This Checklist ENSURES FAILURE!! | Is It IMBA Or Do I Suck?

[@yason1325]

I appreciate that this series is a lot about teaching people about the game by making fun of people who complain about the game being imbalanced.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Well that's dumb. The point should be just to make fun of people and make funny videos. What's the point of teaching people to be better? It's not exactly the same thing but I used to play a lot of poker. I made a conscious effort not to give anyone good advice :) Well, what would happen is that you take someone's money and they whine and complain and say that you're bad. Why would I defend myself and explain my strategy? Why would I reward their insults and whining with good advice? But I digress. It's a competitive game. Why teach others to be better. It's unlikely to work but if it does it's not to your advantage :)

[@skah5651]

@@Jordan-Ramses its pokar, easy money. Here we are sweats and we like to sweat. It makes more fun. We play for sake of playing. And teaching some one so they can entertain us to have good time all together. Without spending too much time by learning all tricks. But to be new is always hard, no matter those fancy league separations. Reality is still that you have a long bloody way to the top, which well, considering many circumstances, just not for everyone achievable. Most of the time it also not worth it, maybe getting some experience, which should be the main goal of all this games. And still, both games. One is silly than other. At the least in our game things cant escalate to some nasty violence. Abusing people, because they not experience, you just abusing trust. But without that trust you are also wont gain anything from them. And we need each other, just abusing trust wont make things good for anyone, just barely for a time, for that one, who thinks he/she is smarter and deserves more than others. But well, im just nerd, you can tell me how is that actually works. Some times we do need to stand up against abuse and unfairness. Again, its just game, if help people, better help them quit game, games are still temporarily, but we need to keep working and improving, deal with problems, we need handy people with bright heads.

[@The_Scouts_Code]

@@Jordan-Ramses whoever is first now will be last.

[@Sara_Feingold]

@Sasha Lemay Agree with what you said, plus adding that helping your opponents improve will push you to improve as well.

[@Rubenss1234]

@@Jordan-Ramses Cuz ur lil dck big ego person xD the idea behind being good in smthis is that u are willing to help others, Cuz improvment of ur enemies make u to worka on urself and improve too ur attitude is the reason why u never will be top in anything

[@TheHomerpro]

I think harstem is absolutely right about how one should use the range of a gun instead of close combat A pistol can be thrown quite some distance

[@gamezoid1234]

You gotta get the throwing technique right tho. Make sure to hold it by the barrel and throw it like an axe.

[@TheHomerpro]

@@gamezoid1234 Now thats a good tip. Ill try it in my next fight. Thank you

[@MrSkarlowy]

LMAO

[@monkeybusiness673]

Oooooh, so that's why my martial arts instructor back in the day kept saying "The best self-defense is a 9mm" My eyes have been opened!

[@michaelliu4366]

@@TheHomerpro And this man is never seen again

[@Sara_Feingold]

Love the work by Hamster on this one. The gateway efficiency tracker, the zoom in on attacking his own ebay, congratulating Harstem on his math...just brilliant stuff XD

[@MrMcMuggel]

Hamster allways so freaking awsome, i agree

[@zorchlp]

That tracker was really cool, at the end of it being on screen it basically showed that the same number of warp-ins he got with 10 gates could have been achieved with just 2 gates running at all times.

[@smnvalex]

Maybe I'm just dumb but i don't even know how he could make that gateway tracking stuff without considerable amount of time investment

[@hermeticinstrumentalist6804]

Hamster is pretty great.

[@Scourge24]

@@smnvalex I think he might have actually scripted it into the observer UI that Harstem used while recording. I can't think of a practical way to do it with video editing after the fact.

[@gilbertlloyd8691]

I'm flabbergasted that this entire match went on and he never got blink. Dealing with a tank line and so many stalkers he could have easily blinked on the tanks and let the collosus do their thing.

[@CoffeeD_1]

playing a stalker based army until you get +3 but never getting tanks is like driving a supercar in first gear.

[@nef36]

@@CoffeeD_1 the sports car comparison is apt because of how light and fragile they are.

