurionconrad]

It gets better.

[@Kenken2244]

I just noticed that artanis is now using two blue blades again, as he left zeratul's psiblade on his grave. its a nice touch. :)

[@lukasbacik1920]

zeratul uses Warp blade

[@procrastinator3408]

Touché

[@oldoneeye7516]

Its not a Star Craft Campaign if there is no "protect Kerrigan" mission

[@markheramis7749]

its what we're all here for... to protect the best girl sarrah karegan

[@huntergman8338]

@@markheramis7749 Hm.....

[@HugoDefante]

Apparently there's oxygen everywhere around Starcraft, Raynor is always opening his helmet.

[@lukarreon995]

Hugo Defante No, he was just holding his breath this whole time.

[@TheWye]

He's the only Terran who doesn't smoke. He has very healthy lungs.

[@vietnguyenquoc9173]

@@TheWye The lungs are vital to Hamon users

[@Baleur]

I guess its not within the power of a universe-destroying dimension-creating entity like Amon to have floating void terrain with CO2 instead of Oxygen. Shrug lol

[@canebro1]

Did you notice the order? SC1 was Terran, Zerg, and Protoss; same as SC2. Brood War was Protoss, Terran, and Zerg, same as the epilogue.

[@filipm7594]

Wow, never got that :D wp

[@ourdaddysaid4019]

Dude, you blew my mind. Been playing starcraft since its release and didn't even notice that.

[@timebombboom1]

I kinda noticed that right away

[@juny9445]

Nice one.didn't notice that umtil now

[@j.f.l.bousquet1998]

So SC3 will be Zerg, Protoss, Terran?

[@elementbender1]

28:53 steals Artanis' minerals 29:07 snipes Zagara's creep tumour If this is how Lowko treats his allies, no wonder he only plays campaign and 1v1!

[@proximus1521]

elementbender1 destroy tumors,reduct creep and land Cc here. Works better then few shity pokyboys

[@MrCh0o]

Not to mention roasting some friendly marines with psionic storm...

[@borismitic5254]

Lowko treats his allies like the people in frostpunk.

[@Metalders]

Two Terran Marines talking while defending the Zerg side: "Who ever tought we would fight beside Zergs?" The screeching voice of Zagara ressonates at their left: "How about beside a friend?"

[@Lesquidliestone]

"Aye, I could do that."

[@jeru_jj1161]

Ughhhh....

[@zan831]

at least they both have orifices

[@tomassprenger7868]

This commentary is the best fucking ever

[@cringedealer3436]

Lord of the rings?

[@hijiriyukari]

Free tissues for everyone

[@gamm3r]

Lowko.. You have to start another champaign. I need these episodes in my life

[@borob.5168]

i mean... there's only Nova's campaign left, if I'm not mistaken. Not so much to start.

[@Ironmaidenportugal]

there's Mass Recall from sc2mapster(SC1 campaign on SC2)

[@noamgosselinarbaoui2649]

and its not the best one

[@AceofShadow]

There's also the Stukov/Enslaver missions for BW to play. Although someone would need to warn him to download them instead of playing them from the custom game menu as the Enslaver missions are too long and hard to play without saving.

[@ITAndroMedian]

How about something completely different? Like C&C series?

[@reyespiano945]

That SCV made it to the last missions. His death is a big deal

[@jestbone89]

Zaggara can sorta hold by herself but Artanis is totaly incompetent. This mission would make great 3 player co-op map.

[@ninja.saywhat]

yup artanis worthless and weak as fk here. might as well have karax lead the protoss in this mission.

[@proximus1521]

Same deal as with Alarak, just block his entarance, he wont charge to death and is actualy usefull with his heal

[@jestbone89]

Not the same because we were talking about his capabilities as commander, not hero.

[@MrCh0o]

I think Zagara may have died and got resurrected, though? Pretty sure her health was around 0 at one point with still enemies left around. That would explain why she's so good. But the Zerg forces are also pretty fucking OP here, I'll give you that.

[@hahashmala3047]

Yeah Zagara couold just die and be resurrected at her Hive while the Protoss just die once and never come back even when they continue talking to you as if they are here.

[@knodel2378]

to say jim´s love live is a little messy is a gross understatement. His girlfriedn basically went from cold blodded assassin to friendly ally then became zerg and mass murderer then became human again then zerg again and now God. Thats what i call character progression!

[@nqh4393]

Not to mention his former wife and son were dead too.

