StarCraft 2 FIGHT CLUB (Extreme Quality) - Ep. 3

Watch huge A.I. armies battle it out in the StarCraft 2 Legacy of the Void Fight Club. Can you predict the winner of each round?
In Episode 3 of the Fight Club, Banelings, Marauders, Mothership, Archons (Archon Toilet), Battlecruisers, Ghosts, Ultralisks, Predators, Marines, Zealots, Zerglings, Widow Mines, the Zerg Army and the Protoss Army fight AI battles in the Fightclub arena. Thumbnail: 1000 Banelings
Timestamps:
0:00 Fight 1
1:07 Fight 2
2:15 Fight 3
4:20 Fight 4
5:30 Fight 5
6:50 Fight 6
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[@StuGames]

As always, make sure to select the highest quality setting that works for you to make the video look much better!

[@douglasthompson1724]

Thanks for the video Stu.

[@deucey89]

love these!

[@n7gamingcitadel381]

Now if you think about it Stu stands for Something Unique

[@NateBrotzman]

More SC2 fight club plz!

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

This was an IMPRESSIVE display of visual quality. How did you achieve it?

[@EndarkenShrine]

What is this Marauder so happy about? he just witnessed 999 of his mates getting massacred.

[@StuGames]

He's happy that he still has five fingers!

[@warsword4]

Three on one hand, two on the other.

[@Anergyne]

Just another day in the Dominion military.

[@sadkat9162]

He just saw the biggest explosion in his life

[@rjhogan07]

Longest continuous explosion of his life: witnessed. Still alive: yes Still has five fingers: also yes. Not a Marine, so slightly more likely to live through the next battle, therefore being able to use this as a story to get free drinks: confirmed. Really not seeing why he should be upset, his day is perfect.

[@JKRevanBR]

That archon toilet was the thing of the utmost purity of form

[@anatolgutsch6198]

how did the Mothership do that? What ability was that? Need to get my skills back up to standard, I guess...

[@TheRogueminator]

@@anatolgutsch6198 They sadly haven't been able to for a LONG time, like 11 years.... The Black Hole ability was removed way back in WOL, because it was too OP, could be used like this.

[@Dubs22005]

did the black hole do dmg? or was that blackhole plus psionic storm

[@JKRevanBR]

@@Dubs22005 iirc, the black hole doesnt do damage, but clumps them all in the same spot where the archon aoe did the trick

[@bananian]

@@TheRogueminator It's vortex! Blackhole is the demo ability, which sadly isn't in the game!

[@SimplyDuker]

That Marauder being the sole survivor of the massacre hits me in the feel. Imagine being in his shoes.

[@anthonyautumns5865]

That last Marauder probably has Survivor's Guilt PTSD.

[@some_shitposting_idiot3023]

Most terran infantry are convicts who most likely have little emotional connection to other people

[@user-fg5ss1gu1n]

@@some_shitposting_idiot3023 но мародеры нет, у них в истории написанно что в мародеры брали военных со стажем, а в огнеметчиков брали преступников.

[@bleflar9183]

@@some_shitposting_idiot3023 Not most of them im pretty sure, a lot of them are but not most. Except firebats ofc.

[@moawik4864]

Imagine being in the shoes of one of his comrades

[@WJen8]

Lmao that poor creature that got shot by the marauder was probably all "AH wtf bruv I just wanted to watch, the hell did I ever do to you?!"

[@braind34d13]

No witnesses...

[@keamu8580]

@@braind34d13 There's only ONE way to keep a secret... make sure no one is left that knows.

[@hardshake7324]

The Marauder was like"Boom Baby"

[@Yosarion44]

Uhh no i think it just went *splat*

[@zes7215]

wrgg

[@InfoRanker]

Omg that last Marauder has 1 hell of a story to tell his kids.

[@lifestarse136]

Achievement Unlocked: Last Survivor.