[@goldeneagle256]

well, if your not atleast master with 300+ apm, stalkers are kinda terrible unit, and should never been built this many in metal leagues. im only plat toss myself, so cant say i know too much about the game, but i find chargelots, imortals, and archons to be a good comp that really crushes tanks, cause the chargelots gets on top of em easily, and then the tanks start killing eachother just as much as the lots

[@nef36]

@@goldeneagle256 Blink is useful for sniping high value targets of you don't have the micro to blink back individual stalkers.

[@gilbertlloyd8691]

@@goldeneagle256 if you running a mass stalker comp regardless of how crap the unit may be, in numbers and as a gold player I know for a fact I can self correct with it be it go in on top of the smaller comps he was facing including steam rolling the tanks cause it wasn't a lot of them or back out faster by blinking away if needed.

[@colossaldonut5190]

I feel like submitting an IMBA form and opening up with "I suck" is kind of like going into a hospital and saying "I already know I'm perfectly healthy but I want you to check if my leg is broken"

[@JarmamStuff]

Meaning the only prope response would be to break the guy's legs ie turn up the roasting!

[@jerubaal101]

Well people in the SC2 community have this weird thing where if they say they're bad, it's like being good.

[@thehotdogman9317]

@@jerubaal101 It stems from the Dunning Kruger effect

[@lurchgurk7824]

[@Jordan-Ramses]

I don't blame you. I don't even play StarCraft 2 and it makes me want to start so I can submit a replay. Even tho I would have to lie about thinking things were imba :)

[@hivetech4903]

Thanks for the replay dude - IODIS is LIFE!!! 😁

[@Jordan-Ramses]

I don't understand this 'all in' thing. It's just an attack. You're supposed to do that. It isn't sim city.

[@SigilSC2]

@@Jordan-Ramses It's an attack without any follow-up. You're banking the entire game on this one attack working. In a more standard play, you have the option to back up and continue teching and building an army if you don't see a good fight to take. With an all-in, you're too far behind if it doesn't kill or cripple your opponent.

[@mrdoerp]

Your army control and reaction time is dia3 at least. Just your map vision and decision making when to engage is not. Get early obs und fly it directly to T's main ramp area to see whats happening build-order wise, place it a bit outside to know when he moves out. Get at least 1 more obs to cover classic drop path to your main (of course this takes some minimap awareness (which you will almost automatically develop with increased mapvision) to benefit from this). Also a pylon at the "3rd" to cover classic drop path to natural. And most importantly you have to learn when to engage. Expect to kite back quite often with the unit comp you are making here. T is a race that can fortify pretty well (siege tanks, libs, mines, planetaries), dont attack into it unless you really can / have to. Instead move around with your army and poke at different places to find a weak spot. If you dont, just keep map control and expand,expand,expand. And finally, chargelots are pretty gud. I think you wouldve won the game even with your Harakiri engages if you mixed in the right amount. They counter siege tanks heavily and marauders to a good extend. Ideally, dont loose any robo units if you decide to trade in engages (pull back or recall in time). Im confident you can make dia3 soon (tm)

[@nicolapodgornik6644]

"Dear Harmstem, I know that I suck, can you tell me if I suck or it is indeed imba?"

[@Z7Sakari]

I think we should officially refer to Raven turrets as “110 year olds” from now on. 16:31

[@mattduff2970]

I am so sad you didn't notice he never researched blink because I know the metaphor would have been elite

[@Kuzmorgo]

Did they remove blink from stalkers? So many times I was just imagining if he had blink in that situation..

[@Lin-vh7uv]

He never researched blink, while having mass stalkers as the base of his army...

[@Shmandalf]

Absolutely would have won if he had made use of it, imo. So many times he could have blinked on to tanks, or up to his main when drops were hitting, etc.

[@BlindMidget]

36:30 "You spend your money quite well" while the replay shows Solari has absolutely nothing in production with 2500+ resources in the bank XD

[@andrebrodbeck384]

30:26 i love this disruptor shot.....

