This Zerg CRAVES The Smell Of ROASTED ZERGLINGS! | Is It IMBA Or Do I Suck?

[@JacekAdamczyk]

Jokes aside, Harstem coming up with all of these "This is like having..." parallels on the fly and them being [most of the time] accurate and [always] funny is absolutely amazing, this is some serious comedic talent. Respect!

[@karlmarxstolemybike3382]

1000% Agreed! I laughed my ass off with every one of them. :D

[@goodforyou9166]

This Time the Topic was „house“

[@BjerkeRobin]

He certainly has the gift of the analogy 👌👍

[@junewalker9341]

Especially when he lets the analogy get away from him, and it just makes less sense the more he says!

[@mito._]

The funny thing is, in the security guard example, your guard shows up to defend with a knife against a guy with a flame thrower.

[@atticus2581]

No, his pet iguana.

[@ingrudmessenger1193]

A flame thrower sounds a bit imba, though. I'd rather say... with a car. He wants to drive a car into Harstems house and the guard tries to fight the car with a knife.

[@Syy]

14:14 Harstem with the Big "Dad proud that their 10 year old scored a goal at the after-school soccer game" energy.

[@imcuddlybunny]

this literally made me laugh out loud when i checked the timestamp

[@Bantam80]

"You're slow, un-athletic and I'm not sure that your eyes work properly." And I took that personally.

[@atticus2581]

"so I started blasting, right"

[@Maxmilian666]

Terran is like: let's play mech. And Zergs response is to build every unit that is countered by mech. Let's go complain :D

[@apoth90]

To be diplomatic, in my days I had huge problems with the "Speed Mech" army that the terran showed for most of the game, consisting of hellions and cyclones. You need to use roaches and properly placed fungals to combat that. I suppose a Zerg that sticks to zerglings from opener to endgame is not capable of doing such micro.

[@henningbreede6428]

Ling/bane/ravager would have worked well this game, so it's not that lings and banes are bad, it's that ling/bane only especially without surrounds is really bad.

[@knurpsel6992]

I laughed so hard about the Ferrero Rocher, because that's exactly what I do. Just give them to people you don't really know as a present.

[@sharpasacueball]

I think it's pretty universal, kind of like those danish cookie tin containers used for holding sewing materials

[@gautam-narula]

I have lived the exact scenario he describes: age 20-22, gift Ferrero Rocher to someone I didn’t know super well because it looks fancy, tastes good, and is relatively inexpensive. Harstem nailed that exact slice of life

[@pauldorasil5114]

As soon as I read "slightly unfavorably," I knew this was going to be a fun game to watch. I love that you focused on that.

[@chloesmith4065]

14ings for 35 damage. Just amazing

[@andrebrodbeck384]

Even if the terran would have switched to bc's only that zerg would probably continued building lings.......

[@jagk-du3yw]

I was expecting BCs since I saw the fusion core there

[@whateverppl1229]

*loses 2k worth of lings vs the terrans 500 mins lost* "so I had a slightly unfavorable trade"

[@electricitybomb]

I like how the opponent casually floats 10k resources

[@PlaceBotox]

It's not like the opponent even needed to spend his resources, just buy hellions and win the game.

[@Jo08743]

its the metal league terran disease: once you get to 5 rax or 5 factories, there will not be additional production facilities! it doesnt matter if you're on 5+ bases with 90 scvs and the occasional mule, the only thing that will be built is even more CCs. the remaining resources are stuck in production queues or go straight to the bank

[@masterofattack2574]

man if i was the terran guy i would actually make an IODIS complain form!! "my enemy kept making lings into hellions, and didnt stop till the end of the game, he instantly made 25 mutalisks and almost killed me, and even tho he made only lings the whole game, it was really really close!!"

[@walrus1457]

It’s the inherent weakness of mech, if you don’t plan or prepare for sudden tech switches you do just die.

[@Janx14]

Yeah its weird he complains about how simple mech is, yet his own army consists almost entirely of units he just throws at the enemy the whole game.

[@victornunes900]

You can tell this zerg is used to just F2+A-moving his entire army and rolling over bio in TvZ.

[@noobzerg1990]

yes because he’s plat. What’s your point?

[@SOSolacex]

@@noobzerg1990 we found salty black nova in the comments

[@ledrash6079]

But all terrans say it is just for zerg to A-move to win?

