The Legend of YouPudding (Part 2)

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[@juandiaz3651]

It would be epic to have YouPudding play against Hoang

[@letswaveabook3183]

There is a video of Hoang vs. the Inca villager/tower rush of the past. Maybe that satisfies your soul.

[@rickbiessman6084]

Yes please! T90, set up a showmatch maybe?

[@callmeswivelhips8229]

I second this request as well!!

[@Lexoka]

@@rickbiessman6084 This would be amazing.

[@user-jm5bl5ex6w]

hoang vs youpudding please

[@marksmith-hk6xz]

This is how AoE2 still remains a playable game. Not the physical click click and standard Strats but the constant evolving that is produced by unique tech/civs, the cerebral element keeps things fresh . I am very sure that there are other tech/civs that can produce other types of Strats to disrupt the meta. All until the devs nerf it, and from what you are saying this civ/unit is more than likely be nerfed. What I am interested in is how after it is nerfed, is how this tactic influence meta in the near future.

[@cthulucount9514]

Suwuwus

[@fluffydestroyer8336]

ALL HAIL THE SICILIAN PUDDING so cool to see a strat like this that makes full use of a civ's unique attributes

[@Igor369]

It is not full use, the farm upgrade bonus, bonus damage reduction, team bonus and faster built castles and TCs are literally useless.

[@oneoneonefour]

First of all, love to see Sicilians use their unique bonuses. Secondly, YES destroy the current meta. Any time the meta gets too stale champions like YouPudding arise to shake things up. We need more players like this.

[@The-jy3yq]

"Heroes arise to lead their brethren to battle" I like this destroying of meta - simple, smart, devious and not the dumb civ overpowering that Hindustanis and Gurjaras were

[@raphaelcardoso7927]

I absolutely love this strat. As a noobie, it really impresses me that he manages to get such quick castle times with all of that going on. All power to the Pudding!

[@gambitsfadedglory3810]

I hope he loves that he is changing the game.

[@xbenxwilsonxhighlights7879]

This guy's Strat is really good. Offence is the greatest defence and this play is the essence of that. I can't wait to see part 3.

[@udanamethmal6632]

Such a satisfying strat. I wonder what other CIVs can be played like this Hoang style. Then again there aren't many units that get upgraded automatically in castle age.

[@hikatoyshi]

Bulgarian milicia line is also instantly upgraded and they get krepost.

[@cambac-pro]

gurjaras camels, bulgarian militia, turkish scouts, ethiopian pikemen

[@hikatoyshi]

@@cambac-pro I think Bulgarians and Turks are the best to use that as a rushing tool. Especially Bulgarians because they have more efficient blacksmith.

[@Sarge226]

@@cambac-pro none really have the pierce armor to just completely ignore TC fire

[@cambac-pro]

@@Sarge226 trueee but instead of rams you could use a krepost!

[@dlscorp]

He has single-handedly rewritten the rules about balancing eco and army with this maximum aggro strat. LFG !!!

[@krugerstan]

This is really excellent content. The idea of this kind of guy breaking top-tier metas in the most frustrating way possible just tickles me.

[@Vicks0]

T90 you're flawless and make zero mistakes

[@user-cs1dk2ug7l]

Let's goo, the pudding is back

[@tomtenthij5676]

🎉🎉🎉

[@GunnerGates]

I love this strat. I tend to favor all in feudal plays, either all in scouts or a Tati rush. I’ve been looking for a way to have a tower type rush, and I think I just found out the way 👍

[@ashplague6200]

I used the strategy after watching the first video at 800 elo on an arena style map, struggled to get through the wall and when I did my opponent had 30+ scouts, thought I was done but the donjon let’s you train spears, I got pikes and ejected them and 3mins later with a ram I got the gg

[@skipper472]

He should have gone to castle instead. 30 scouts are so very expensive.

[@ashplague6200]

@@skipper472 it’s 800 elo, it would have worked for him due to the shock factor but he had the same issue getting to my base, couldn’t breach the wall and then I had seageants and pikes everywhere

[@Aggregate17]

thanks for speeding up through the slow parts!

[@Peter-sYnet]

I really like then player find new ways to play the game that works. Cant wait for part 3

[@RennieAsh]

Reminds me of the old Macedonian hopolites in AoE 1. Slow, hard to kill with meta units. Also were resistant to conversions.

