This is why Moon is the BEST ELF against HUMAN - Moon vs SoK - WC3 - Grubby

Today we're taking a look at Moon's replay againt SoK in a fierce Night Elf vs Human matchup, and we'll see how old dog Moon is still an insanely gifted player when it comes to this matchup!
This is why Moon is the BEST ELF against HUMAN (Game played on 29-August-2023)
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[@EricM93]

I can't even explain how happy it makes me that it is the year 2023 and Grubby is not only still playing the greatest game ever, wc3, but getting 50k+ views for doing it. Legendary game, legendary player!

[@biigmonee]

that is so lit fam

[@dojoisdead]

I love that Moon still plays. He was the first pro W3 player I ever saw. Moon vs Sky

[@wolpumba4099]

*Summary* *Players Introduction* - 0:01: Introduction of a long-awaited match between a human and night elf. - 0:08: The best Warcraft 3 player in the world, Moon, is playing. - 0:15: Moon's opponent is a player known as SOK. *Game Strategies and insights* - 0:30: SOK is described as the best human player in the world at the moment. - 1:03: Discussion on how different players excel at different match-ups. - 1:16: Moon is particularly good against Undead and human players. - 1:54: Moon and SOK start the game, with SOK deciding not to immediately expand his base for strategic reasons. *Gameplay Details* - 3:10: SOK maintains continuous peasant and footman production for a healthy pressure and income. - 4:01: The Naga Sea Witch is picked as it deals well with pressure. - 4:30: Moon makes a tier one and a half expansion. - 5:03: Discussion on the importance of workplace safety in the game. *Anecdotes* - 6:19: Anecdote about how a squirrel blocked SOK's hero, costing him a significant amount of gold. - 6:45: Personal anecdote about seeing a squirrel for the first time. *Game Progression* - 7:22: SOK chooses Pit Lord as his second hero, which is unusual. - 8:40: Explanation of why Pit Lord is a good choice due to its tankiness and passive ability. - 9:48: SOK is saving up a lot of money by staying at 50 population. - 11:03: Moon's Dryad and Naga are applying pressure on SOK. - 12:13: SOK starts getting upgrades for his units. *Game Strategies and Tactics* - 13:54: Moon sets up for a long game with a third Tree of Life. - 15:09: SOK loses his Archmage in a fight, but kills a Mountain Giant. - 15:46: Moon takes the second best item he could find, the Brilliance Aura. - 16:57: Moon sacrifices a Mountain Giant to save up food and go back to low upkeep. - 17:02: SOK loses two knights in a fight, putting him at a disadvantage. *Game Conclusion* - 19:10: Moon successfully defends his base against SOK. - 20:50: SOK is in a bad position to fight and is forced to TP out. - 22:09: Moon introduces a third hero, the Priestess of the Moon. - 22:56: SOK's units start to drop low and Moon is able to take down his army. - 23:04: Moon wins the match. - 23:32: End of the match and the game commentary.

[@ZeroFate643]

Pitlord really needed an invulnerability potion and a ring of protection in those fights. He's supposed to be the main DPS of the army yet every fight he's running back low health.

[@QD77]

Maybe Moon bought them all ?? I mean I guess they know how to play ;)

[@macsenhayes]

Yeah, but also he spent too much on inner fire when his priests should have healed the pitlord full-up. Was surprised that the human wasn't able to some back to each fight with more health and just chip away.

[@kevin-7091]

@@macsenhayes Either you use Inner fire to lose less health, or save mana by not using inner fire and ended up having to spend more mana on heal, i would say the first one is the better choice

[@danielschomburg2140]

What a replay! Seeing both players willing to go into high upkeep as they fight over red creeps with game changing drops really influenced the game here. I love the use of the MGs here by moon. You'd never get to see the massive unit used back in the day and glad to see it now. GG!

[@Kievlar]

5:49 Grubby casually dropping lyrics of Every Breath You Take in WC3 style. 😂

[@fluteprogressions9242]

These tangents about dumb random things like the squirrels is the main reason I'm here watching these videos. I don't even play Wc3

[@somersault4762]

One of my favorite scenes ever is still the 2vs2 where Grubby played together with Moon in Lost Temple. They were creeping at one of the side branches and got creep jacked. None of them had a TP. Grubby bought the last TP at the Goblin Merchants while Moon got erased. Then both went for base race, Grubby with raiders and in the end they won the game. This game was so fantastic. After the game Grubby laughed a lot and joked with Lucifer what a noob Moon was to get catched there without a TP. Great memories

[@myuan819]

Link? :)

[@DH2point3]

The reasoning behind killing the priest was the highlight. So dead pan while saying it to

[@daydreamers8254]