[@apoth90]

As an old mutalisk friend kiting, it pains me to see somebody attacking into a base with 20 Mutalisks that have on average maybe 5 hp left. Mutalisks regenerate hitpoints outside of combat extremely fast and can be used extremely cost efficiently.

[@Ostsol]

Honestly, seeing play like this makes me wonder how far I could get, as bad as I am.

[@bsmartr806]

I think if you just knew to spend your resources You would easily make Platinum. Terran was floating 16K resources or more the entire game, it was painful to watch.

[@Sirkento]

Yeah honestly just max out whole Army hotkey against this kind of stuff LOL

[@MattOfSmith]

All this talk about floating gave me a good idea for a new challenge video for you. For every minute the game has gone on, you have to float an extra 100 minerals.

[@OmegaKillswitch303]

27:44 honestly i would be doing the same thing ... if your opponent has so little idea about countering your units you can do whatever lol

[@Jordan-Ramses]

Sure, but the Terran wasn't reacting either. Those are the units he always builds. He was just lucky.

[@nnm711]

Zerg tears for once, what a breath of fresh air. The level of delusion is also through the roof. Blinding clouds were thrown the wrong way.

[@dieterdietert7232]

Yep. Delusional. Thats word iwas searching for. :D

[@jagk-du3yw]

Don't even need blinding cloud. If he had gone mass roaches instead of mass lings, he would have won. Roaches basically don't care about hellion fire and they can push away the cyclones, plus they actually deal decent damage against Thors. Only real thing that would have countered them here would be tanks and mines, really. Source: Diamond Zerg, I beat mech with roach ravager just yesterday.

[@nfzeta128]

@@jagk-du3yw yea reach ravager deals with everything the Terran was building. The thors are slow and creep spread was good so would be easy.

[@clarkecorvo2692]

i mean.. it was an obvious troll game

[@CPeyser08]

“You’re staying in… Is your time not valuable?!” 😂 😆 😂

[@ascetahedonista7161]

Complains about mech being a F2 composition, but it is him the one who can not stop pressing that button.

[@meandmyself1600]

Feels more like an "I'm jealous of your A move potential" than an actual imbalance complaint

[@unixtreme]

Is there any other button? What are control groups?

[@jagk-du3yw]

In his defense, I can confirm that the F2 + A-move is very tempting as a Zerg. Took me a while to get used to control groups

[@ascetahedonista7161]

@@jagk-du3yw Welp. I think play starcraft 1 and warcraft 3 (even if its the campain only) helps you to develop the habit to use control groups.

[@BlinkReanimated]

@@unixtreme Tbf he seemed to have his hatches on a control group and had his s+z hotkeys on point.

[@Jabawalk]

BlackNova: Reynor won a game! With lots of Lings! Harstem: but you are not Reynor

[@brainy1200]

Some of these replays make me think "okay this one was so bad there's no way someone could send a worse one" but nah nvm it gets much much worse every time.

[@dieterdietert7232]

Rocher is french and means rock. Its because they ought to look like little golden rocks. The other things Harstem said were true about them. fancy giveaway for people u dont really know. :D

[@st4rk1113r]

What r u, a french nerd?

[@dieterdietert7232]

@@st4rk1113r german nerd :D

[@Silversiren28]

Looking at the terran's bank, I kept expecting sudden mass battlecruisers or something. XD

[@ladislavdobrovsky8826]

that guy is like Zagara before enhancement, sending wave after wave; never ending zerling stream for the glory of the swarm

[@Supergoon1989]

0:19 "Hellions..Which I trade with 'slightly unfavourably' with lings... " - I'm guessing his personal Bias + the title you chose to use will probably show that comment to be the understatement of the century, but let's just see....

[@Supergoon1989]

3:37 - Hell yeah!

[@DvsLucas1088]

"Hydras.. why.. well definitely a comp LowKo would approve" Proceeds to laugh at own joke.

[@nR00R]

How can you not with a high quality funny like that?

[@GeneGear]

I just find it amazeballs Harstem is still holding Lowko to his imba submission

[@justsomebaneling951]

@@GeneGear "amazeballs"? Are you seven?

[@miahmagick]

@@justsomebaneling951 Nah. He's just amazeballs.

[@DarkChasm]

I love @18:20 The base to the top has only anti-air static towers and to the right are hellions. He comes in with muta/ling and split the mutas into the anti-air and the lings into the hellions... This guy WANTS to loose I think.