[@jk-pc1iv]

😄

[@Nevalackinfr]

Honestly love the daily videos where I play them everyday on my lunch breaks I don’t even play StarCraft anymore but I just love you as a brilliant gamer/content creator

[@CatThingy]

big props to hamster for editing in the tournament features like upgrade timings and workers killed

[@hamster_designs]

Wasn't too sure if that really adds to the video but people seem to like it ^^

[@Confluence358]

@@hamster_designs Definitely does!

[@2OmgLol]

as usual, great editing! Loved the additon of how much the gateways were being used :D

[@Chefkok09]

A real big thanks Harstem of talking me trew the game, i heard a lot of intresting things i didt even knew. Like the slow pylon and the fast pylon, this i never notice. so big help in here. also the explaning of the gataway makes sense, i gonna use it the next time in my 1v1

[@jakethornhoffer3612]

Every time I thought, why aren't they blinking the stalkers, or they should build templars, I end up screaming at the screen. There was never a twilight built. 20+ minute game and no twilight. One building (or lack thereof) got to me way more than the lack of scouting and fighting inside the tank radius, those moves would have ended up fine if they just researched blink!

[@damedley75]

So true... All 3 units are so much better with their Twilight upgrade.

[@AntoniGawlikowski]

Great video as always! Both Harstem's commentary AND Hamster's production are top-notch, thank you! Also, I must say I am happy to see the notification sound gone. I generally like most of the additions Hamster makes to the video, this one thing was a bit annoying.

[@ooninjapenguin7286]

I gotta admit the warp in tip was quite useful :). Didn't know that there was a difference.

[@lurchgurk7824]

neither did i !

[@damedley75]

Fast warp-ins? Not sure if he mentioned but the psi matrix color changes slightly from blue with a hint of green to bluish green.

[@sfukuda512]

That reaction to BC's is some classic Plat: at the point where you have been reduced to 17 workers, get a battery in a base. Bronze to Diamond is a numbers game. Get more stuff, get to 200/200 and run over the opponent.

[@thewired4607]

hence why sticking to one build order and mastering it is so important

[@mrdoerp]

more > less

[@Nargon604]

Waiting for the 6K MMR IODIS on carriers

[@nicholasrebstock3203]

Woah, how is your comment 21 minutes old on a 2 minute old video?!

[@damedley75]

@@nicholasrebstock3203 whaaaa?!?

[@kurtloban3664]

Likely a different time zone posting vs the original video poster.

[@Nargon604]

@@nicholasrebstock3203 The video takes time to upload to youtube, I commented while it was still uploading.

[@willmorris340]

Hamster been killing it lately with the mini notations.

[@pax1359]

bgmwss idea, use this guy's build order

[@talictdf4757]

Blizzard should make an announcer with the voice line advice and boom.. automatic in-game coaching 👌🧠

[@JarmamStuff]

"You're supply blocked. Again. Idiot. Go complain to a bnet forum or smth' If that won't teach you to macro, nothing will

[@malikar_8623]

Harstem, this was a great video, I really enjoyed your breakdown and I think it will legitimately help me with my TvP. That being said wtaf do you mean he used his disruptors well, he had them in almost every engagement and legit Amoved them in without even using them. I saw one time he actively moved his nova AWAY from repairing SCVs, and as a bio ball terran main this actively pains me, knowing that this protoss has the power to instantly smite the opposing bio and repairing SCVs out of existence, and absolutely refuses to use it, I think this is what honestly caused me to cringe the most in this game.

[@sharpie11112]

I agree it was pretty funny to hear

[@damedley75]

I think it might be more accurate to say he had great disruptor HITS rather than great disruptor control. Still, they're very difficult units to use! I can't control them as well as this. I'm ~3k with Protoss.

[@VAPhillyFan54]

Hamster is absolutely on fire in this one. Tips everywhere! Great video quality and format from both of you.

[@myselfthethird3393]

21:20 , that attack was painful to watch , a handful of zealots would had solved so much issue in that fight ! plus hugging the enemy with your own stalkers isnt the best to keep your army alive XD

[@christophhofland8890]

The TLDW of this video I cant just attack up a ramp into siege tanks?! terran so imba omg.

[@dragonslair951167]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of army compositions are best for taking head-on engagements as Terran? MM/MMM is my comfort zone and it certainly feels decent at fighting head-on so long as you maintain vision, but I'm wondering if there's something better, or if Terran just isn't built to fight the enemy on their terms.