[@MrDeaderik]

It's such a good strategy that works on multiple maps as well. I've done it at my (admittably lower) elo on Arena. Once managed to starve a player out of wood by towering his woodline. A fast castle into siege is what seems to counter it. A couple Mangonels can prevent you from pushing.

[@celdur4635]

I love new strats like this, SPECIALLY from civs that are considered "useless"

[@schlauauslander9711]

Just want to say T90. You've become THE AoE2 caster for me. You've filled the void left from Zero Empires and BBQTurkmen, and honestly, I think you're much more entertaining than anyone else. I appreciate the effort you put into videos like this!

[@TrustyLicious]

Thanks for shining the spot light on all these legends

[@discoepfeand]

What a fantastic video. You really put in effort here to bring us along for the journey, and it paid off. Thanks so much for showing us this!

[@user-li8bm4fk6k]

I love anything that involves rushing, cheesing, 1-tricking, and nothing...please keep adding!!! I watch them all!!!

[@foreseencow2572]

I came up against this strategy, but at my elo it wasn’t done perfectly. And I was able to hold with archers and walls till I could get to castle and make slingers. I got lucky a lot though and it was a difficult game but it was fun.

[@ideegeniali]

This video is well researched and well delivered. Plus there is lot of content. Good rhythm. Fresh contents. And cherry on top, true enthusiasm and passion for the game and respect and love for the community both players and viewers!

[@gladrecycler8532]

This just goes to show this game will never truly die, there will always be something new :D

[@jesonraymond9436]

its 2:21 AM, so take all of this with that veil....but damn..this is so fast. What a strat

[@josiahbridges8146]

I love this guy

[@gothia1715]

Tbh, everything that messes with a dominating meta like that is exciting!

[@TheMGeldart]

Absolutely love this! AOE2 builds are so stale and shifts in the meta are awesome to see! The reason I watch AOE2 is because it's similar to my first love, Broodwar; the most recent RO8 in the ASL, SoulKey vs JyJ, was freaking incredible.

[@melonetankberry5211]

he's making sargents look like teutonic knights. it's magic.

[@SemiMono]

Except they're cheaper, and you don't need a castle, and they're faster, and they can build more of their own production building.

[@danieltoth9742]

@@SemiMono ... and they're even tankier against arrows, and you can start massing them an age earlier.

[@nebuchadneszar]

Super excited for part 3! This strat is bonkers aggressive and I LOVE IT

[@ryanforgo3500]

@t90 i ran into ppl doing this strat and thought they are trolling, did not lose even once to it. I always win with a fast castle, but then again i almost always go fast castle vs sicilians. I do have a few weird ideas to counter it too which works for me.

[@unmaskedandanonymous3660]

tell us more

[@iand6541]

Thanks for the video!

[@highparadise11]

Yes gonna watch part 3 now

[@letswaveabook3183]

When I saw the first Youpudding video, I thought: I want to try that to, being a troll. However I did not buy any DE expansions so I left at it. But this part 2 makes it very tempting for me to get the lords of the west expansion.

[@rbase96]

They go on sale pretty often, down to a price of $5 or even less on steam

[@phoenix3992]

Re: 30:58 Oh you're little T90 teaser with that "Someone has an even BETTER strat...... which I'll tell you in a few days.'" Right on brother. I'll tune in of course.

[@guillervz]

One thing I've noticed, since everyone is so active in feudal, their walls are usually not well placed. Youpudding places his walls perfectly, so feudal attacks are not an issue at all.

[@19AngelsSorrow89]

I noticed a lot of "okey"s at the start, but aside from that awesome video! I didn't realize how high Youpudding's elo was, that makes it even more fancy. Can you try and convince him to apply for silver next season? :D

[@drz0b]

Can we just talk about how long it takes YouPudding to herd a zebra into the TC at 20:00? hilarious

[@ayesaac]

I love this so much.

[@TheCryptoArchive]

I always start my day with coffee and T90 vids My life has been stressfree ever since +10 life quality

[@steveolotu52]

T90 has been spoiling us recently.

[@busshock]

I'm so happy someone finally cracked the Sicilian code. Serjeants are such a cool and unique unit, and a lot more powerful than the pros seem to give them credit for.