[@wanderhillen2435]

That was WAY closer than I thought.

[@sethraelthebard5459]

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

[@zes7215]

no such thing as have or stox or et,c cepuxuax, outx, can outx any nmw and any s perfx

[@darthvader3936]

The movie ANTZ

[@WarmasterSidious]

The choke point is such a determining factor to the strength of these troops

[@paratrooper508]

yeah I feel like these are heavily tilted towards whoever benefits the most from the choke point

[@ZillaTheTegu]

It made all of these battles very predictable. Is there a choke point? Yes? Zerg loses. All those Ultras getting Sniped, almost made me cry.

[@Earthboundmike]

Those ultras were boned either way. They can't get the surface area they need even with a full surround. They'd probably have been sniped about as bad really.

[@itzaleaf405]

@@paratrooper508 Yeah, with the protoss army at the end is a great example of that with the shield barriers from the sentires just cutting off all the zerg melee at the start of the round...

[@MainTopmastStaysail]

Or lack of one, in the case of the Zealots vs Mines. If they'd sent those boys in 1 at a time at first they'd have a much better survival rate.

[@insomnia20422]

Fight 1 Me: "This is not even gonna be close. Easy marauder win." After 20 seconds: "Told you, not even close." 😅👍

[@NeoStorm123]

The choke point is what let the banes almost win

[@zes7215]

wrr

[@artstsym]

For those wondering about "archon toilet," archons do splash damage in a pretty small area, up to 100% in an extremely tiny point. Normally it'd be impossible for that many units to be that close together, but vortex almost does the job with fliers (the few fractions of a second they had to push apart meant that a few lucky BC survived the first volley). Or rather, as noted by the epitaph, it USED to.

[@fehmeh6292]

That Marauder is unfortunately EVERYONE'S work emergency contact. His phone gunna blowup.

[@HighMojo]

That Ursadon that was just observing being killed by the Marauder was totally uncalled for.

[@Bronawix]

Someone's PC got an upgrade! That was awesome! Glad to see you back doing Starcraft stuff!

[@Kroepoek82]

This was INSANE! you put so much work into it. Loved it. Super quality. I wish the big streamers would pick up on your series.

[@Urono]

Got all of them correct ^^ the bane vs marauder one was way too close for comfort Keep up the amazing work stu!

[@keamu8580]

I have to wonder if the marauders actually killed many of the banelings. Due to the flight time of their grenades I bet a lot of their damage is wasted on banelings that explode on purpose before they die.

[@Sunless1337]

@@keamu8580 Most the the banelings died to their suiciding (the vast majority). If the Yeti hadn't been there at the start, I think another 20-30 marauders would have survived, though.

[@keamu8580]

@@Sunless1337 I am glad we can agree that the Yeti had a non-zero effect on this battle!

[@mikelee9552]

I think it would have been less closer if marauders did not waste their health with steam pack. But I could be wrong.

[@cursedhawkins1305]

@@mikelee9552 I don't think it would have mattered if they had stims or not because the banelings still would have died from another's suicide blast, that's the con of having multiple banelings targeting a single unit if one goes off, they all go off.

[@Nighthawk20000]

Wasn't expecting the absolutely flawless blink micro to save that protoss army haha

[@simonsoupshark8009]

i mean they also had the cost advantage if they had been closer in price zerg would have won i think

[@PRFxSniper]

@@simonsoupshark8009 yes zerg op confirmed

[@botakman3610]

The sentries using force field while the colossi killed the banelings was quite smart to

[@Joshua-yf5mh]

Watching the end of fight 6 with the Stalkers was pretty cool. Watching them get pushed back trying to blink away from the broodlings and locust, then to push forward once the current wave was killed.

[@yipshingho1510]

It's a micro strategy, the front ones blink away when shields depleted, recharge in the back. Rince and repeat. Sounds easy but hard to pull off.