[@nar2130]

Excellent job on the efficiency counters Hamster! That they just slowly crept into view cracked me up. Well dissected as always my Captain!

[@benlockwood7091]

loved the stuff about sensory overload of bad play

[@llllllllllllllIIlIllIIllIIIIll]

i did not know what attack move was until i was in plat

[@hamster_designs]

Yeah. It took me months to figure out how to unload medivacs while moving as well when I started, ngl... Starcraft 2 really is not the easiest game to get into xD

[@fly1ngsh33p7]

37:10 "Sun Tzu says..." - seriously: a bit of Sabaton while playing SC2 cannot hurt :D

[@prophet6678]

23:50 A high Templar with a stats of an archon. NICE

[@hamster_designs]

He has been working out, alright?!

[@markustedsen7539]

By just watching this and listening i went to Gild Div 1 with Protoss. Very informative and shows that i can still learn, i am ususally Zerg and am Silver, now my Protoss play is better than my Favorite Race

[@thewired4607]

I main terran and have higher elo with toss too. Toss is just easier then anything else

[@kabine1]

I'm gunna have to find the BGMWSS called "static offense"

[@nathanepp7807]

lmao "Ideally you wouldn't make decisions either" solid gold.

[@beng2080]

WOW! your content has become amazing recently. Keep it up!

[@jcechanowicz]

Who does Harstem's video production? I'm noticing the in-video comment regarding diamond players near the 23min mark.

[@hamster_designs]

It's a me! Not Mario!

[@BoomBangBurn]

Imagine going almost pure stalker and never getting blink...

[@usnationalist]

@20:39 ... holy crap. I had no idea there were fast and slow pylons. Has that always been an SC2 thing?

[@JarmamStuff]

It was added after WoL's pylon warpin shenanigans. You could fast warpin on any pylon, even without vision. 4-gating off 1 base was a terrifying strategy for a long time

[@firestarter000001]

Heh I actually played against ElGrEeEn on the ladder :). Against me he was pretty damn good for Plat, used abit weird build orders, but he was very fast and did never ending harass. I was wining till the middile, then he slowly killed me with the never ending harass, loosing a few probes every time

[@henningbreede6428]

No, that's just the typical phenomenon that people believe their opponents are better in game than when watching from the outside, especially with a pro explaining. He very likely played just as nonsensical as here and you'd see that if you would look at the replay.

[@firestarter000001]

@@henningbreede6428 Thanks for judging me , when you dont know anything about me. I have watched in the past my replay at least 3 times and I stand by what i said . If you think 207 apm is normal for Platinum, then i dont know what to say to you.

[@vladislavkaras491]

It was both interesting, funny and painfull for eyes to see those low elo games! Continue on with it! :D Thanks for the video!

[@sharpie11112]

Idk if you can say his spending was good when he didnt make anything from his 6 gates from 4-8 min....

[@Wicked_Goblin]

I absolutely love this segment. I also like that among us segment you did awile back

[@wasfas1977]

23:43 That high templar is pretty tanky.

[@damedley75]

Ah! Great catch!

[@dylansevitt]

Honestly the way Solari plays I actually do believe he'd have an easier time playing terran. He constantly had his robo producing, and made enough production to support infinite unit production. His probe production sucks but terran is pretty forgiving on low eco.

[@tbird81]

Plus he had the salty attitude of a Terran.

[@JOE0671]

I dom't think so. He didn't ever control his army and terran is the one race that relies on good micro more than the others. Nearly every unit Terran makes has to be microed in a fight. MMM, tanks, libs, ghosts

[@dylansevitt]

@@JOE0671 honestly he had decent micro for plat he hit like 7 shots with his disruptors. He just had a terrible army composition and fought bio with stalkers. If the army comp was flipped I think he would have won most those engagements just stim a-moving. Stalker sentry disruptor is probably a more complicated more fragile army than anything terran has...

[@hivetech4903]

@@JOE0671 There's not much micro with Terran below Masters, don't need to make Ghosts or Libs. The problem is Terran is probably the least forgiving with build order mistakes, and all Plats have zero build orders lol.