[@iceefrags8770]

this was amazing!

[@3munchenman]

The new player with this strat has got to be named me_pudding

[@juanfisi]

Hope this keeps going, I like having things other than archers in the meta.

[@karladajca3205]

Omg this youpudding game is insane with his fast castle donjeons Serjeants play! It's hilarious! gg wp 11!

[@Kevin-zt7lb]

I love it! I love when strange new things break a highly tuned meta. Like Death and Taxes does to legacy MTG: everyone has a tightly tuned deck with a very efficient win condition and D&T just pulls the rug out from under it. I think it'll be good for the high ELO community to have to adapt to this.

[@jellevanbreugel325]

here's a like for your validation 😂 great vid!

[@patcoston]

I'd love to see a game between two 2000+ Elo players that reaches the final Age and lasts for hours.

[@onurs.4581]

Can someone make a compilation of everytime t90 saying jibatong please. I NEED IT IN MY LIFE

[@Gooodguyto]

I know you didn't play a lot of AoE4, but the Sergeant reminds me a lot of the AoE4 Men at Arm. Lower damage but very tanky. I like it a lot.

[@MotivateWorkSucceed]

Love this

[@6MrBroda9]

tried it today on 1k elo - got tower rushed and once 2TC boom... not a chance. this strat wrecks everything :D awesome!!!! and my play was faaar from clean 11

[@ptbasedev]

Its mad thst you get a unit with 2/2 armour as soon as you hit feudal

[@user-wi7vu5hv8g]

Hera gave YouPudding a lesson

[@andrewwooyc]

I managed to defeat a player who used this strategy after reading about it on Reddit. Basically did Malian FC -> castle + gbeto and it countered it nicely. But otherwise it is basically impossible to counter

[@skipper472]

If you were able to get a castle up, his strategy failed already. He should have hit you very early, much before you have a castle or even go to castle age.

[@radiobrain94]

fun strat, gotta love a little gamba

[@lLeonNexl]

Historically accurate on how Sicilians dominated 😂😂

[@johnpog9994]

This is epic!

[@thomascollins7955]

Haven't played in a while. Time to get back to the ladder and try this out!

[@pranavpandey2822]

how is life @T90

[@lancelotdulac6076]

great strat! waiting 4 part 3

[@EokaBeamer69]

Tristan please make a HOANG vs. YOUPUDDING showmatch happen.

[@hugogaratecallejo9817]

Really cool strategy

[@Glibbers]

Surely there must be other civs where marketplace + everyone on gold to quickly churn out units is feasible.

[@dipankardeori212]

U can try with Aztecs, Eagles-Siege-Monk full agro, need very less food. Strong eco due to+3 carry, faster military production, probably best monks (jus need to research sanctity and redemption if reqd). I was about 1k elo, jumped up to 1.4k + now with that strat in about a month, win almost 80-90% if the time. Do Drush in Dark age to disturb the enemy and prompt reaction in Feudal from the opponent.

[@skipper472]

Saracen can get to castle much quicker, so I think they can counter this strategy with just knight

[@TheDevourerOfPancake]

Hoang uses the market pretty heavily with Celts. I think the market use allows people to focus harder on an early castle power spike, so any civ that has a power spike then could specialize this way

[@Lidon249]

Wouldn't an Saracens fast castle be a hard counter to this strat? Better market value, and knights beating serjeants? Suggesting it, since this stragegy is pretty passive until castle age.

[@TheDevourerOfPancake]

Serjents melee defense is as high as their pierce defense, knights aren't a hard counter

[@coaiemandushman1079]

this strat is basically playing like the Dutch in AoE3 in the beginning and then doing a sick proxy

[@YELLOWRIDGE]

30:26 gonna remember that for ever T90 "youpidin" is what you said in my language that sounds verry funny im welsh.

[@EyUpNortherner]

Youpudding vs hoang please!

[@ilikecanes]

I guess fc knights? Or like fc longswords into seige? You need to have a similar timing and two barracks. I guess you could do the same with knights. Bulgarians and Dravidians can probably do a good job. Also add a monastery and seige? The timing is ridiculous

[@volbla]

You can start producing these in feudal with 2/2 armor! Once you reach castle they immediately have 3/3 armor! Yeah, i can see how that's hard to deal with.