[@saturninkepa4915]

@@yipshingho1510 sick, just wow, this entire vid so jaw dropping to those who play sc2 and unexplainable to those that don't. lol

[@Jc_12368]

It kinda reminded me of the spartan strategy in 300 but in reverse, they jumped to the rear instead of the ones behind them jumping to the front lmao

[@johnkonig865]

I chose marauders for the first one, and I stuck with it, but I have to admit that I really began to sweat when those last 5 banelings refused to die. :D

[@wednesdayboy7390]

Damn that's so tense What a thrilling fight Love your stuff ❤️

[@theo199922]

The zerg v protoss fight was so close to being zerg dominated but the perfect blinking from the stalkers was just too much. great watch really thought the zerg had it in the bag

[@GelleSzebasztian]

if the zerg microd the swarm hosts better it would be a zerg win

[@fetusofetuso2122]

I like how the battlecruisers all line up neatly in the distortion field :D

[@LokTar_Ogar93]

man those force fields were the MVPs

[@knusperkurt]

Nice Turnaround for the Protoss-Army in Fight 6 =)

[@mwperk02]

Blink stalkers are the ultimate chads.

[@Miro_X]

Perfectly microed blink stalkers are unkillable.

[@SpiralBiscuit]

Love this type of stuff, remember these being done a lot more in WoL. Got all of them right except the last one, thought there were more broodlords than there were, really weird swarmhost stuff, locusts randomly idled in some of those fights? marauder baneling one was actually crazy though hahaha

[@jozomrkva4497]

It was nice seeing the Predators being actually useful for a change.

[@maximus28549]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="134">2:14</a> this reminds me of 2 banes can kill all 1000 marines when they are all in that vortex

[@ShadowAimai]

Oh, I remember that one. They make the most pretty glowing green flower for a few seconds.

[@ivkozi]

Sublime video! I'm most grateful to youtube for recommending your amazing channel!

[@FCCmusic]

i dont know why this came to me but it was really cool and i love how you scripted the protoss battle with the mother ship it was cute and well directed

[@antcow1239]

I got an idea, how about those SpecOp units that you got for the final Starcraft chapter? Each one of their units had names and the battlecruiser could shoot multiple targets, that would be good for a swarm fight.

[@vincentlefur4490]

That last marauder in the first fight is definitely gonna have PTSD from all this acid. Gonna be tough to eat any red fruit at this rate 😂

[@Zeraltz]

Dude that final battle was amazing af, I watched it like 4 times

[@saturninkepa4915]

is it possible that if they were run through in differing order, using differing strategies the end would be different? Or is the way it is setup to maximum advantage for all involved? Just wondering because its mind bending most warped thing I have seen in terms of SC2, those not familiar with the game, would be like "huh? okie doke. neat little robots"

[@Jc_12368]

lmao that ghost vs ultralisk round was a treat to the ears and eyes, those tiny pew pew blasts making the absolute hulks that are ultralisks explode into chunks lmfao

[@dragojess]

Thank you for showing us Archon Toilet, it was so fun to watch

[@joeking5215]

Very nice epic fights. What's frustrating though is that there is not enough space for armies to surround each other

[@Cha0s808]

I’m just getting into this “VS.” series but I love that you keep the old Warcraft 2 music for some of the fights. They’re great songs, so much nostalgia

[@LoudWaffle]

I was so confused about the imbalance at the beginning of fight two… I completely forgot about Archon toilet, but I never watched the game back in that era. It was cool to actually see firsthand!

[@RaynorsWisdom]

Well, I've seen some pretty intense battles in my time, but this Fight Club takes the cake. 1000 banelings? That's enough to make even a hardened space cowboy like me a little queasy. But hey, I'm always up for a good brawl. Let's see how these armies fare against each other.

