This is the best Protoss I've ever seen. StarCraft 2 (Serral vs Reynor)

[@christophergarcia2582]

This is the most violent Protoss I’ve seen. What a game!

[@orangepearlf40]

I LOVE IT It's a zerg on the keyboard playing as toss and fighting zerg. I tell ya, theres nothing serral can do that reynor's not aware of.

[@MattMarshallUK]

As a Protoss bias viewer, this is both brilliant and tragic in equal amounts. Brilliant because Protoss has beaten Serral in a convincing, brawl of a game. Tragic because it took a Zerg player to do it 😂

[@davidpage7900]

Reynor wins as Protos! Over Serral... unbelievaable!

[@jsonkody]

@@davidpage7900 no .. this just shows that Zerg is incredible hard to manage while Toss is just OP .. so every Zerg top player has incredible skills to manage and when he play less demanding race that is also so strong like Toss .. well you just saw it :)

[@shawnmorita5821]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@teddanville6996]

@@jsonkodyprotoss is stronger late game but the reality is currently no protoss player is good at late game (maybe showtime but it’s difficult for him to get through clem serral reynor in the EU). Radhuset is a map that you can easily get to late game, but all Zerg will ban this map against Protoss and on other maps Zerg just kill Toss in 10 minutes.

[@KotaDeLaSkytoss]

This was amazing. Never seen a Protoss being so agressive this way. And Raynor did not even used Disruptors. I have no words. One of the best matches I've ever seen.

[@ZC.Andrew]

Hero used to play like this, back in his prime golden days.

[@bongkem2723]

​@@ZC.Andrewhe still plays like this, constant pressure, that's how he can beat Dark the final boss ;)

[@ZC.Andrew]

@@bongkem2723 I love HerO! I hope he dominates in Dreamhack this year.

[@peterk2735]

I was sent this game by a fellow SC nerd and totally one of the best games I’ve seen. So happy for these young guys, Serral was born when the original SC came out and Reynor was like 9-10 when I was playing ranked SC2 in high school. Seeing the level they play at and their mastery of the game is absolutely mind blowing 👍

[@danieljung2810]

Protos played like Zerg, mind blown. His micro and attacking the two sides with impeccable timing before Seral could capitalize on his backline assets was amazing. He pulls Seral's front line, exposing his backline, where he takes out the expensive brood lords made me watch this video three times.

[@motan7864]

we never had so many games of the year in one year! thank you Winter!

[@benlynch7577]

Well said

[@ToeMass123]

😆👍

[@Atavisten]

He cannot help that the keep exceeding one another, time after time 😁

[@jeffreyrook8073]

Reynor is just the classic story of the hero who was raised by the enemy, so when he returns home, he knows best how to defeat them.

[@adamshurtz6761]

That was hands down the best protoss play I've ever seen. I genuinely thought that zerg late game composition at the pro level was essentially OP but Raynor showing it can be done through microing avg units. Dope

[@adamparmak3575]

A player who finally understands the aggressive potential of the protoss.

[@KimmyR3]

yes, and you need 500+ APM for it.

[@Cephalopopo]

​​@@KimmyR3you need 500 apm to play any race at that level.

[@KimmyR3]

not really.. plenty of pro games peaking at 350-400.. Reynor here is peaking at 700+ while Serral is 450-500

[@adamparmak3575]

@@KimmyR3 yeahhh I hope you know that more than half of it is spam.

[@doltecbyal]

​@@adamparmak3575 So that makes it Reynor 350 APM vs Serral 250 APM. Still 100 more APM than Serral.

[@riftandrend5254]

The ground army, and stalkers in particular had so much impact in those endgame fights. The aggressive blinks zoning out spellcasters and sniping targets of opportunity was a pleasure to watch.

[@Coooro9]

I don't know how to play starcraft, I don't know what's going on but the KZbin algorithm threw me your video and your video introduction is the most humble intro I have seen in many years so I dropped a like for you and I hope you get many more sir, you seem like an amazing person a wish you the best in what you are doing. I hope you are having an amazing day too!