5:55 LOL i enjoyed that classic song reference. a lot of people, to this day, still do not know that song is about a stalker who is love with a woman and she has no idea bout him and its from his PoV

[@daydreamers8254]

:O whoa you've only seen ONE squirrel ?! that's crazy. but i understand, there's far more animals i've NEVER seen vs the ones i have. i absolutely love squirrels and i think it began when i saw Bob Ross painting with his pet squirrel when i was out of school, sick as a child, at my gma's house. his voice was so relaxing and the sound of his painting would put you to sleep even when feeling sick. i think there's even a semi-new channel on youtube that has ALL of his TV shows or at least a TON of them uploaded for free. which is amazing

[@nemiw4429]

5:40 I never knew about turning speed! Now it makes sense why some heroes catched up with me 😂

[@Dumballa]

A lot of fine details laid out here. For the true WC3 connoisseurs 🍷

[@ProCookin]

Thanks grubby, great commentary

[@SDYellow]

Watching you from Philly on the regular!

[@adevland]

Some of the best squirrel facts you can get in a Warcraft III youtube video.

[@TheKougaxKagome]

"I'd love an expo that can clear a camp on its own." Meanwhile elves out here fighting off walls of muscle with twigs and harsh language.

[@QuickD34th]

"Best human player in the world" - Th000 watches the stream he goes "hold my beer"

[@MichaelThorne_za]

Grubby: Pitlord second? I don't get it. Melon: To do good deeds, of course.

[@daydreamers8254]

also what overlay are you using / where do you get it? to show map name and hero + items in top left? plus player name + race in top ?

[@Ikosaeder11]

Hey grubby, for me as a wc3 noob its not easy to understand what makes happy so much better than everyone else. I would love an explanation along another happy cast.

[@zenitfan4life]

Hi little nooblet. It's simple: his timing,his micro, and his general experience/understanding of the game.

[@somersault4762]

@@zenitfan4life for me it's micro, his map awareness with scouting and aggressive harasses. either dk solo while lich creeps, or dk lich coil nova, while he is back to base with his ghouls lumbering . His weakness is sometimes his overconfidence in his skills always reviving heroes from tavern. And I think in general he is pretty predictable, but often you can't do anything against it because his execution is so strong.

[@anthonypeipert5011]

When I played with the elf's Warcraft I just created an unlimited army of ancients and no one could stopped me

[@kurzackd]

11:03 -- LMFAO :D

[@magusto627]

priest raping peasants :O

[@andrewolejarz5293]

Maybe he touched a little peasant 😂

[@somecostcoguy]

We definitely need more vigilante justice :D

[@bigben9463]

Wc3 is truly the greatest game ever

[@aleger620]

it's only me it's thinking Moon picture make him look like Shang tsung of MK or some asian villain edgelord of some fantasy films ? : 3

[@peterbrad9727]

Killing a mountain giant to save up money is cold but efficient as his hero levels are far ahead. Remind me of ‘House of Card’ or “‘Viking’’

[@tomyanez8844]

great game great cast. Love these casts @grubby

[@ayuwise2262]

Top tier commentary

[@andrewvader1955]

That small Detail about the townhall stopping a hero travel is funny. Their must be tons of camp builds like this. I find it funny how his mage almost died bc of a critter! lol In wow warriors need Rage and hitting targets even a Critter counts! its a small tip to keep the warrior in combat keeping the rage pool up for lvling or pvp. Once warrior is out of combat the rage decay is alot.

[@nemiw4429]

11:23 dude that was dark.

[@ssjmewtwo5448]

Mountain giants with endurance, op

[@mdter]

I've seen the future without squirrels in it, and it was awful. Join team night elf and protect sacred grove near you before humans orcs and undead destroy Earthzeroth!

[@YourMomNDad]

Wish I could play this game but I'll be happy just watching it for now

[@1ordof1o1]

the priest joke killed me

[@Don44Colione]

nice story about the squirrel, but it still was a racoon sir. nice cast tho, big love

[@dalwand]

7m12s Grubby shows off his profound understanding of the English language by utilizing the word "ACQUIESCE". Rumours are surfacing he's not a Dutchie, but an American just faking the accent because chicks love it !

[@user-yq5wb4zm5j]

Хороший матч😮 я прям кайфанул❤

[@WankerTheWetFingers]

21:12 top 10 anime betrayals xD

[@StoicismMovement]

Moon+Happy+Grubby 3v3 team, WHO COULD STOP THEM ?!?

[@TibiaOTarena]

some random russian with crash hack!

[@tarekyared4404]

Surprised you didn't comment on the RIDICULOUS micro with the wisp at 1:35 to deny the kill and save the wisp.