[@ItzBigidy]

Imagine being one of the marauders in the front rank and seeing that come at you O_O

[@mariodelamata8368]

Cool editing bro and good ideas, keep it up🔥

[@sc1_fidelity569]

Wow this is amazing. Sick production

[@GrippeeTV]

That one marauder is never going to be the same man lol, can only imagine what that story is going to sound like telling his grandkids 😭

[@tgmtf5963]

Turns out he was the son og Gigachad

[@kingfu987]

The issues with many of these match ups is many of the units rely on a surround of the enemy i.e zealots and lings and ultralisk, essentially all the melee units need a surround which these narrow paths prevented. Would like to see a rematch where there is space to do that

[@loganyuan222]

GREAT GREAT VIDEO, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

[@tommy5547]

I love this and I cannot stop watching.

[@kamen42]

I can't believe I got everything right. I thought the Marauder vs Banelings will be dominant. And the Archon toilet was a beautiful trip down the memory lane. I can't believe it's already been over 11 years since this stopped being a thing.

[@madumlao]

UED fleet vs Kerrigan's swarms - in the Brood war campaign finale, the Char cerebrate destroyed a massive fleet of battlecruisers with scourge / muta (Devourer is implied but not shown). Kerrigan "for sport" gave them a headstart to retreat, but according to the story, no BC got back to Earth. - what would this battle look like in SC1 / SC2 terms

[@themad4249]

K?errigan : I think i'll just destroy all three of you Mengsk: Btw Artanis and Dugalle, do you know that this orbital station have 5 weak point taht can be destroyed? Kerrigan: Fuck The end

[@asterpw]

Yes yes yes! Been waiting for a new one!

[@Devillionaire]

well that was the most insane thing i'll see on youtube today. nice work.

[@drobert1741]

The map severely gimps the troop strength of all encounters. The Archons and the Ultralisks should have been on the front line against each other in the final scenario. Half of the archons/ultis were dead before they even hit anything.

[@Tin9102]

bro i feel like ultralisks were struggling with vision and the overseers were kinda far from ghosts idk

[@nicholasfactor]

@@Tin9102 right

[@Numenorean921]

zerg would win every battle without the chokepoints

[@pawea1347]

I thought banelings and predators are going to win. These took me by suprise. In the last fight, Stalkers prove that they're absolutely unstoppable in right hands (and also good using force fields).

[@rjhogan07]

I also thought banelings would win, but I guessed (correctly) that the marines would shred them. Predators really are a fairly redundant unit, being anti-swarm-melee melee, when you are just about forced to get hellions, let alone the gigachads of the niche that are firebats. The glaring weakness of being a melee unit means that units with guns are going to chew through predators simply because of how the predators present themselves to be focused fired down naturally simply because running into melee range means they are presenting themselves as a target to every marine in five or so tiles, which with the rate of fire marines can get up to on stim means that the health and armor on predators is completely inadequate to the task of clearing marines, which it is semi built for given its supposed to clear small foes. The problem, as stated earlier, is that firebats also exist in campaign, do not need to be researched and therefore do not present an opportunity cost just by existing, and fulfill the same anti swarm unit niche as predators, only their bio so you can put them into your Triple M Deathball as you please or shove them in bunkers to cook zerglings and zombies for days, and too add insult to injury firebats can get better health and armor via campaign upgrades and research, AND have stimpacks (IIRC that last bit)! So to sum up a unit analysis that snuck up on me; TL,DR Predators beat small melee, but the problem is they ONLY be small melee and in the campaign you can get them in you also probably already have firbats, who also beat small melee but also are fantastic as damage sponges for a bioball so there is never a reason to grab the big cats who are out done by a bunch of pyromaniacs who have such a good kit they literally made another unit just by switching out the fire for grenades.