[@GLayne]

Stick around for the most professional StarCraft 2. It makes all of my days just a little bit better. :)

[@shellyu1442]

Double recall is exactly how Protoss should be used!

[@justinmarlin6446]

Exactly what I was thinking!

[@davidfournier9839]

First time in year's I've seen a Protoss split their army...

[@ZatralTMF]

I'm so excited to see someone playing two races

[@Dragooncore]

I like how Reynor split up his forces. Most Protoss ball up most of the time

[@vladmatei1958]

Serral also plays zerg with his left hand while allegedly playing protoss with his right hand under the alias MaxPax.

[@JSs586]

Now this is what Amon from the campaign aims for: Protoss/Zerg hybrid that destroys the galaxy.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

Reynor, who made a career by defining himself as the opposition; the challenger to Serral's position of dominance; switches it up to stick it to his old nemesis once again

[@tomas19298]

Winter comments with such vigour and power it is intoxicating and makes me wana watch one game after another... at 02:00 at night and never stop... You are best SC2 commentator!

[@SpaceCowboy-D]

Protoss played Zerg style is so destructive.

[@garryarganis5801]

this was so good i watched the video twice, holy shit reynor is built different.

[@michaelhellwig421]

Only Reynor can play like that! He was controlling four armies and microing them at the same time! What a game man!!!

[@SiyaKhumalo]

What a masterclass on PvZ! The fact that Reynor is a Zerg player is absolutely ridiculous and unbelievable. He is one of the most versatile SC2 players in the world right now.

[@jennifer_dreamzzz]

Watching this game makes it seem like every other Protoss player is just lazy 😬

[@ManDuderGuy]

As a lazy Protoss I can fully confirm.

[@costlyhornet9994]

Love you

[@jennifer_dreamzzz]

@@costlyhornet9994 Love you too x

[@aventus1177]

Omg 😂 I can’t unsee this now while watching other Protoss

[@jennifer_dreamzzz]

@@aventus1177 I knowwww I'm sorrrrry lmao 😂😂

[@rayguzman5]

Reynor switching race feels like I am watching a brand new Toss player that I am massively rooting for xd

[@crescentmoon2806]

Man that was a greatest game I've seen in forever That was so clean Protoss play

[@FinoClips]

I never imagined Protoss beating zerg in this way. Unbelievable!

[@TheRealJonster]

This was one of the best games I've ever watched!! High octane action! APM through the roof, you love to see it

[@ezmackgaming]

Winter: The game is starting to slow down. Reynor: 600 APM

[@lexxlucre]

I was like, what is Winter smoking? Best Protoss from a ZERG PLAYER.... well... damn.

[@jonathanbody3890]

That was the greatest P v Z I've ever seen

[@samwise3342]

These do always make my day a bit better, appreciate it!! Entertaining for sure! Thank you

[@allhailderpfestor4839]

Late game with constant action instead of army just sitting dancing for 5 min before final engagement? Sign me in.

[@JacksonJoseph-Eugene]

serral beaten in a 35 minutes long match ? wow incredible !! reminds me hero vs Dark. I hope we can see more of Serral Vs Raynor in the future I love how raynor used most of the toolset of the protoss. Especially the sentry. Force fields saved units. And using halucinated units againt broodlings is brilliant ! he also leveraged air control early in the game, showing that a couple phenixes are sufficient to deny most of zerg's scouting. Also the worker harrass of a phenix and 2 oracles was very well done. He won not because of a gimmick or luck, but because of all the little details and separated battles he won over 35 minutes. beautifull Raynor is now the best protoss in the world. incredible

[@theculturedgentleman3699]

Ricky who EVOLVED into war-veteran Richard was the MVP and the highlight of this match lol!