[@TuristaArcsi]

its me, Mario!🎉

[@kevin-7091]

It's quite a common thing in pro plays. Still a good micro, but nothing remarkable

[@94boppers]

i have to know, you called the racoon a squirl, but then you said you never saw one until you were in the us, surly there are plenty of squirls in the netherlands and you ment a racoon, or do you realy not have squirls?

[@Azidonis]

Haven't heard you mention Oge- yet.

[@KKnDAlu]

Gountain Miant :D

[@BlackMandragon]

I feel like getting both of those items made a difference.

[@somersault4762]

For sure, but I would say overall the hero experience made the difference. Not only from both granite golems. Moon was ahead basically all game long. Sok was really late with AM lvl2. Not sure if the harass to that extent paid off. ofc his expansion was safe doing so.

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

You know, if all people in the low rank like me play like this instead of yolo focus attacking your hero and a vast amount of turtling. Even if you win, you still have this bitter not so great win feeling

[@aykuncetinkaya6201]

cant believe he didn't click on the hero scores at the end.

[@pehodimitrov9836]

Grubby, will you play islands map sometime? 🗺️🗾

[@daydreamers8254]

moon was always so damn good... from what i remember when i played from release he was the highest paid player in wc3 history. from tournament wins + sponsorships. correct me if i'm wrong...

[@reznya2700]

Wasn't the orginal wc3 Showtime one of the best NE players? He invented all the AoW strats

[@Serfdomftw]

Cleave ignores armour of the cleaved units Chaos still gets reduced by armour amount.

[@ryxapenduwosk8111]

squirrels are my favorite unconventional pets

[@kaikkk4947]

Both red camps going to moon was harsh.

[@karlbutler3351]

Grubby funny.

[@shakohoto7901]

Wait moon is still playing? Dude's like 50 y/o right now lol

[@seangibbons-lawrie4261]

How is ne even supposed to heal mgs lol it takes 3 rejuv to get one back to nearly full??

[@Claddyman]

There was a period where Lawliet was clearly the best Elf vs Human

[@Pro_Max61]

NE > HU Moon could NEVER be on the Top with HU

[@lichley26]

Gaunten miant

[@lachezarvalentinov8751]

Moon is a King. Happy is THE EMPEROR.

[@lichley26]

Grub is a conquerer

[@juliuscesarsanjuan299]

​@@lichley26More like Ghazhull

[@yofdldlek]

Mountain giant sacrifice is like Queen Sacrifice in Chess wth this was new to me

[@karyoplasma]

Just play low elo chess, they "sacrifice" their queen every other turn.

[@yofdldlek]

@@karyoplasma i know. Its still the Symbol that the best unit is sacrifice for a hidden better thing.

[@morannonnorstund254]

Sok defeated Moon quite many times

[@LLachs283]

hi

[@Silenttoxin1]

I'm not much into the wc3 community, but based on what ive seen, even the top pros barely win against Happy, doesnt it make Happy the best player in the world?

[@ao1778]

Yes.

[@ilevitatecs2]

@@ao1778 moon has been the best player since he started playing, through many different patches. happy was hardly relevant at 1.28 and before

[@Lucas-uo9ml]

Ud broken

[@bryansweeney3077]

It depends if you're talking about the best player currently or the best player of all time. Happy is certainly a candidate for either title, but one thing Moon has over him is that he's been one of the best players in the world for an extremely long time, whereas Happy hasn't been as good for as long

[@ilevitatecs2]

moon is objectively the best player of all time. every pro except maybe happy agrees with it@@bryansweeney3077

[@StarStew]

yo wassap grub

[@michaelprice5049]

... sok... am I just suppose to "not"?

[@nemiw4429]

HU is just so easy to me. Rifle+casters+spellb. and ur basicly good for all scenarios.

[@kurzackd]

19:21 -- *"eschew"* is pronounced with a *"ch"* , *NOT* a "k" as you did. :P

[@nbaaba3187]

inffi best human,2 is sok

[@Lucas-uo9ml]

Moon best player in the world, happy only beat him because ud is broken af

[@lachezarvalentinov8751]

The fact that you keep repeating the same song every time doesn't mean it holds truth :)

[@ao1778]

Lmao. "He only beat him just because uhh uhh uhhhh uh.. just because he's a smelly poopoo head! 😭" That's what you sound like.

[@yofdldlek]

Only Noobs cry about Undead broken. Every body can handle them except for u lucas. Happys micro is the best in the world. This has nothing to do with undeads. Undeads never win tournamens in % compared to the others

[@gyorficserka]

Lot of animal related facts :)

[@kevin-7091]

It's been 4 years since the WGL and it seems like some of the Moon's fans are still under massive amount of copium

[@thelastmoonchaser]

why hum is such a weak race now? what did they do?