[@JoycenatorGaming]

Pudding!

[@sandmaenchen]

I mean, if it gets your opponent killed and is not a cheat, it must be a legit strategy.

[@shemsuhor8763]

This level of min/maxxing and strategizing is so good. They should never nerf it, RIP "perfect balance" as a goal. :(

[@FLTG13]

I was doing this back in June/July at 1100 Elo on Xbox, got me a win against a 1350 Elo rated player. I typically place 3-4 towers around opponent TC though

[@bigbakaboon]

basically it boils down too that feudal age units don't stack up against sarjents, and then he rushes castle age. It's a hard thing to counter. You're melee is not going to be great, your ranged isn't going to be great. So just treat it like tower rush i guess? but you have to build barraks units.

[@OMAR_AOE2]

Mush love ❣️

[@pedropasquini4311]

Imagine when youpuddin meets huang

[@GaMeZaHoY]

29:05 siege commander does it again

[@bananan7]

Can't wait to see Viper or Hera against this

[@2cunem]

The most imporant Thing is that everyone call GG. Maybe when somaone say fu IT will Stop him😅

[@_jimbarton]

Tnizzle my brizzle what's gizzle

[@ComfyDents]

Ferb, I know what we are gonna do today!

[@Tommy1nnovates]

Waiting for Part 3.

[@alexio1942]

monks have to be involved to counter i swear

[@GamerayVideos]

What about Men at Arms rush with Bulgarians and forward barracks against this?

[@whoareyouyouareclearlylost323]

What happend to knight rush?

[@pHCmendes9788]

In which playlist is it?

[@akshayrawat137]

You should host a tournament for all the legends if you haven't done it already.

[@potNuts]

Love the strat. Would like to see Cumans against it. Don't think this push would be enough to take down 2 TCs in Feudal. If you can hold until Castle you win.

[@aaronarguijo8293]

Imagine this but whith two tc eco and sergant spam like you go castle and you tc make a bunch of farms while your market buys everthing then stabilize while they try to defend

[@HappyDragneels_page]

im surprised they dont get used for tower rushing more often, yeah theyre slightly more res than a tower but theyre tankier and you dont need to send half your eco forward

[@Vlix223]

It's a 2x2 instead of a 1x1, really easy to get battered down by vills if left unatended. Especially in fuedal

[@janhopis]

They're more expensive than Feudal towers but not substantially stronger, so if the opponent just goes onto stone and makes their own it'll be more efficient, plus they're much harder to wall in to stop vils battering down (and you probably don't want to if you're making Serjeants). And obviously those Serjeants might protect the Donjon in case of vil fighting but in that case you're making food and gold units, and you need to be on stone, and you need to make farms too. It's just so resource intensive.

[@ivoivic2448]

trush->archer pressure, if sicilians ditches their food you know it's this strat. just go into man-at-arms...

[@Sarge226]

They are probably going to add a tech that needs to be researched in Castle Age in order to improve your sgts, kind of like eagle warrior. Gaining +50% health, attack and armor for nothing when you get to castle is what is enabling the pacing of this strategy. No disrespect, but this guy is clearly like 6-700 ELO higher than his ability would otherwise allow.

[@ZhangJingxi]

I recently saw 1600 elo doing it on ranked. It is even more extreme, he sent vills to shraggler trees, open mills and mining camp, no lumber camp, no farms, 20+2 FC. Reached castle age at 13 mins, a lot of vills on gold and defend that one gold with a single donjon, and bought all the food and sold all stone, then he was 22 vills vs 30 vills when reaching castle age, but once he make a few serjants opponents had nothing to defend because he was still in feudal. So opponent resigned despite vill and score lead. I don't think this is a very innovative strat, it is simply abusing serjant's overpowering stats which is nothing new. Serjant with a lot of both melee and pierce armour has always be a painful unit to deal with. The only counter is monks which at lower elo doesnt work very well, and knights which are easily countered by mixing spears with serjants. Then if you are in feudal age then it is surely loss because all units does 1 damage to castle age serjant.

[@jeffseidl]

I just played a pretty sick Low ELO match- you should stream that next.

[@tobiasfeil1993]

I hereby motivate you

[@ByTheLake81]

I refuse to defend this statement if challenged, but I feel like he's Fatslob's final form.