The Best StarCraft 2 Matches Ever: Stats vs. Dark (#3)

[@SC2HL]

Hey everyone, I've started putting more work into different series! Currently focusing on: - General highlights: Interesting moments, games, and strategies from current tournaments and finals. - The Best matches ever: With a special focus on some of the best matches during the past 12 years of Professional Starcraft. - Cheese compilations: Focused on different cheeses such as Cannon rushes & proxy hatcheries. In the future I would like to bring back: - TOP 5 plays (tournament & community) - Kings of StarCraft - A brand new tournament (live-streamed on the channel) If you have any suggestions, let me know!

[@Bierverkoster]

love those "best ofs" keep it up mate

[@jinjeong323]

I suggest the banshee basetrade with fantasy vs. soo on king sejong station for one of the most nail biting sc2 games

[@njdarda]

this is incredible stuff. thanks for bringing back memories, amazing work.

[@yonker1337]

Community games and their highlights would be sick and might grow the channel.

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

I'm absolutely loving this series. ...I do think it would be really funny to do a "worst matches ever" series, where you showcase some of the silliest, most bungled matches where everything falls apart.

[@nohbodhi1120]

i like this idea. One where both players are constantly making mistakes and you have no idea whos gonna win

[@SuperGamingeek]

clown fiesta highlights

[@Hrydra]

love to see this

[@Vici0uSquirrel]

Tefel vs…. I think Bomber maybe was an example of this lol

[@steeldragon5730]

so HAS games?

[@Tomoyuki_Tanaka]

That final engagement was great!

[@durogpuso]

Great is an understatement

[@Smoj_]

Damn sc2 skill ceiling DEFINITELY is so much higher now compared to 5 years ago

[@SC2HL]

In anticipation of IEM Katowice 2023, we highlighted one of the best games from the tournament: Stats vs. Dark. Watch the tournament this Thurday on: bit.ly/katowicesc2

[@GiliacHeskel]

It is amazing how players dramatically improved their skills. I mean compare this gameplay with any current pro play!

[@liamgonzales8111]

That last battle was insane!

[@MattMarshallUK]

These 'Best of' games have not disappointed. Top tier SC2!

[@peterchui1964]

Pig has improved massively over the years.

[@lodremipsulm1461]

I have the exact opposite feeling : I usually love his casting but that one especially fells forced. He's taking the very deep gurutal screaming voice of some other casters and it feels to me unnatural and unpleasant to listen to. flavours and colours I guess ?

[@slapzk5355]

@@lodremipsulm1461 I would agree. Everything that was minor in the game was just so greatly magnified to the point of just being cringe. It was like listening to a 12 year old boy play fortnite.

[@peterchui1964]

@@lodremipsulm1461 agreed, this was in 2017. I meant that he’s made progress since then.

[@lodremipsulm1461]

Oh my bad ! I thought it just happened. I totally agree with you then

[@MattSipka]

Was the Mothership Core that bad of a unit that it needed to be removed entirely, instead of a rework? I don’t remember anyone hating this unit to that extent.

[@peterhardie4151]

Completely broken. This was Protoss era. Zergs were struggling.

[@bwax3135]

It was not completely broken, but it was too strong. It was supposed to be a defensive unit, but was still obviously capable of joining early aggression. They added the shield batteries when they removed them in order to slow toss down early game

[@DanielFenandes]

Yes, people used to hate it. It was clearly a band aid

[@tobongkim9687]

There was a time when protoss could tell the terran in advance that they'd go mothership core blink stalker and the terran still wouldnt be able to defend it. It was a bullshit unit.

[@gskills55]

It wasn't a balance issue as I see it, it just made for bad gameplay. It encouraged either turtling or gimmicky forms of early aggression. Gimmicky meaning it only worked cause your opponent made a mistake or else failed miserably. Its removal encouraged other early game unit interactions like the adept or oracle which are much more interesting, have a high skill ceiling, and not as binary in terms of commitment.

[@luckypozzo3939]

I loved this map.

[@Warrigt]

6:37 Reenactment of the events of this past weekend in the skies above the US.

[@얼티밋-l7d]

welcome back stats!

[@Groet]

It's from 2017

[@얼티밋-l7d]

@@Groet but I suddenly remembered that he was discharged from the army.

[@V3x0r]

Absolute banger of a game!💥🔥🔥🔥💥

[@Phoenix7786]

My God what an amazing match

[@tantreyetalarathor222]

What a game that absolutely deserves top match ever status

[@MichaelNatrin]

Beautiful match.

[@jayhxmo]

I wonder if in the final engagement Stats could have had it easier by just focusing down the brood lords. Dark wouldn't have had much of a ground army to cover the warp in of Stats, the corruptors would have been deadweight

[@anothertruegamer4310]

Same thing can be said about targeting the corrupters. It leaves his air free range to do more damage by focusing those. And generally Protoss air is so insane because they get so much value and you trade your ground units. Also stopping draw potential bc the broods can be chased easy if it becomes a base race, the corrupters would be too fast to chase down.