[@masonmccoy2173]

sounds like the story to an anime

[@007gollum8]

Narud: "Amon! What does the scanner say about her power level?!?" Amon: (Builds orbital command; scans) "It's over NINE THOUSAAAAAAND!!!"

[@sillysaili]

ok, who forgot to get the orbital command upgrade in the armory? swann?

[@cathulionetharn5139]

It wasn't forgotten, it was placed aside to be moved to the eggheads for upgrading. Ain't none of my bussiness you suddenly take the ship and warp out of the universe. You want all your gear when you need it? How bout asking if we still have it.

[@repHAWAIIxJPN]

Damn , I feel so bad for Jim . He gives his all for Kerrigan so that one day they can maybe finally be together but at every twist and turn they get pulled further and further from each other .. such a sad story 👌

[@ivanvolodkevich1254]

Well you will see what happens in the end....

[@skylark306]

No, now he will be eternally ******* a god. That's a lot of fun.

[@spencermorgan2281]

A real sad story is that Raynor use to be a fleshed out multidimensional character, and now his entire character summary begins and ends with "reunite with Kerrigan". Worse still, some people call it good; which stops Blizz writers from challenging themselves to do better.

[@hahashmala3047]

Spencer Well this is life. Even Kerrigan just became the Good Queen

[@Luhrak]

I love the moment when Artanis bows down. It just suits his character so well. And not only did Bliz manage to give me goosebumps with this one but also cut some onions near me. :‘)

[@reychop]

The protoss have always worshiped the Xel'Naga as gods (though it was just Amon that forged their religion in his attempt to control them). Still, it would be characteristic for all protoss to bow down, even when that religion was revealed to be Amon's lie.

[@Metalders]

To me his bowdown is mostly a sign of respect, for the ones that created them.

[@bowiebrewster6266]

The tal'darim must be jealous.. having been promised to ascend and stuf

[@serhatkarabeyli9818]

*A S C E N D E D*

[@Guanchen]

to go even further beyond... AHHHHahhhhhhhHHHHH

[@duderzguy1236]

super syian!

[@PartyPolice88]

Lowko is so allergic to static defense, even the ones he gets for free he destroys on purpose 😂

[@uc-cr7uq]

Party Police just to make it again lul

[@SH4D0W0733]

I still think they should've made her a c'thulu squid.

[@TheGalactimus1]

You know what im gonna miss the most? The white "wall" right behind lowkos back :(

[@Kevkoss]

That's not how I remember story of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.

[@AlRoderick]

I've played this a few times but I had never noticed that you could heal Kerrigan with medivacs.

[@Metalders]

Yeah, you learn something new everyday.

[@lMarcusl]

Before mission: the cycle must not end. End of mission: the infinite cycles have come to their end. Glad we're clear on the story Blizzard.

[@CatzyCatzy]

Then STARCRAFT 3

[@CRSB00]

this is one of thw nost difficult missions of the game

[@canebro1]

I went mass tank/viking/banchee, works pretty well. Don't forget you can pause and think, which is helpful. Planetaries are good, but I also found adding a handful of barracks at my allies base as damage buffers works well.

[@Metalders]

I can relate to that, since I'm not very good with Terran.

[@juny9445]

Yea

[@ninja.saywhat]

this is actually pretty easy and surprisingly easy for all the three prologue missions. the most difficult mission is either the all in (air) or utter darkness. some would say they're both easy, yes they are if you cheese them like in all in (air) where you simply rely on mind control and dark templar wall for utter darkness.

[@Skylair95]

The hardest mission for me was the last Nova covert ops mission. Damn i hate that Xanthos.

[@Keln02]

Lowko... Did I see you cry there during the cutscene? :p Well. I did too. As a long story came to an end.

[@matisowaty4346]

ya me too i mean the whole story is soo beautiful

[@justinmyhan4419]

i did. :'(

[@NinjaAdorable]

I shed some tears as well.... Jim's story is.... Complicated, but it can be relatable, sweet and even tragic.

[@kenanriley968]

XD i saw it to man but its ok

[@JotaDeeMeO]

So... the merc building is just for decoration?... Or is Lowko blindness just as sharp as ever?

[@Tang0Fox1]

He used it once. Lol

[@bueno6895]

Its 4am, was suppose to sleep but then i saw this...

