StarCraft 2: PRO 2v2 - Serral, Maru, Solar & Oliveira! (Best-of-7)

[@TMcGlynn100]

if I don't have 90 minutes now I will later in the week and will save the video for then, don't hesitate to post a good match because of play time these 2v2's are amazing!

[@stepanpicka]

Play it one 1.5 speed :-) still good at that speed

[@ingrudmessenger1193]

That's what i often do with longer videos too. Or i overestimate myself, start one late and have to finish it the next morning... i'm fine with both though :)

[@traviswolszon1476]

That’s a great point. Travis…

[@SquintyGears]

@@stepanpicka 2x is the only way i live. But also it's unfortunate that for lowko even if we do watch it later it does tank the analytics and that does have an impact on other videos' performance.

[@H4ppsy]

@@SquintyGears really ? how to know ?

[@mikegarcia9346]

Please more 2V2 Lowko. They're my favorite matches, all the extra strategy and chaos, it's great.

[@albertobombelli2662]

2v2 are amazing!

[@b4hangmansnoose765]

Also, more viewership in “small” channels might snowball into bigger prize packages at tournaments and more pros playing them.

[@althair7720]

YES ! 2vs2 pro games were so intense back at the time ! Glade it still the case !

[@rickmedinac]

You are the coolest commentator in SCII. Great voice, energy, ego in check, really fun watching your videos.

[@LowkoTV]

Thank you!

[@glados4765]

I'd love to see a ByuN & Maru vs other teams. The salt must flow.

[@samtux762]

Crappy commentary. Lovko talked about all kind of random stuff, but the match. This is like a commentator talking about how well he pissed this morning instead of commenting soccer finals.

[@danielandersson7485]

You have the voice, you combine a natural calmness with yet an obvious passion for the game, and you take yourself with that grain of salt, and for that Mr you just got yourself a new subscriber! 😎👍

[@LowkoTV]

Thank you Daniel!

[@tarotdactyl752]

"I know that not everyone necessarily has that long to watch videos all day" I love your longer videos! Best of threes are often spoiled by the end of the first game by looking at the timestamp. I like to watch the videos over the span of a couple days sometimes so I definitely like the longer format. Great video! Love the 2v2 content

[@sheauwn6974]

Loving the 2v2 coverage Hamster! Keep that content wheel spinning ;^)

[@stalwart56k]

that comment about "people" changing their names to Hamster made me laugh ;) Lowko claims he watches every Harstem video, at least to Artosis in rank roulet

[@dannes22]

ByuN & Maru vs Serral and Reynor would be fun! And overall I really enjoy the long matches!

[@Toshinben]

Or ByuN & Reynor vs Serral & Maru. Micro vs macro. Protoss nowhere to be seen.

[@acehughj4527]

@@Toshinben reynor and maru can both play Protoss to mix things up too.. and in series they probably will too.

[@N0noy1989]

Serral and Oliveira's strategy is for Oliveira to sacrifice his early game for Serral's safety. Maru noticed this and kept targeting Oliveira. This games shows just how powerful Serral is. Solar is 4th best Zerg, yet the gap is so huge in their gameplay.

[@codenamegnetne8209]

Just shows how terrifying Serral's Macro Zerg is.

[@uclatimsta]

The game when serral held fire on the lurkers, waited for the full surround and absolutely crushed the joint army of Maru and Solar was an absolute master class. Up to that point they were behind nearly the entire game. Just incredible to watch.

[@namanhnguyenhoang2695]

4 proclaimed rank 1 competitive each other , this is the best day of my life

[@Jdog-tt8qe]

Serral and Olivera had some epic army movement and teamwork in the 2nd and 3rd game especially. That was fun to watch

[@gms02]

Fantastic video, have been watching this match-by-match intermittently for the past few hours, in between cooking and playing other games. Love your voice and game knowledge, very good camerawork and commentary on the micro/macro splits as well! I know precious little about game strategies so hearing you say what should and shouldn't be done when the players do different build orders is so lovely.

[@kkrypto1894]

this was awesome. there was character of players, strategic thinking, constant action. perfect match to watch!

[@andrewwood1364]

2v2 is my favorite game mode, always here for this

[@Spartsou]

an hour long B-O-7 2v2?? yes please!! Thanks, Lowko, hope your skiing trip was excellent!

[@LHles948]

"Take me down to the emerald city, where the grass is green and the zerg are pretty!!"

[@Dropbaer8665]

Yes we have bears in Switzerland. There are also a couple of them in the capitol, in a place called "Bärengraben". I hope you enjoyed your stay in Switzerland! Have been watching your videos for years. Thanks for the good work!