[@poo2uhaha]

Thanks editor for reading my previous comment! The notifications are less intrusive now :)

[@supercables251]

35:30 The stamps have different ink distribution each time. Wow, I'm impressed!

[@anamorfoplasis]

A simple filter I think but still...

[@pointsevendesign8140]

he never got blink btw

[@cklempay17]

This video was really helpful for me. I have a duel with a 110 year old next week, I’ve postponed for the week after

[@0815Snickersboy]

It sems like people in lower leagues have way more fun. Thats where you're wrong my friend!

[@tdl1315]

Hate how the protoss was using basically noting but stalkers yet he didnt bother to research blink. If anything, i think this shows how protoss are imba whit how much mistakes a protoss player can make and still drag the game out for 30 minutes

[@henningbreede6428]

Did you conveniently forget about protoss being massively far ahead almost the entire game?

[@thalanoth]

24:17 it's the first time I've ever seen a bc die to a cannon lol

[@Avermra]

wow Episode spoils itself at 0:07

[@reinux]

As another plat, I aspire to be roasted this hard by Harstem someday.

[@Szerspliexiust]

16:46 Engergy

[@RomanShigapov]

Many useful tips for low level Toss players like me, thnx Cptn!

[@Etropalker]

How do play mass stalker for 26 minutes, and not get blink?

[@aussiecara4334]

The warp-ins efficiency Tab is very nice. How I can get this? Or is this only created for the video and no feature included at Starcraft II?

[@damedley75]

10:45 Shocking under utilization of warp gates!

[@danielskrivan6921]

22:45 Does this mean we'll see the Harstem B2GM series soon?

[@KhanjoOfEthiopia]

this one sounds like an open and shut case if he's saying he knows his micro, macro, build order, and game knowledge are all bad right at the start

[@acipswich]

HARSTEM! I got a question: I understand that more infrastructure means less money to build units and I love those piece of advice in terms of optimizing builds/timings. But assuming that at the low levels, we arent constantly even building probes (ergo not optimizing warp units), is there a universe in where if this particular person followed your advice and have done 2 Gateways but build units out of them in a less recurring way (money accumulated), he could be worse off at a moment in the future? (being attacked and not being able to warp more than 2 units at a time). Wouldnt it be better he had more gateways since in those warps he could build more units? The same idea when you play teams and you already have like 4-5 expansions....you build as many gates as you can so you can warp more units at very team fight.

[@richardhauer8391]

Why would you want gatewayunits after you already have 5 expos in a team game? Carriers are pretty strong and in team games they are even better, because with there is no hardcounter. Also, when it comes to the adding more production than necessary, spending money on useless stuff ruins important timings; even in lower leagues it makes a big difference. Just a minute of uninterrupted macro can give your opponent a doubled army size. I am pretty sure Solari could have just a-moved to win at 9:30 if he hadn't invested so much into stuff that is useless if he just wants to basetrade anyway. Or look for example Harstem's TvT here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqmwgKeNn8x_p5Y (the second game) He looses pretty hard, but still makes a comeback because his opponent floats a bit of money.

[@dizastro5437]

Too much infrastructure is like building a road to a place where no one lives. It does no good unless you have the economy strong enough to use it.

[@damedley75]

I try to look at my money and supply after every round of spending and beef up production if I have any to spare. I wouldn't want to do the reverse and build tons of production and only make units out of my existing production if I had money to spare.

[@thewired4607]

I cant endure life anymore

[@jaybyhop]

24:40 I had to learn that. I used to just mass stalks and then learned having charge lots with them to wreck everything else while I micro the important units, I'm good.

[@Cenikid]

Need a harstem voice pack for multiplayer

[@TeamTDU]

love the gateway efficiency chart lol

[@domagojkosmina648]

Beating grandmaster with stupid stuff random idea: play using only "light" Khalali side protoss units or "dark" Nerazim side protoss units, determined randomly at the start of each game. So if you roll Dark, you can only build stalkers, dark templar, voidray, etc..