[@o0NeoTDN0o]

Same.😐

[@vladfilatov6903]

CLASSIC LOWKO BLINDESS MAKING 3 ENGINEERING BAYS TO UPGRADE

[@TheCaptainCrack]

"VEGETA! What does the scouter say about his powerlevel???" -ITS........ 1006... "wha?! really?" -yea kick his ass! "wait wait wait NAPPA! I had the scouter upside down, its over 9000!"

[@allanlyndon9893]

This cant get any worse....GEEEEETAAAAAA

[@davidjapuntich3860]

I’m going to miss yelling “Build more static defense!” at my computer screen.

[@matisowaty4346]

Lowko do you even know that Jim had a child and a wife before Sahra?

[@fazanac7694]

Jim not have familly before Sarah K.

[@matisowaty4346]

Yes he had, her name was Liddy and they had a son togather named John

[@user-iv4cn8rd7t]

and his child was "gifted". You can find the story in "Liberty's Crusade. You can find the name in "PERDITION'S CROSSING". us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/lore/short-stories/perditions-crossing/1

[@juny9445]

😨.shocker

[@dronewars7186]

Xelnaga are almost dead right so if jim and Kerrigan are together and will make more Xelnaga children all will be fixed xD

[@a_lexine]

xel'naga-human hybrids dont really... work.

[@Jacobstx]

If it was that easy for the Xel'naga to procreate, they wouldn't need the purity of form and purity of essence. These guys seed entire universes with life and wait billions of years, just to have offspring. Human seed won't cut it compared to that.

[@fazanac7694]

To get answer on this wait for cinematic in last episode !

[@theonebutcher677]

... All Xel Naga ARE Hybrids... That's the whole point, Kerrigan is a human Zerg Hybrid, that's why she could ascend. She could uplift your psychic potential, borrow some notes from Abathur, make a quick trip to Zerus to purify your essence and up you go.

[@theonebutcher677]

But humans have purity of form, that's the point of this epilogue, it wasn't the protoss who were destined to ascent, that was Amon's meddling(He wanted a Khala and an Overmind to enslave the next generation of Xel'Naga), it was humanity and the Primal Zerg.

[@NewTypeDilemma01]

32:32 Ouros: "Kerrigan, I don't feel too good, anymore." But, hey. Raynor's girlfriend is now _extremely_ hot! Hehe...

[@skylark306]

ETERNALLY HOT (literally hot, will grill you alive)

[@dronewars7186]

How you know?

[@puki860]

lmao

[@TheOnlyEpsilonAlpha]

Imagine if he makes her mad >.>

[@benedictborje86]

ASCENZONED JIM!

[@MrChuckPrime]

Holy moly i've played StarCraft 2 over and over again and still....... A incredible amazing game! I look forward to the last mission, on brutal, it's gonna be a hell of a ride😎

[@beelx-dragons8262]

Go get them and good luck

[@georgewilliamgutarracampos6262]

Poor Raynor. He had lost a son and a wife before he lost Kerrigan.

[@deldalus]

I did this mission aiming for master archive. Well, Planetary Fortress actually did good as a wall because enemies will focus on it and it tanky enough with 4-5 SCVs repairing them. Air Terran also nice too, Banshee came with little wave attack also with viking with super long range to kills some air stuff.

[@Stiggandr1]

Lowko, having difficulty defending the top ramp of a static location. *salvages fully upgraded bunker.

[@borischan5252]

"the cycle must continue" "the cycles have come to their end". wat?

[@mikepliek]

29:07 for some reason this cracks me up all the time XD lowko being a surgent killing the creep tumor

[@knifed91]

33:13 Artanis: She is... xel'naga... Me: She is... topeless...

[@lesnovel1993]

Xel'Naga: How come you dont have tentacles...Like me?!! WHY?!!

[@perrycarters3113]

33:50 I saw you feelin' the feels there, Mr. Lowko.

[@KanzRedDusk]

What a ride it's being. Close to an end, but I'm glad I've been here watching along. Thank you Lowko for the good moments. And I'll see you... in the last one.

[@lalalolo3636]

LOWKOOO I SAW YOUR RED EYES, LET THE TEARS GO MAN

[@colonelh1875]

"Not enough minerals" Lowko: "Very good"

[@richardross1166]

I really enjoyed your commentary and game play on a mission I enjoyed

[@HaploidCell]

Turtle-ing Terran Time! Now all those defense structure upgrades are going to come in handy.

[@vibingwiththewind2889]

The one thing I wish Blizzard had done with these epilogues is save all the choices made about army compositions across all three campaigns and these compositions are the ones you used - its an actual coming together of all the campaigns.