[@CKPill]

That was alot of fun, Thanks Lowko

[@BirdBrotherGames]

2v2 matches are super tight to watch! Hope to see a few more casts from this event

[@Zamiroh]

Breaking news: a polar bear from a local zoo in Switzerland got loose. Lowko fell off a mountain while skiing, and instead of hitting the ground instead landed smack dab on that escaped bear, and broke his ankle in the process. In spite, the bear did eat him. Feeling bad about the situation, the bear, named lowfrost, will be taking over the channel. He expects to start new videos by the end of the month. Rip lowko, long live lowfrost.

[@rafaelrafa9397]

Lowko, even without time we watch the games. I have a lot of fun watching your videos here in Brazil, in my opinion you are the best commentator. Please put more 2vs2 matches

[@b4hangmansnoose765]

I always come back and finish these epic long best of 7 videos. Would love to see more!! There seems to be so much more diversity of strategy when the players have so many opportunities for cheese vs macro.

[@korihor9161]

Thanks for always delivering fun and great casting lowko! My favorite part of 2v2 is the races completing each other!

[@toastytofu1402]

The obvious recommendation would be the DPG/Seliveira bo9 finals. I do kind of recommend watching the live cast version of some of these games anyway if only to see how cheerful the players looked in their web cams and also the occasional team chat you could hear. Serral's "I am very poor now" line was particularly excellent.

[@McmMacky]

Hi Lowko.. As one of your lurking viewers here who comes and go now and then in your channel and with your videos, I want to let you know I appreciate your content, long or not as long as they are interesting games in your opinion. I know not every match is gonna be 10/10 but as long as its entertaining and exciting enough in your opinion, I will watch them if I have the time and need for good SCII matches.

[@McmMacky]

Also, I am one of those who does not skip or NOT finish your videos, I tend to watch until at least gg is called. Just to let you know that there are a few of us who appreciates what you do regardless of what the stats from YT show.

[@maximesavard-beaudoin560]

sometimes i comment but forget to press like~ thanks for reminding me fr This matchup is POGGERS THANK YOU LOWKO :D as for ideal time of your casts, ideally for me is always at least a 20+ min game everyday from proplayers (im disapointed when i see sub/viewer submitted games when i come home from work, maybe when u do a sub viewer cast you could do it live / 1 take and do a pro player game 15mins ish so i got something to watch everyday :D) Id love to see a 1h+ game every week or two, maybe tagged differently so i can browse them separatly

[@itsnyy8079]

35:35 Lowko has a secret fear of bears lol

[@Shindetsuku]

Love to see some 2v2 goodness! Really enjoying your casts in general. Haven't followed a dedicated caster since Husky, back in the day.

[@petito1054]

Top players bming is the equivalent of Gordon Ramsay telling a top tier chef that he sucks.

[@wernerchile]

2vs2 is the best starcraft! i Like the caos and the unintenden mistakes the pr0 makes! Keep it coming Lowko!

[@ErenisRanitos]

there are indeed some crazy builds on above 2 players! I remember how I've got together a group of 4 and we went into 4v4, all Terran. 3 of us went quadruple rax marine rush 1 of us went double rax marauder rush we won 10 games in a row and mined so much salt I am still using it in my cooking even after a year after the games.

[@ErenisRanitos]

still using that mines salt. it just ain't running out!

[@ehk5948]

2v2s are so fun and chaotic. I was curious per aligulac stats Serral and Time's average rating is 3198 and Maru and Solar's is 3233.5 as of the day this video was posted. So that's a really close match up basically almost all of the top ten have a wider gap between them. I was thinking that Time being on Serral's team would be really unfair for Serral, but honestly averaging things out it appears that he should be a large enough handicap to make the game competitive. And since the game went the distance that was apparently correct. I'm not sure if it exists, but I want to see Serral and Reynor vs Maru and Byun. 3392.5 vs 3396. That should be a match up for the ages. 3.5 difference lol. Plus the two best Zergs and Europeans vs the two best Terrans and Koreans. Would be one hell of a game.

[@N0noy1989]

Serral and Reynor suck in team games, from the past Archon and 2v2 games I've seen of them. They're too individualistic. There was an Archon game back then with Serral, Reynor, and one other Zerg in the same team and they lost a few times vs a lower ranked team. Serral and Time works because TIme is supporting Serral, with Serral the carry of the team. I doubt if Serral and Reynor would work well at all.