[@ebbethinggaard]

Ferrero Rocher are great, and to think the guy also invented Nutella, now that is insanity!

[@raevar9779]

My heart is bleeding because of the genocide commited by the zerg :(

[@hakobian2162]

@harstem 1:50 Haha, I did that for a "secret santa" gift once before. I did $30 worth of kit kats, nestle crunch, and other bags of chocolates. While I would have loved it...after seeing the disappointment on their face upon opening it, I haven't done it again. Maybe this year I'll do those rocher balls, turtles, and milano cookies.

[@omarabzax1809]

The Lowko roast just made me laugh out like a maniac that my family got worried about me

[@shadowling77777]

We’re all very worried about you Omar

[@martinsramek8643]

I feel like hamster is not getting the recognition he deserves for the awesome comments and information boxes

[@Arkain89]

the zergling counter is making kerringan really really mad somewhere out there

[@franky1882]

good friend has his birthday in a week, I think I know what to buy him for a gift now. Thx for the coaching session Captain, I learned smth yet again

[@alexanderwilliams9519]

Fun Fact: The Einstein quote was referring to quantum superposition, which he didn't believe in, meaning that quote is one of the best examples of when Einstein was wrong

[@mito._]

The beauty of science is being able to be wrong and improve yourself because of it.

[@MrTubeStuck]

Ill defend ol Einstein :p If I remember right, he called it spooky science because he could not find a way to prove quantum mechanics. I guess white Don King wanted people to properly prove it

[@dusan-renat]

Fun Fact: Einstein never said that. It's been attributed to him by the internet memes.

[@chadgiga4213]

@@mito._ The real beauty of science is that einstein did not believe the uncertainty principle and tried all his life to disprove it but he was suh a good scientist that he came up with more ways to confirm the theory"s validity because well it was the nature of reality whether he liked it or not

[@Lorexbg]

Fun Fact: This is shitpost that become "fact" , the phrase was popularized by Far Cry 3 where the writer said he came up with it by himself , tho some ppl found it in some 80s books , there is chance it resurfaced while he was thinking about the Vass monologue , thats the character that made it popular . After Far Cry 3 become very popular boards and forums became flooded with ppl asking "from where is it" after time ppl started to get fed with it, so shitpost answers started to pop up, stuff like Abraham Lincoln ,Washington or Einstein . in 2015 for first time saw this picture on 9Gag . if id made its way there then someone post it around all the "funny" sites for keks. Now to correct you , the phrase Einstein used for your particular example was "god does not play dice with the universe" .

[@marcoatzori92]

I just realized the "according to sec. 42, paragraph 69..." every time I find something in these forms that I did not notice before, and it is always beautiful...

[@nabusvco]

This man at the end of the match could had made enough infestors to chain fungal the thors to death and/or neural them too.

[@sako2239]

He lost like 12.5k minerals worth of lings. He could have used those 12.5k minerals to make 26 Brood lord or 46 ultras worth of minerals (I know he needs gas but he was literally floating 5k gas at one point.)

[@_unknown_guy]

1:45 the life lessons are exceptional here

[@MannyKunV]

i always thought if something was truly imbalanced, every professional would play as that very thing. in this case, IF terrain mech was imbalance and an easy "i win" thing to do, every professional player would suddenly be terrain and always go terrain mech. theyre playing to win, do the thing that will guarantee the highest success rate to win. thats at least some what of the mind set i have with that subject

[@SapphirosCZ]

Id like to see into zergs mind. If his opponent built Battlecruisers, how many zerglings would he build to counter them?

[@nef36]

I'm working to bet this guy decided "let's just never make anything other than lings vs Terran, then I'll submit an IIODIS to Harstem. It'll be hilarious"

[@AndystanSmith]

The video quality and your commentator quality has increased a ton over the past year! Thanks for making videos!

[@niiksaak]

Isn't this an attempt on that Serral's build order from last year? With 4 queens and shitton of lings in the early game. I think it's that. Would explain a lot of what happened.

[@boskly8368]

Harstem is just incredible at roasting people with metaphors

[@danielbrunk9121]

2:00 thx got something 4 christmas now haha Like that you show the build orders and things :D

[@TheDirtyone84]

Your Anologies Kill me every Time xD

[@stevesmith7839]

Don't bring a ling to a roach fight.