[@damedley75]

0:10 gotta respect the honesty

[@tarasbilobran3431]

30:10 epic pause

[@Jobutron1]

The second sentence of the report already solved this case, hahaha.

[@artemirrlazaris7406]

The problem I see is over infrastructure... without the assets ... so... two warp gates is worth three zealots or about 2 stalkers.... minus the gas... As soon as his enemy had a raven... He could of dropped to star ports which is more forgivable, and build some air ot kill teh tanks or remove the raven/ harrass.. Plus.. Protoss air except observor is so good at scouting nav/path routes... in quick succession. At the 11 minute mark... Terran has isoalted himself in his base... this is where he could use his robitics bay and build some observors for watching if Terran ever expands super cheap.... wit hthree obs... or keep building and army, cycle the north and east lanes otwards center, then patrol and keep the terran boxed in with simpyl a patrol snipe retreat method... and cycle the obs ot the lateral sides ofr possbile sneak medivac,s but at the eleveln minute mark... The opponenet is super turtling and struggling... and half as many probes.... but terran might invest those extra thousand minerals into say, military units.. SO taht is somethign ot be aware of.. if you stop/ force a player not to expand... they potentailly can win if you keep building probes and expand, simpyl becasue they could end up having 2/1 army in whihc yo ucan't build enough units to coutner the force... a 2/1 ratio in a battle typically the player with more units comes out Way ahead... like at most a 1/3 of their army is neutralized... so it stil larger then the later.. becasue colelctive firing is elimianting units at a faster rate... Then he never had blink... when using a stalker.. in my mind if I have x of a certain unit, I jsut upgrade all of that unit, just because.... typcally it all adds a benefit, to somethign I am using as a primary at the moment...

[@unknownkw]

I think he faked a one based all-in knowing that the enemy reaper sees his gates. The 6 units stopped the enemy expo from mining for a long time without over extending, he saved supply to boost econ without building any unit after first 6 that were not warped in. He was so far ahead that he should retreat after forcing out the enemy natural for the THIRD time, It looks like his build was totally fine, but it was the decision making that was at fault. He should have an observer or hallucinated unit to check what was up the ramp, because taking tank shots with the colosi is not the way. That's all I'd asked for. I think you can do a BGMWSS using similar build as his (6 units from gateways, 3 gates fast warpgate, stop the enemy expo and expand after it). It has potential because that looks like a one-base proxy 4 gate all-in while it really isn't. And you can't really die if the enemy move out as two waves of warp is going to save you from a counter attack. After the terran rushing out units to anticipate the onslaught the protoss was so far ahead that he made really bad fight but was still ahead for a long time.

[@ade1234123]

I love that sensor tower placement 🙂

[@shavais33]

The reason tin league players like me add a lot of production is because we cannot for the life of us constantly produce out of a production building. We can't consistently constantly do anything! "Oh crap I'm not producing out of that building!" we realize, after 20 or 30 or 40 or 60 seconds of wasted potential production time. So the only way to end up with any kind of army while we're young is to make a bunch of production and stick them all on a hotkey then quick queue up a bunch of units all at once when we finally remember to produce units at all.

[@bisholia]

Pretty decent idea that can either generate some community activity or just for good laughs. BGMWSS: Use either viewer submitted build orders or build orders from the complainers of "Is it imba" If you'd like you can complain to your opponent in the game about how "imba" something they're doing is.

[@hamster_designs]

I think that comes pretty close to a past project called "KZbin plays SC2" ^^ kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZOqnIl3jNWgntk&ab_channel=Harstem

[@moawik4864]

That prerecord thing i actually do in LoL, i forget to look at the map in small fights and then iften go in even tl the enemie jungler comes. So i use a video in the back where a guys says "Map" for an hour

[@Toxicblackmambahs]

I played someone yesterday who made a bunch of cannons and shield batteries at his 3rd. I decided to skip his 3rd and went straight to his 2nd and main base to destroy his production lol. It was funny on the reply watching from the guy's prospective when I did that, it was like "why the !@#$ you not attacking my 3rd?!?!!" haha

[@vsaucerinokripperino7223]

Part of the reason I stopped playing SC2, I just can't take a good fight to save my life, playing as zerg, it felt like your army had to be perfectly tailored to counter your opponent. Protoss late game felt unbeatable, and Mech felt unbeatable.