[@vali_engill3154]

Im all so emotional watching the story unfold

[@KataokaTTV]

I had zero issues with the Zerg and Protoss portions of the epilogue on Brutal, but this mission in particular, I kept getting wiped over and over and over again.

[@asdfghnbful]

Love the Long campaign videos cause I get to watch more Lowko. :D

[@yosefshemesh5246]

I got goosebumps in places i didnt know i could get goosebumps

[@Kaitn13]

2:37 Anyone else noticed that little emotional warble in Raynors voice? I love that voice acting and general atmosphere Blizzard did on this! :D

[@garrettreven5144]

And so the Xelnaga were reborn. With the purity of essence: the Zerg. And the purity of form: HUMAN!?!?

[@mattp2788]

Purity of form = psionics

[@garrettreven5144]

Purity of FORM would be a static, unchanging strong body. All 3 races have psionics. The Protoss were destined to be 1/2 of the Xelnaga, but it ended up being Zerg and Terran (Kerrigan)

[@mattp2788]

the zerg don't have psionics. and the zerg are the purity of essence due to their ability to take essence. I don't think the purities where meant to be taken literary.

[@Csizi90]

Matt P They have, this is their main form of communication

[@hahashmala3047]

I highly disagree on it being their main form of communication kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6ikf6qOptmljaM

[@arfirik]

men, when transcending into gods: unhumanly shapes, will probably be like a ball of light women, when transcending into gods(even space alien gods): naked wings lady

[@jkobain]

30:46 Medivac pilot: Mayday! Mayday! Lowko: That's okay, that's okay, that's okay!

[@hn4068]

26:45 Kerrigan: the cosmos lies within my grasp SCV: argh ... you're scaring me!

[@hoangpham1515]

RIGHTTTTTTT THROUGH THE FEELS

[@redadmiral4247]

3:28 men ı can listen this all day long you are the men lowko keep it up!

[@dimitrialphonso1727]

Because the enemy sends no detection what I did on this mission was trained a bunch of specters and made a wall with them on every entrance to the base. Because banelings can still kill your specters its a good idea to get some medics as well and once you have all your specter walls established you can build some turrets because air is your only threat now.

[@zZirai]

That cutscene all ways gets me. 😭

[@loreguru3083]

Fun fact, the main campaign followed the pattern of the original game (Starts with Terran, ends with Protoss) while the epilogue "expansion" follows the pattern of the Brood War expansion (Starts with Protoss, ends with Zerg). It all comes full circle and that's a detail I love.

[@Blade-Waltz]

Love how Artanis kneels before Kerrigan, he now sees her as a xel'naga and not the primal queen of blades.

[@nicholasfactor]

he kneeled before orous dying lol

[@tillyfingers3266]

This is one of my favorite missions. I never make planetary fortresses but on this map i build them like bunkers all over the place.

[@alexandercarlosandresramir2909]

32:14 calm dowm Simmond xD

[@Berek71182]

Hi Lowko, thx for the entertaining video. Lets spare you same time for the next mission, the most and only effectiv Units for the next mission are: 1. many ULTRALISK, ULTRALISK, ULTRALISK : You need ARMOR, massive Armor. Don't waste time with other ground units other than Ultralisk (and rochas) for attacking. Kerrigan can heal them up. 2. Corruptor or Muta for Anti Air Battles. The Muta can help defend your base, Corruptor are more effectiv overall, but require a litte more static defense for your base, while the Ultralisk clean the map.

[@ev3rnight356]

You make jokes about your old RuneScape days. And here I am playing it as I'm watching the video

[@meeqsb3521]

For those struggling with this mission. Kerrigans % completed acts as the missions triggers, so you want to use kerrigan as much as possible as not only is it less enemies you have to fight but also gives you more time in between waves to set up your defenses. Other than that just build Siegetank - planetary fortress and missile turret with about 4-5 SCVs at each finished ramp you are defending. Just keep Kerrigan Que'd and keep building stuff along with armory upgrades you should get it easily.

[@alevel100onix5]

''The cosmos lies within my grasp'' ''We dont know what that means'' -Lowko 2018 How could you not know what it means??

[@sunnc2305]

Lucio Main especially if you you love starcraft lore and multiplayer.

[@MrCh0o]

I mean, there are a few ways to interpret that, and pretty sure it wasn't the most literal one here :)

[@valaquenta7]

Did you guys notice at 2:52 that Artanis has two blue Psi-Blades again? It is because he left Zeratuls Warp-Blade at his grave in the end of the main campaign.