[@JamesBeignet]

I love watching your replays, even the old ones that may be a little less relevant. The way BlackNova plays acrually reminds me of how I played after watching vibeLOL s B2GM. I was so hooked on doing a good macro (and I pretty much did, with drones injects creep ...)that I actually forgot the concept of unit comp. Except my default comp would be roach more than lings ... anyway.. never got further than gold lol

[@demetermarcus9099]

HOLYYYY!!! The thumbnail is absolute fire today , thumbs up.

[@FinetalPies]

In addition to roasting zerglings and making fancy individually wrapped chocolates, Ferrero also makes Nutella (there is Nutella in Ferrero Rochers)

[@pixel7020]

Watching all the little zergling bodies flying directly upwards after dying is unironically really funny, why was that happening?

[@localman7017]

Imagine losing to a Terran that is consistently floating 12-16k for most of the game because you just keep inting lings into his hellions for 20 minutes.

[@Ghi102]

Harstem is critiquing the Zerg, but I'm just flattened by how bad the Terran is floating

[@chili209]

@@Ghi102 I mean, he did have to. Optimal investment for this opponent.

[@chloesmith4065]

"floating 12k? 8 more hellion, I don't need more factories

[@johnmorrell3187]

Honestly you could judge this whole game by the line "my opponent build hellions and cyclones so I countered with ling bane muta". Like, my first thought if the enemy is massing hellions is NOT to build ling bane lol.

[@chloesmith4065]

The worse part is that zerg has the easiest tech switches. Build one structure, make 40 infestors. Actually he already had the infestation pit for the hive upgrades.

[@BlackCollar]

This guy's decision making didn't suck, it was virtually nonexistent, lol. He essentially made one decision in the entire game and never changed his mind: make and send (not A-move, mind you) Ling/Bane/Muta. That's it. That's all.

[@andreashofmann4556]

Imagine complaining that your army was useless against Thors, then rebuilding the same army 5 more times.

[@JacksonSeiter]

Anyone else absolutely love Harstem's random apologies?

[@Ikkalyzte]

He's not wrong about the Ferrero Rocher though. I don't know anyone (including myself) who'd be disappointed to receive them. Wait a minute, Liquid should hook him up with a sponsorship.

[@Kevin-jv7mz]

My parents always gave me Ferrero Rocher...=\

[@Kevin-jv7mz]

@Camembert It's okay. I'll give them Ferrero Rocher when they have no more teeth.

[@sleep3417]

@@Kevin-jv7mz Holy shit

[@iamkaarp]

I like how sassy Harstem is to both of the players :)

[@dustincintron1682]

"Focusing on creep seems a little bit... perverse" Lmao

[@danielskrivan6921]

10:50 "Stab" is the word you're looking for.

[@damedley75]

2:55 absolutely love the info boxes! But I have to quibble with "0 advantages." Queens require a pool and are incredibly versatile.

[@gehirndoper]

Wouldn't you get two queens quicker though if you don't go pool first?

[@damedley75]

@@gehirndoper I don't know the answer to that off-hand, but Queens can defend, inject, and spread creep. I'm not saying go 12 pool queen with no lings, but it's far from 0 benefit.

[@damedley75]

@@gehirndoper I don't know the answer to that off-hand, but Queens can defend, inject, and spread creep. I'm not saying go 12 pool queen with no lings, but it's far from 0 benefit.

[@truiteteam3428]

2:25 actually a month after you say that Ferrero had to cancel all productions because if of bacterias inside the chocolate cuves, at least 80 persons were pretty sick and a few of them went to hospital. It took over 2 months to secure the site and fix the problem. I also have reports from workers saying it it a really bad managment, it's a rich product but the work is awefull. They work 24h a day and in full rotation, meaning every week they have a jetlag of 8 hours working in hot areas with big noises. Actually a nightmare job. Most of workers give up after a few months and they tend to recrute young people that can't stay for a long time (like mac donalds). The nutritional value of the products is also very low and unheathly (palm oil from countries that don't pay their workers fine) and killing the local forest.

[@LawlFrank]

"burnt cardboard" hahaha "just eat the potatoe!" xD

[@bsmartr806]

You need to fire whoever did the math at 13:04.

[@jacobsvensson8193]

When I don't know somebody very well I also just give them a bag of these balls

[@danielskrivan6921]

7:20 I'd be willing to bet there are a few people out there who could beat me in Ling vs. Hellion.