[@ehk5948]

@@N0noy1989 Well for my theoretic game I'm going to assume all 4 players will put some practice time in to learn how to play 2v2 together.

[@schippes24]

@@N0noy1989 but isnt archon basicly 1v1 with 2players each playing one race? i'm not sure you can compare these games properly since it's another different mode. But i do like your take on the whole team thing and 2 top individualistic players unable to work properly together :)

[@acehughj4527]

Kinda crazy how time is now for a moment the best of the world, beating Maru Her0 and Reynor and becoming champion

[@ehk5948]

@@acehughj4527 Yup wild. Never saw that coming. Really cool though.

[@jonathanmartin2480]

This video is 69 minutes, very nice. That Serral hold fire was epic.

[@andyshin29]

Love seeing the 2v2s. Awesome commentary

[@Slebonson]

I love this 2v2 so much going on all the time it's mind blowing!!!

[@kalitor]

HamsterTV would be a great channel for Professional Starcraft 2. Particularly, if it was an actual hamster doing the casting, but voiced by Lowko. Want to see it!

[@WaterCrane]

I actually hope there will be more 2v2 tournaments in the future - they are brilliantly chaotic and fun to watch with so many different possible team combinations (e.g. Phoenix/Viking, zerg units being healed by Medivacs or running under a Guardian Shield etc.). There is possibly a horrible imbalance, but it's hard to pinpoint what without games at the highest level.

[@RandolphTheWhite1]

That sudden quit by Maru and your background laughter was priceless

[@alicederyn]

"You're on your own time" did you even mean to make this pun? 🤣

[@gsus3918]

We are happy to watch longer videos. Don't hesitate to post them.

[@Tillallare1]

Nothing better to start off my morning than watching Lowkos video

[@phlanxsmurf]

That was awesome to watch!

[@rescueparamedic2821]

Been waiting for this one!!!

[@crystaldazz]

You're right, I don't have an extra hour... for the unimportant things in my life. *sits down for an hour*

[@Maurodax]

Some sick games! Really well played from both sides!

[@howie5697]

I watch Lowko every day. Super good. Thank you.

[@Mystyx-Sama]

I've always thought that having map hazards would be a cool idea and add some much needed "spark" to every game, maybe even weather effects too. That huge anti-air turret at 38:25 just makes me want it more.

[@isit1152]

Thank you very muchhh for the 2v2 :p

[@benjamineidam]

Love to see this format! And Serrals GOAT2-Build! 😁

[@festeredhobo1249]

Long videos are the best to listen to while falling asleep tbh

[@kennixpro]

I love 2V2 Lowko, it requires more strategy , more skill so fun and chaotic to watch btw, I really enjoying your casts have a good day

[@hampoof6087]

I enjoyed watching free for all matches when you casted those a few years back. (I've been watching for a few years now and I thought I would finally sub :)

[@meander112]

Hooray for 2v2!

[@nightmareTomek]

23:36 "In 2vs2 you're doing the worst thing a Starcraft player wants to do. That is thinking." xD True. And that's also why Starcraft 2 isn't more popular. Not every player just wants matches to be decided on hand-eye-coordination.

[@N0noy1989]

On the point of sharing minerals, there's a game with Serral/Oliveira vs Rikka/Firefly I think where Rikka and Firefly pass resources to each other. But that as mostly because they couldn't dispose of it fast enough as they were getting destroyed. Serral and Oliveira do have a build where Serral builds an extractor for Oliveira for a faster reaper rush.

[@yourdataispublic]

A month late here but plz do more 2v2 games Lowko. They're absolutely packed with action and chaotic, making them more fun to watch

[@marzix427]

This was a fun one.

[@manyfails]

what in heaven is this massiv treat for us i just love it , lowko best greetings from germany ruhrpot

[@eeaglllee]

1:06:51 comical lurker

[@aurith01]

same, def gunna finish watching later

[@elvin4464]

Always share games your interested in lowko! Especially goodness like this!!

[@DioBrando-qi9so]

13:50 shots fired

[@strainrx]

this was a great one

[@Jbn0s0rus]

"Momentarily" is the new "slowly but surely" 😄

[@Jbn0s0rus]

What a series. So refreshing.

[@minhsmindtv]

Absolutely love these videos from Hamster!