[@jamiequieta1092]

3:24 2 immortals get blocked by a single zealot

[@Cnicholasdownie]

LOVE THE INTRO !!

[@Gun1ld]

bomber vs goswser. Most innovative comeback ever made.

[@jacksonschreiber851]

For an all-time great game, I would suggest 2018 WCS Global Finals, Game 4 Serral vs Rogue. Rogue had more mining and more map control for virtually the entire game, with Serral trying to grind it out with cost efficiency. Includes some of the best burrowed roaches nonsense ever seen.

[@locksmith4707]

There seems to be a mistake in the description. It is not Maru vs Stats :P

[@xandier5951]

honestly, I split my drink the moment I saw mothership core. Just like old time, pogna

[@MatexSK]

Storm is just spell for braindead, it is unbelievable how strong it is

[@cristianperezbrunet7944]

Wow, what a final clash!

[@jcyoungpine918]

ToD = Dark Shrine! Lol sorry this moment randomly came to while watching this match.

[@OrderPrerogative]

why video of the game is at best 720p?

[@SC2HL]

It was played in 2017 and that’s the max quality

[@PhillipandMolly]

Gooo Tos!!

[@basedandredpilled7920]

God damn zerg was imba, impressive for stats to win despite that.

[@daiooji]

Why do I have this feeling that this is not the first "Best Match Ever" from this channel lol

[@flynnwagner9653]

I’m not sure if you are joking, but this is a collection of the best SC2 games of all time. This one being #3 in the collection.

[@SC2HL]

This is a brand new series where we focus on highlighting the best matches during the 12 years of StarCraft 2 professional play. We carefully consider the various games that are highlighted in the series, plus created custom graphics and a brand new intro. With IEM Katowice coming up, I wanted to highlight one of the best games played at Katowice in the history of the tournament. This also serves as promotion for the tournament :D

[@daiooji]

@@flynnwagner9653 oh, I didn't even noticed there is "#3"

[@daiooji]

@@SC2HL Thanks for the detailed explanation. I kinda remember watching "Best match ever" or "greatest match ever" videos before, so I made a joke, but I guess there are background for each HL series on this channel.

[@jastorms712]

asu, de que año es esto que veo el nucleo de la nave nodriza :o

[@illusion5739]

W intro 🗿

[@aryksanchez5070]

I just like to see dark get defeated I hate zerg and feel they are way too hard to beat.

[@ja3482]

18:42 lol what?!?

[@alexanderslepuhin9648]

zerg could win this game so many times

[@garsia1531]

Top!!!!

[@yummybunny7351]

3:00 so funny

[@IWANT_TOBELIEVE]

LETS GOOOO

[@br1065]

As for usual, protoss face roll storms and wins. What a bad design.

[@botmushin8878]

This is not true, a couple of banelings on the flank can wipe them all out.

[@mastrblastr02]

Wooooo

[@Misaki_Chan6]

😵😮😮😮😮

[@floofy5529]

Protoss: has the worst: - buildings. Terran can liftoff & repair, zerg can heal and move static defense. - mass: Terran's can build 2 at a time and Zerg can queen inject. Toss is 1 unit per production building - detection: Terran can scan, Zerg can use any existing overlord. Toss needs to spend valuable production time to produce an observer instead of an immortal. Same for Oracle. - capital units: Capital units of all races have same trade-off: they're slow, big, expensive, and slow to build. But Toss has additional trade-offs! Toss's best ground unit can be taken out instantly by anti-air. Carrier's although strong, are useless when their weak interceptors are destroyed - spellcasters: Terran & Zerg have great late game casters. Toss does not. This race is such an after-thought by Blizzard.

[@rudysettles2077]

yea the truth becomes pretty obvious when u start looking at every single thing compared to other races. This is why zerg been dominating so much and then terrans with toss doing the worst overall at the pro level

[@aryksanchez5070]

Toss can build shield batteries and heal their buildings, terran have to spend minerals to repair and zerg takes a long ass time unless they transfuse which means energy not being used to injects or creep tumors ntm other valuable buildings and or units. Mass Toss can get an army out litterally the fastest of all races warpgate being kind of imba and such ntm the most simplistic way of getting the army into the fight the fastest and a built in recall automatically. Detection.....yeah scans which means less mules which is the only way a terran can keep up with zerg and toss economy. Zerg has to tech into using an overlord and morph time........Observers are dirt cheap and oracles have the best detection in the game and it's more valuable. Capital units.........Thors are fat and easily taken out by zealots and zerglings.......Ultralisks can be sniped and are easily countered by immortals......and colossus can climb up and down ledges giving them outright the best micro of the 3 main ground units. Toss don't have it the worst by quite a bit of degree!

[@sunghobaek3361]

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[@muddymusk6230]

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[@professorquack]

Dear announcers, just let me watch the game.

[@conradperry3847]

anyone else annoyed by the casters? lol

[@sharigan35]

dude yes, that one english guy had the most generic and unhelpful commentary. Had to mute the video halfway through.

[@Bracket.]

could you, please, remove the standart music from videos?

[@sunghobaek3361]

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