[@dunngyllite7883]

that moment at the end of the game, when the commentator seriously contemplates his life choices....

[@adoi8467]

those aggressive stalkers blink are amazing, serral stopped making as many lurkers after he saw carriers i think.

[@TripWithTheMoon]

Serral and Reynor making a show for the HSC-Crowd and to fool us into Protoss would be competetive 🤣

[@ZC.Andrew]

MaxPax would like a word with you

[@hadongan]

I started watching your content about 6 months ago. This is the Protoss I was used to watching in the first SC2, I've been wondering why there aren't many extreme micro Protoss players lately that use spell/ability mobs to higher capacity, this is the first force field i've seen in ages!

[@glassberg5018]

What, you mean you don't like Protoss Players dropping random force fields against bio terran that do nothing

[@hadongan]

@@glassberg5018 as in first ice seen toss force fields against zerg in 6months Of course I'm only watching winter there may be those micro games elsewhere

[@glassberg5018]

@@hadongan Yeah I agree, I feel like it used to be way more common. I think the Sentry in general is underused and would love to see it show up more often

[@Salmacream]

It's so fun to see a zergtos style game.

[@xeru98]

Ok I take it all back. I always watched serral and thought "man zerg is broken af"... turns out zerg players are just better

[@whiteerdydude]

No, zerg is broken af. Serral didn't take his opponent seriously and paid the price lol in super smash Brothers ultimate a top 10 player playing fox once loss a tournament set to another top 10 player playing ganondorf. Fox beats ganon like 7/10 games all else equal. That top player got into his own head and beat himself losing three(!) Games in a row to his best matchup and a player he was just whooping. Don't be fooled, this was a fluke.

[@secretly_obamas_boyfriend]

I play pure random at about diamond 1 and all the races are pretty much balanced. My worst is got to be terran idk why I am just bad at it. protoss and zerg are my favorite and there pretty much even on difficulty and balance.@@whiteerdydude

[@Amateur2CombaT]

@@secretly_obamas_boyfriend what a cute comment

[@oponomo]

Everyone being honest with themselves know that protoss is the easiest to play and zerg the hardest. So if you master zerg you are better it's just facts.

[@Amateur2CombaT]

@@oponomo I agree with Protoss being easiest at least macro wise. (And I m Protoss myself) but I wouldnt say Zerg is harder than Terran.

[@0Sybylle0]

See, easy to beat Zerg as Protoss, you just need all the units, max upgrades and 500 apm! /s Incredible skill display on both sides.

[@oponomo]

Correction, you need to master zerg first then you can play good protoss.

[@okachobe1]

It's almost like the zerg player was/is the best SC2 player in the world. And got beat by someone roughly equal playing their off race. I'm sure serral would probably stand a better chance in a Bo5 since Raynor probably doesn't have many toss builds yet so he'd get hard countered at some point imo.

[@redwings13400]

@@okachobe1I’m wondering if reynor chose Protoss specifically for this map. With such a large and defensive early game map, maybe reynor sees a well microed late game Protoss army as op against Zerg (and he is probably the only person capable of microing this army this well), and this map is the one where it’s relatively easy to get there? Reynors protoss looked absolutely incredible, but he might be on to something with map specific race switches. If he can do that, he’s ridiculously scary to face because he doesn’t need to be able to win a series with Protoss in order to make him dangerous with Protoss. If he can just switch to Protoss on certain maps vs Zerg, then he can still use his regular swarm on the more Zerg favored maps, while getting the upper hand on maps he might otherwise struggle with.

[@bvaroni]

Let's take a moment to contemplate how much better of an experience it is to watch Winter castings than the official GSL casters'. Just watched the latest GSL and I wanted to equalise the guy's voice.

[@firefly3743]

Thermy smiling seeing mothership recall and dropper lord 😂😂😂

[@kaihaoliu7869]

holy fk that late game

[@Amateur2CombaT]

Best game I have ever seen ! Both players are so incredibly good !