[@sebastianvergara8175]

2v2s are sick

[@nobod354]

2v2>>>>>>>1v1 by far. wish the rest of the community agreed

[@markg.1105]

I know it has been commented already, but just to emphasize it. 2vs2 are amazing and very entertaining to watch, would be awesome if you could get your hands on more replays. I like the longer play time too, more Lowko content is good stuff :) Also, I think 2vs2 low league matches might be funny to watch, pure chaos :D

[@kevinnowak6992]

Thats right lowko thinking is the reason why teamgames are way much more difficult than 1v1

[@seanirvin7157]

So idk your analytics but these 2v2 casts seem pretty popular.. and I personally love them. More please 🥺 *edit* I know 'pros' don't play as much 2v2 but there are highly skilled players that play a lot of 2v2, and are maybe even better at that particular meta than the pros. Maplez, rocker, meomaika, astrea, practicex are all people I find myself playing against in the 2v2 ladder. Revive 2v2!!

[@maximesavard-beaudoin560]

WOW lowko you made videos in advance D:

[@appo9357]

1:36 True fans of yours would make the time. 😎

[@brimbrim5389]

13:52 how dare Lowko insult Harstem's editor lol

[@veekay391]

24:00 I play sc2 to get into games where I think. Playing as a robot doing timings is something for the droids

[@johnpaulgaviola3076]

This is so exciting. ❤️

[@danielgalvez7953]

i love the maps. they look so cool. And so big.

[@LordChaos36]

Love 2v2!

[@hanshaperle6075]

I always watch your videos when i eat. Pause them when i am done eating.

[@rustyisded6019]

I'm a recent sub and sc2 fan so I'm going back through all your vids and I love the long ones

[@MonkeyMD3]

What is the ultimate synergistic combo for 2v2? I mean what 2 races go the best together and boost each other?

[@Nay-yr5wj]

Hello! Great work as usual and lovely commentary! I couldn't help but ponder, but are they playing using voice-com?

[@markyates2100]

Yes more 2v2s plz. U kept missing all the fights in game 3.. I love ur casts tho man keep em comin!

[@tzakman8697]

this was so fun!

[@MathewMartin-gn5wp]

Lowko u been having a lot of "senior moments" lately.... Hopefully you feeling better after your holiday. Nice to see another 2v2, nice amount of chaos. Also nice to see what maru or serral do when they don't have "full" control. btw can you please do some more archon matches soon.

[@1lomi901]

I wish we had a log somewhere that says who gave what ressources to his ally Great video anyway, keep em coming !

[@derekeyler2634]

Love the 2v2 games. If any more games available for the tournament would love to see them. I’m sure it would a challenge to cast (but also sure you are up to it) to see a viewer submitted team game.

[@glassberg5018]

I would love to see a Pro Team Game meta evolve, like Mass Medivac to heal up waves of Ultralisks

[@michaelfleming8451]

Great Video as always mate, but 32:37... might have to annunciate your D's a bit more Lowko Haha. What were the Siege Tanks rolling over? hahahaha

[@fdcrat]

About 10:00, Lowko mentions that the strength of these players are lower in team mode. In my experience that's true, but the mmr standards of the game seem to be way lower. I'm just barely in D3 in 1v1, but I'm close to D2, 500 mmr higher, in 2v2. That in spite of probably playing worse in 2v2 with 50 games of practice compared to maybe 1000 games of 1v1.

[@Zamiroh]

I wish you could have shown the cameras. They were having such a good time during this match!

[@mho...]

4:34 ....when the grass is green & the drones are pretty?! 🤔

[@felipe30381]

on the creep spread, 2v2 is already A LOT to deal with. twice the unit counters, more fights, bigger maps, combos like scan into nydus you're not used to, etc. spreading creep is just another thing to deal with. add that there's a zerg on the other side that's also getting a movement speed buff and it's an easy thing to just let go of in the match

[@icecream6256]

I was wishing the pro players would share resources and control over each other's units. This, as lowko's said feels more like a 2 1v1s rather rhan 2v2, couple months ago there were another 2v2 series which scarlet played there, and in that game her team had proper, and fun 2v2 strats. They also looked like they had a great teamwork

[@boreduser12]

The best way for 2v2 to win quickly, imo, would probably be if only player 1 builds tech and production buildings, does not expand, nor builds more than 22 workers, and their team mate player 2 is basically just expanding to give the money to player 1. Player 1's army should, I think, then, far exceed the opponents combined army in the early game.

[@cmoneyuser]

lol something silly like hamster, subtle poke from the rank roulette champ

[@jamescheng494]

Legendary gameee

[@maquabear5242]

Maru and Solar are outnumbered by three against two! They're fighting against Time, Serral and Olivera!

[@ozthebeeman]

I still don't know why, but yellow and orange zerglings trigger my tryptophobia, but no other zergling colour

[@twavee]

Suggestion if you can, could you show unit composition occasionally?