[@nerdlord2288]

@@rjhogan07 predators have a jump and stun upgrade that wasn't used here,I think would've went 9ther way with that

[@joaopadua7134]

Right hands, a computer

[@belofon8899]

@@rjhogan07 Firebats have stimpacks only in coop, in campaign this is marine-only upgrade. Also, their only hp upgrade is Vanadium Plating from lab which works for all units and isn't actually that good

[@calidag]

The background music from WarCratf II brought memories of sitting in front of our PC for hours playing campaigns, extracting oil, and other resources, upgrading armor and buildings. The late 90s

[@micheltanaka2420]

I was about to question the wisdom of deploying the Stalkers behind the Colossi, but you proved me wrong! :D

[@PossiblyACat]

That archon toilet took me back

[@CarlosMartinez-pl2ld]

I thought for sure those Ghosts were done for. Well done on the balancing

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

Imagine what they could achieve with actual armor, instead of just a thong.

[@johnpark7972]

@@user-xu2pi6vx7o this comment made my day 😂

[@nerdlord2288]

Snipe does bonus dmg vs ultras,wasn't surprising with the choke,open field the ultras would wrap around and win though

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

Maybe back when ghosts didn't hard counter everything Zerg has... In wings of Liberty they did 50 damage for 50 energy to Ultras. Now it's 170 damage for 50 energy, more than three times damage.

[@Vinchester87]

This is amazing! The best quality you have done sofar

[@laszlomiskei9138]

This peetty much saved my monday ... thx mate!

[@King_Kenny_II]

1st Fight: Banelings is like Hand Sanitizer, kills 99% of terrans.

[@ZackWolfson13]

That's 99.9%, haha.

[@Flawskiii]

I got every single one correct and my guess is that Marauders would've survived with more units if they just didn't use stim, they ain't killing a damn thing once the ball starts rolling anyway.

[@alejandro55227]

I missed these videos. Great Work

[@jacobgreer1488]

Man I love the warcraft 2 music. I need to go play it again. Guess its time to boot up dads old work computer.

[@scottevensen2615]

Wow, that first fight was sooooooooooooo close! Predator almost looked cool for a second. How much supply was each army at the end there?

[@asdfqwerty9241]

Zerglings and zealots are basically the only thing that predators are good against. Against anything ranged they pretty much just die, against anything armored they don't do enough damage which just doesn't leave much that they're any good against (they have a lot of overlap with hellbats and firebats too, but at least hellbats don't cost gas which makes them a lot more useable).

[@mwperk02]

the marauders won but at what cost? I think those banelings definitely got their moneys worth.

[@jmcginty96]

The Warcraft 2 humans music was so epic. Took me waaaay back to dorm days living on WC2, Mountain Dew and ramen

[@leocaszano]

WOOOOW! Gracias por otro video de estos :3

[@LifeLikeSage]

The most important question is: Where was that last surviving Marauder standing at the beginning of the fight?

[@zes7215]

wrggg

[@killerninja4416]

he was near the right last group but more to the left then go up more left go down then go left then go up then again up and then right there you see him

[@nerdlord2288]

Stalker micro at end with the blinks seems cheating because guardians and swarm host don't retreat waiting for respawn.they should commit to death and not recharge their shields with blink micro

[@m3thisse]

The marauder survivor got me laughing out loud, completely unexpected.

[@PartyQuest]

fantastic video! great idea! glad i found it.

[@chrishubbard64]

That last one was insane. It looked like the zerg had it on lock for the 2nd and third quarter. Then suddenly the swarm hosts seemed to have a recast timer measured in years and the stalkers were able to easy mode blink their way to safety and kite the locusts to death then move in and murder swarm hosts.

[@SquirrellyOtter]

Yeah if the protoss had more room to maneuver around each other instead of being bodyblocked in the choke point, it would have been a much more dominant protoss victory

[@legion8863]

If it wasnt for the stupid amount of swarm host and was hydra or lurkee instead, it wouldve been easily zerg win

[@tjjavier]

You have an awesome, awesome channel bro! Deserving of many more subscribers! 😊👌

[@Ferkrat]

Its would be so awesome to watch those fight on open field like huge one...because some units have advantage in this thin corridors at open field everyone is equal P.S anyway awesome video thanks

[@McMega33]

lol that first match tho.. awesomness. keep the vids coming

[@keizan5132]

Ghosts vs Ultras with Warcraft II music gives me life.