[@joeblow2069]

The key for those few players who successfully changed their race is that they did it permanently. They did not dabble in a 2nd race. Scarlet tried to dabble in Protoss but never completely changed. All pros will play other races for practice. Those who watched Dark stream would know that he was a very high level Terran. When a player has such high level of skill and speed that Reynor has he can be a top player in any race if he committed himself to it.

Díky!

[@fyhaskamdig]

Hahaha i love your commentary. “a cinematic of zealots”. Good job!

[@wolvie90]

Worth noting about the subject of race picking/switching, the Broodwar legend Flash plays Random in ASL and still competes at top 8 level. Skills transcends race.

[@peterk2735]

Flash vs Jaedong….I remember watching so many of their legendary games as a kid, they played perfectly. Macro, micro, apm, adaptability….Serral and Clem give me the same vibes these days

[@Jakub_Zajicek]

How to beat Serral with protoss: 1. Play zerg 2. Become the top 2 zerg outside Korea, potentialy world 3. switch to protoss and adapt the playstyle you learnt in your zerg tutorial 4. profit

[@bvaroni]

Protoss fits him best. I guess Reach would be proud if the Italian Stallion would become the SC2 "Man toss"

[@jennifer_dreamzzz]

Woo yes!! Been looking forward to this, thank youuu 💙💜

[@FrelanceEQ]

34:00 Units lost : 19 Interceptors, 3 Void Ray 3 Tempest, but *no Carriers*

[@tori5111]

holy cow. after the underwhelming results of reynor as protoss, seeing himm play this good is absolutely astonishing

[@alejandrosanchezsalcedo7076]

What a cool game, and even a win for toss! GG

[@anthonyfaiell3263]

Just wanted to say, I just recently picked up SC2. I'm a total noob. Your videos have been really helpful for me. I'm sure veterans enjoy them too, but it's really nice to see all these different high level games explained.

[@barrygeistwhite3474]

Holy dog that was gross. Well done, Reynor!

[@Gredddfe]

The only time I cheer for protoss against zerg, and the only time I cheer for anyone against Serral. What a champion Reynor!

[@proactivex]

Was hoping for an extended rant! That was amazing.

[@Fede.i.M.]

Mannnnnn that was amazing goddamit Raynor

[@ArmstrongAlley]

This was great. I wish Reynor would switch to Protoss permanently, never seen a Protoss game like this one.

[@MaBosco]

"Like a wet paper bag. A dry paper bag", epic

[@urazoktay7940]

Amazing match! Thank you for the video! I thoroughly enjoyed it. :D

[@Fam0usFarm3r]

Babe, wake up, its 12:49 and I just saw Winter's new video. AND it's a protoss game to boot! In regards to your opening comments about PvZ, I agree Zerg is the king of going unchecked, so to me it stands to reason that the other two races are effectively on a clock, unless you can go the distance and mine the map more efficiently, but thats a long time to hold, and Zerg deathball is even better than Protoss's thanks to vipers being able to slowly eat valuable gas units. I can't watch another split map PvZ where the Toss just losses a carrier here, tempest there, and eventually just runs out of gas (literally) and the zerg is able to trade armies then remax and A move with their bank.

[@sagan61]

That’s the most dynamic SC2 I’ve seen is like X2 insane.

[@LegendaryRiot]

Now that is how protoss is meant to be played. This might have been the best game I’ve ever seen. Every upgrade, nearly every unit, all kinds of strategy, and an unnecessary amount of APM. GG

[@McJealous]

I always enjoy.. man your commentary on these games is great. I haven't played in 10years. But I still always love to watch your videos so. Thankyou. Winter. For keeping me in the loop 🥰

[@Pabmyster]

Just goes to show how hard Protoss has to work just to be relevant 😂 now imagine doing that for 5-10 games to beat Serral

[@bt920]

Wow what an amazing aggressive Protoss play! I learned so much from watching this game.