[@ghoraxe9000]

27:00 Nobody knows what it means....but it's provocative.... Gets the people going!

[@nicholasawakuni3272]

Every time Lowko salvages a bunker I die a little.

[@Artas1984]

All you need is banshees!!! Void entities have no detection, i found banshees to be extremely useful here. Add viking support to quickly drop down carriers, brood lords and cruisers and that's the key to victory. I found battlecruisers not really useful here - they are too slow to react to 3 different locations and they do not deal damage fast enough.

[@Salchipapafied]

The overabundance of tentacles on those Xel'naga dudes does not suggest they are, in fact, the apex of evolution as they claim to be.

[@lukarreon995]

Jonathan Hopfenblatt What are you talking about? Tentacles are the symbol of evolutionary superiority. You haven't watched enough hentai, have you?

[@hahashmala3047]

They do not claim to be the apex of evolution and their eyes are misplaced cause they just cover the same area. They just claim to be the first to be (like there was no life before them)

[@longanhngocfamily5851]

after she absorbed all the essen, she became a titan lol

[@Baleur]

Isn't it fortunate that this alternate dimension of a seperate universe, has minerals and vespene gas so we can continue producing our traditional 3d armies of steel and iron? How nice of Amon to facilitate that. He could have just made the void an actual void, devoid of any resources or even the ability for 3d physicality to exist in any form, and be 100% safe from everything apart from other psionic entities. But no, nice guy he is, chose to manifest a world where 3d armies from the "real world" can do damage to him. Thanks!

[@lemonlord1594]

Dispite watching the whole campaign the second time. Mah emotions still kicks me very hard

[@remyyin1561]

I sense a tear coming 33:46

[@KobraLA]

And Legacy is fulfilled in next episode. :)

[@OneReallyGrumpyJill]

Kinda feel bad for Raynor. I mean, he is just a hooman who wanted to save his gf. And then he got pulled into this ultra adventure. Like, humans weren't even suppose to be there to begin with.

[@loltroll7746]

lowko, did you know, when you hold-position cloacked ghosts or specters (with the upgrae, that removes the energy-cost of cloacking) and the enemy has no detection you can bug out the AI and just shoot at the units from a distance and block the ramp.

[@tragedyofwind]

I just notice it mirror the starcraft 1 campaign. Terran->zerg->protoss, and then Protoss->terran->Zerg.

[@wschmrdr]

Keeps salvaging that left bunker... just waiting for him to get to the point where they show up there...

[@ethan177]

27:28 "I think she's been drinking"

[@paint_black]

my favorite youtube-series are goin' to finish. now that's a pitty(( and kerrigan won't become blobby-like flying cthulhu, that's a pitty too..probably)

[@crox-309]

Lowko almost cried

[@alexmel6306]

Lowko, really love your content, found your channel when you were playing through the SC1 campaign. As you are running out of SC2 missions to play, I have a suggestion for you what some of us would want to see. There are the Stukov/Enslaver missions from Brood War that you didn't play. I hope that you see this. Have a nice day and don't forget to smile :) P.S. Sorry for bad English.

[@NoTLucas]

Dude this is such a cool series, I wish I had the skills to complete it myself xD

[@markheramis7749]

insert meme: "am i the only one around here who closed hentai to see @LowkoTV protect Kareggan?"

[@silenthero2795]

The latest book in the Star Craft lore revealed that Artanis was pretty much salty why Kerrigan was chosen and not the protoss to ascend into xel'naga. A horrible zerg and primitive terran hybrid got the chance to be what the protoss thought was their destiny.

[@harveydelara5109]

Kerrigan can still be with jim pretty sure cause we did see the xel'naga can turn into any form

[@bluechipmunk1225]

Lowko you really gottta read Heaven's Devils, the book. It explains a lot of the backstory on Jim before sc1 and his days with Tychus. After reading that you'll surely say that he's had an even more rough life haha

[@Gajet9]

I love how lowko was overloaded with multitasking and keeps asking same question over and over: "Am I using kerrigan too much?"

[@markrl9963]

Who knew a game about space marines aliens and space magic could make me cry 😭

[@kacchanteh6532]

Lowko planet fotress rushing Amon xD

[@SentiMax]

Lowko... your the best!

[@Jamelinium]

I was so moved on episode's ending cutscene, that I almost cried ;_;