[@iKonks]

Damn this is some insane battles. I knew marauders gonna win but man, only 1 left omg.

[@littlerave86]

There is nothing more powerful in SC2 than perfect stalker blink micro.

[@TheBlvision]

That Warcraft I music is so epic! I love it!

[@newhan123]

Fight3 is Warcraft 2 music: human 1 LOVE IT

[@DagothUr69]

Those swarm hosts and broodlords backs must have chronic pain from carrying their entire army. It wouldn’t even be close without them

[@ds8249]

Actually stunned the first fight was as close as it was. I didn’t know bailings were so tanky

[@GrommiD]

AmAzing, so much satisfaction.

[@usnationalist]

This is was more entertaining than I expected.

[@Nerubico]

final fight was very exciting - too bad, that the swarm hosts messed up, if they would have been producing units, I think even the stalkers would have had some problems, even when their blinking was a really good job !

[@matiascarrillo486]

I just wish I could see the APM in the Zerg vs Protos armies, because that stalker micro looked kinda nasty

[@Alekouzos]

I saw the archon toilet and i remember how toss back then trying to say that was so balance. LOL

[@jessesgamereviewstipsandst5517]

Nice fights, On fight 6 I was looking forward to the alternative ending with(Nuclear Launch Detected) but I'll settle for that final warp in.

[@sethwhitehead3956]

That last fight is irrefutable proof that you should always bet on the Stalkers.

[@7napoleon]

WTF...... That marauder killed the only witness, no one left to give a truthful statement about this epic fight.

[@ten-tonnetongue]

This is a good way to test unit balance.

[@satobi46]

It's incredible how optimized StarCraft 2 is

[@ehsanjamshidy9873]

So cool, thnx 4 videos man, 🤩

[@Meridiu5]

ahh, the classic archon toilet bowl. brings tears to my eyes

[@FallenAngelGER]

you can say what you want, the balancing is insane in this game.

[@Arthur-xr1vk]

In Fight 2: Thanks to the Splash Damage effect of the Archons, and the Battlecruisers cramped together, the Archons can decimate them easily and the damage won't be wasted. Genius.

[@UnklSam39]

I'm amazed at how this held my attention

[@Darkblitzie]

That Mothership vs Battlecruiser battle was ridiculous.

[@Yagami913]

This is art.

[@stormed_moba]

Amazing idea! We will also have some fight club in our game!

[@oj43085]

I was about to say the stalkers were misplaced at the very back but then I guess it worked out anyway.

[@Trades46]

The good old Archon Toilet. I think I saw that during the old SC2 of professional GSL.

[@techwizpc4484]

It would be interesting to see Alphastar control the armies at fight 6.

[@diewahrheit6626]

Depending on how the units are set up, different results can easily come out. I noticed that at C&C.

[@ultraliskbuilder5831]

Predictions! 1) Banes won against marines, so of course. Look at that green tide. (HOOOOLY MOLY. SKIN. OF. TEETH.) 2)BCs? Especially with Yamato. (Wh- what happened? Oh.... huh....) 3) Snipe and range vs tank. Uncertain. Maybe ghosts? Singular squad? (More then I expected.) 4) The predators are going to slaughter the lings, trade against the zlots, and die to the marines. That's too much for them, they don't regen. (Horay.) 5) That *is* a lot of spears of aiur..... I feel like they win, I don't think widow splash is enough. (YOUR ZERG FORCES ARE UNDER ATTACK.) 6) If placed differently, I'd say protoss, but I don't think we can retake our homeworld. (Sentry field macro 10/10. Rest in pieces, brothers. Your sacrifice meant that we did not have to fall back to the shadows.)