[@kwanbox]

I have never seen a toss Zerg before

[@okachobe1]

Transitioning into a late game comp?! It can be done!

[@GrippeeTV]

Honestly? Reynor should switch to Toss. With the insane speed he plays at, he can play it a way no other toss can. This game was just phenomenal. Serral even had the god tier late game army that most protoss players would agree is just unbeatable and Reynor completely dismantled it and made Serral look like DRG

[@milanaleksic8979]

No carriers were hurt in the making of this video.

[@richardly1543]

Sure Reynor may not be the best Protoss in SC2. But he's not playing SC2, he's playing Serral

[@IEHD01]

Wow, that Zerg playstyle with Protoss is just nasty.

[@eud64_]

It's confirmed, it takes 500apm to play efficiently the ultimate Protoss. Way to go Reynor

[@irey6504]

Probably the best game I've ever seen! Great casting!

[@MadArtillery]

Now that's some protoss gameplay. Love the aggressive style!

[@Leo-pr7ly]

ok Kudos to Reynor, haven't seen a Pro Protoss playing that good.

[@StarboyXL9]

Reynor, like a true Zerg, is evolving.

[@Cephalopopo]

Is this the first actual strategy game that involved a protos? This is incredible - but seeing this, no wonder serral stomps these real protos players since they seem to always attack from one angle. Here raynor used a lot of different strategies and nimble tactics, suddenly serral was the one getting flanked. Really cool and honestly exciting. Raynor did not win because he is so fast, he really was the better strategist and tactician .

[@Omniraptorr]

at 14:24 serral forced out the recall but didn't really have any other units in position to apply pressure besides the drop up north, uncharacteristic of him. i think he was planning to push from the nydus to the of reynor's fourth base but unfortunately reynor went and cleared the nydus right before the overlord drop landed.

[@sinomirneja771]

H didn't say he would cast another series anyways! It's a threat!

[@TrickyAres]

Just remember Innovation was a nod player before he switched to gdi

[@chloesmith4065]

This is a very underrated comment

[@ManDuderGuy]

So good that I'm watching it a 2nd time on the Wintercast :)

[@TritonTv69420]

Hell yea. Can't beat um join um. I bet Reynor felt like a badass blink stalkering those broods hahahaha!

[@DiscombobulatingName]

I think the current crop of protoss other than MaxPax just aren't up to snuff, and Reynor's proving it here. When HerO, the race's current number 2 and number 1 for so long before that, loses so many games because he F2s his warp prism or walling unit, I can't take the idea that the other top protosses are the same caliber as the top zergs/terrans too seriously.

[@adamparmak3575]

game of the year for me

[@Willywyn]

Wild though that Serral's corruptors were so far out of position for the last few engagements of the match - continously dancing around the ground army with nothing to hit but not in position to screen and protect the broodlords. The ultras looked like they stayed parked in the north as well so was really only fighting with like 80% of his army most of the time?

[@antoinetarant6025]

Does Raynor play with a 2nd keyboard at his feet ?

[@ckimsey77]

Most badass game I've seen in about 6 years

[@orangepearlf40]

Reynors toss makes the top tier toss's look boring and traditional. Reynors toss is BEAST MODE!! OMG!

[@suzukaiv5987]

feedback on viper really makes viper humble quick

[@MrSlaughterrific]

This is the future of protoss

[@Phi1618033]

Pretty sure the Italian Stallion is Rocky Balboa.

[@Sergey-r5w]

Reyanor plays awesome but not forget that late game is a Serral ace

[@brycecox8249]

anything that isnt Serral vs Clem now feels like I'm watching at half speed post this cup

[@hilmi802]

Lets get to that 1208 likes 😂. I haven’t watched the whole thing yet but I’m sure it’s gonna blast of a game

[@reactivereplays5666]

"The World champion Zerg; spawning as Protoss"...

[@JanellePoniente]

One of the best games Ive ever watched