[@liampree]

Best series on KZbin

[@XZSteel]

Damn, Harstem, such a good content. Keep going, man!

[@Amoeby]

I guess, he received an order from the Swarm Queen to keep building lings. That's why he kept building them.

[@jonnyboy6453]

23:50 all those not yet banes dead. All those Thors were chasing a few mutas and he. he. he let them all die before Bane-uberty

[@T3RR4212]

Analogies on point Captain. Top tier content.

[@robertyang4365]

The Ferrero Rocher thing is actually solid, I might use that advice someday.

[@AlmostJordan]

Bro those chocolates are my favorite and I ask my family to buy them for me for Christmas because I had to stop buying them because It was becoming unhealthy

[@PhillStone]

Nice work Hamster. Nice work Harstem!

[@chloesmith4065]

18:30 zerg goes from 85 army supply down to 30, ouch....

[@Mekose]

Can you explain a little how you had a live feed of the ling death count in the edit? I assumed you did a recording with the "units lost" tab open; but how did you sync that with the video? (unless you never speed up the playback during the replay, which I thought you did.)

[@jessemoore1384]

Player: lings should counter hellions... Harstem: let me come up with some potato metaphors...

[@ThomasSkjlberg]

I don't even play this game, come here for the comedy.

[@Sirkento]

Those are my favorite candy ever LOL Although Kit Kats are a very close second

[@MrTubeStuck]

Ling/Bane/Muta is Probably one of the worst army comps to pull off if the control is mediocre. I admire the confidence of doing it, but he has a looooong ways to go using the comp. Im thinking our Zerg has been watching a lot of old school scarlett

[@noobzerg1990]

every nooby zerg player plays ling bane muta. I remember doing it. Because it seems easy to play and they never truly realize how bad/hard the comp is for low level

[@damienpoblete]

13:08 how is that -649 resources for zerg with a 1.5K mineral difference and a 375 gas difference?

[@danielskrivan6921]

The thing is that I don't know a single person who likes Ferrero Rochet. So we end up with a single box being re-gifted half a dozen times, before someone finally begrudgingly eats it or just throws it away.

[@peterthepeter7523]

Obviously Black Nova thought that lings were the way to deal with thors. The help in the menu does say that lings counter them.

[@cosmonie2819]

13:02 there's an error with trade info. It should be -1975 resources for the zerg

[@Sirkento]

I know very little about matchups but I will now always remember that roaches are good against hellions🤣

[@RomanShigapov]

I managed to make it into gold league from bronze with 68% winrate this season, after not playing in SC2 like from 2012, it’s all because useful tips and comments from Harstem. I’m lacking even decent controls, forget to macro properly, but just trying to do a right thing. This Nova is trying to fight fire with paper, how he could be a platinum player? 12pooling?

[@sleep3417]

He even messed up the 12 pool. Trust me, every zerg in plat knows how to 12 pool.

[@creatorsupreme2490]

This zerg player is the definition of, "He can't get out of his own way." Even when he had the advantage, he never capitalized. He played it like he was allergic to tech.

[@ozthebeeman]

I feel like in plat its OK to go pool first so you don't die to any stupid stuff

[@IAmBael]

This game in a nutshell: 0-15 min: "I'm just gonna spam zerglings and win!" 15-20 min: "FINE! I'll make some mutas!" And then wondering why zergling and mutas aren't cutting it anymore against 10 Thors and 8k minerals, 8k gas in the Terran bank. 🤔

[@jadgamester1975]

i dont know about you but when he tryed to say ferrer i hered fat-air one word

[@snookiesmith7549]

The type of comp lowko would approve.. jesus i laughed so hard

[@coakleyb001]

“Some things in life can’t be taught” ouch

[@danielskrivan6921]

3:15 Please tell me there's a documentary narrated by Kevin de Koning in the future.

[@gronnelg]

"Burnt cardboard" Omg :D

[@StayHydratedGaming]

From 12:37 to 14:24 the Terran doesn’t create a single unit

[@NeonGarlic]

14 yo me coming home from school. Dad: So, how was your day? Me: Slightly unfavourable. "aka. Got into a fight, suspended from school with both eyes punched black"

[@Chizzoide]

I think he really likes Zerglings conceptually. IDK is just a hunch.

[@kirilkirilov6241]

Poor BLACKNOVA, man, getting roasted both by Ferrer and Harstem.