[@dominikmagnus]

22:57 Speak for yourself, Hamster. ;)

[@hamster_designs]

I feel a sense of challenge.

[@katsu6934]

ty harstem ive found my new guide to protoss

[@neodymus]

As a platinum Eu player myself, i confirm this is our level of play (Left hand only challenge .-. )

[@drenth27]

i love the how savage you are to these people that make outragous claims well playing poorly

[@CookDinger]

I’m actually really surprised the Protoss wasn’t submitting an IODIS form complaining about Terran battlecruisers! Those BC’s absolutely dismantled his economy single-handedly!

[@andreashalbfeld7671]

You're a content MACHINE!

[@Hurtone]

I think Harstem was correct, but also wrong at one point. SPOILER: At 10.30 Solari decides to walk his stalkers into 3 auto-turrets, rather than pulling his probes. However, IF he had pulled his probes I bet they would all have died to the mine which shoots just after. Now, this is obviously not something Solari considered, and my point is actually... pointless. ;)

[@januszkurahenowski2860]

If you lose against a guy who is on the level where he adds random Thors and Battlecruisers to his army because they are cool robots and therefore have to be great, the problem might actually be you and not imbalance. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people complained that a single thor with 0/0 upgrades in the mix with the terran army is super OP if they lose to it after making 20 mistakes in a row

[@raoren]

You are Great!

[@brandonhargis4104]

I think you need to start featuring Toss replays my guy. When's the last time a toss player won a major tournament? You're a toss player. What's more likely? Every toss player sucks? Or the game is slightly imbalanced towards Protoss.

[@sharpasacueball]

I keep screaming "blink" in my mind watching this guy play

[@arthurl4300]

Harstem IIODIS announcer pack when

[@hamster_designs]

I doubt Harstem would turn it down if Blizzard asked him ^^

[@jpVari]

I haven't gotten past the opening email yet and I already see something that drives me nuts. 'I already had a third when he started his natural mining'. that smelled dishonest to me. then a sentence later suddenly he's on '2.5' bases, whatever that means. very curious to see what the actual truth is when the terran starts mining at his natural. edit - here I sit, in utter shock, that the line about when the terran starts mining at his natural is a complete lie.

[@ssvensic]

1.A-move blindly into to the tank line 2.????? 3.Profit

[@yoshiman9521]

30:40 "i like the disruptor control" please check the disruptor shot at around 30:26 on the bunker

[@Flair-CC]

Is it weird that one my first day of playing Sc2 (the ladder I mean…I’ve beater the first campaign) that I got straight to plat? Idk if that’s common or not…maybe it’s just due to the fact that I watch a lot of casts…

[@fdcrat]

That can easily happen. In the beginning, the game doesn't know your skill level, so it can match you against quite random opponents. A few wins out of the first 5 games can place you in platinum or maybe gold 1. You will never be placed lower by just playing, but you might be placed lower in the next season if your MMR drops below around 2800. It happened to me too.

[@JarmamStuff]

Given that you can cannonrush to high master I'd say no

[@henningbreede6428]

@@JarmamStuff You can cannonrush to GM, but it's not something a noob can do.

[@henningbreede6428]

It's a statistics problem, even with 5 losses in your placement matches the game won't put you at the lowest level. Plat is kind of in the middle so if you get very low level opponents in placements and beat some, then the game is kinda forced to put you into plat. It's unlikely for you to stay in plat if you play 20 more games and play the placement match for the next season.

[@allanturmaine5496]

2/3 of the way through I started feeling bad for the constant roasting. My god. This one was harsh.

[@tjv323]

What the fuck. I've been playing SC2 (on and off) for 14 years and this is the first time I've heard of "slow" and "fast" warp in pylons

[@AntiDoctor-cx2jd]

he nailed it about having fun being bad lol. It looks like abuse to play the way pro plays.

[@Gustavo19598]

I think its a “set”. If a race is imba and have a unit imba, then it must be balanced. Otherwise if a race is not imba but have a unit imba. Let it go!