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  • Oh how the meta has changed, not walling against zerg close position is death these days for protoss, and macro hatch on the lower ground what? :P

    2 gate into forge expo before cyber lolololol.

    i know it's not their fault, but it's just funny.

  • lol at "excellent micro" his micro sucked really bad :P btw yes i know they only played the game a little at this point

  • @deathworm123 His micro was great, I've only ever seen this level of micro with wraiths and helions.

  • @WyvernZack are you tolling... my micro is way better

  • That blink micro was not creative at all. It is expected that you use blink micro to dance your stalkers around in battle like that, or you will get crushed!

  • @lazypanda19 well this was the alpha version and he only had a couple of hours to learn the game before that.

  • @lazypanda19 For holy playing the game a couple of hours using blink in any effective way is pretty impressive. This is the meta game of a game that was not even released yet, what did you expect? 

  • LOL. versatile stalker force?

  • Go my brothers! Destroy the infestation!

  • The commentator seems to love double adjectives. Terrible terrible damage, great great micro, poor poor spine crawler, brave brave battle.

  • After watching this, I now have a saying for stalkers:

    "I can teleport in your base and screw your SCVs in bed until they are dead.

    While your dumb marines are figuring this out,

    I've already teleported away, and will be back another day."

    While watching the Stalkers kill almost everything in two hits, I just hope that this game is not another Protoss-run circus.

  • "HITTING HIM TILL THE CANDY COMES OUT"

  • @MrRagnarocks this is such an early alpha, you can't tell by this game. They solved it pretty much in the beta and final game.

  • lo stalkers arnt op.just pump out some marauders and watch their limbs fly

  • alpha sucks

  • Stalkers are soo op...

  • Lol. Man i remember those damn mutalisk... If i remember right they had capacity, and they took forever to kill.

  • lol he comentators seemed to be more in the game thn the players themselves

  • RUN SPINE CRAWLER RUN!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Attack its weak point for terrible terrible damage.

  • Run! run you can make it!!! aww....

  • noobs

  • 5:12 NOOOOOOOOOO Poor peace of SHIT!.

  • Haha, every time he blinks "Oh wow!!!"

    Stalkers here seem very dragoon-like. Were Archons stronger back at this video? They act like they would make a big difference, when in current versions they're actually pretty weak...

  • They always act so amazed about blink.

  • Epic Micro!!!

  • Stalker is stronger in 2008 than in Beta ....

  • poor spine crawler :D

  • It's a scam, don't try it. No beta keys giveaway for SC 2

  • 5:10 Run! No! Run! You can make it

    NO! He didn't make it

    That made me laugh

  • shit sonkie shuld have build spore ages ago!!!

  • I want to see Boxer or Stork on SC2...

    A match like that will really sell the game.

  • whys yello playing tosss? he should play zerg

  • He did say that Yellow was good with using Blink, and it's a personal reference for what class you like most.

  • Definitely not a rush to get more bases. Of course being able to expand is great for additional resources, but not having a stable setup before expanding is often a high risk move. Multiple poorly defended bases is a very brittle defence. Especialy against a highly capable assaulting race like the protoss, its probably the worst move you could make.

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  • The main reason for the Zerg player's demise is that he didn't use the right unit to counter the Stalkers. Mass Roaches against mass Stalkers is a bad idea. The better choice would've been mass Hydras.

  • Zerg player is WC3 player and Toss player SC player... That may make SOME difference >_>

  • If the toss player could close himself in, waste resource on cannons, live with one less expansion, and still win the game. Something is overpowered. I don't see great micro with that blink, anyone could've done that. So yes, stalkers are overpowered.

  • He was able to be agressive at the beginning while he built up his defences and he also focused more on tech than rushing like the zergs did

  • I agree. Zerg focused on economy- that's what killed them. The Protoss' mass of uninterrupted drones and the fact that all minerals were spent towards offense won the game.

  • @StabbedUtility crap i liked zerg... this is unfair!!

  • You've clearly got no idea what your talking about or why zerg lost. The Z player lost too many drones during the first phase of P attack, losing 1 or 2 workers as zerg is already critical but he lost 6. Protoss kept the pressure with his 2nd phase of attack, so Z could not keep both his mineral lines fully saturated, not even close. At this point P's 1 base was probably mining more than his 2. What screwed from all chance of recovery was going Roaches instead of Hydras vs. mass stalkers.

  • maybe they are.

    but IMO the fact that how much you expand does not determine your chances of winning should make this game more interesting than previous SC.

    it's really tedious if at the opening of every battle you have to rush to grab more land/resources than your opponent.

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  • Lol "Terrible Terrible Damage" I think is the trademark of starcraft 2 commentaries.

  • Zerg Could Have Win, Only Needs The Right Player

  • stalkers seem to be abit overpowered because judging from the many videos that there's a protoss team, they often mass-produce stalkers which should suggest they're cheap in resource use and their blink ability just makes them way too mobile

  • They are idiots,just like you.All Koreans,"pro players" like fast stuff,zomg fast faster fastest!.You can see for yourself how all zvz matches are dominated by mutas and zerglings and how all matches on bnet are fastest and on fastest maps,but that doesent mean those are the best units or maps.

  • reguardless this vid is a year old, the game isn't even out yet; so if its truly overpowered then I'm sure blizz will change patch them up a bit.

  • the zerg player didnt do much. With all the time the toss had to make that army, zerg could have been building soooooo much more

  • I agree, he had 3 bases, what was he doing with all those resources he was bringing in? Just sitting on them?

  • it seems like the archon has the mass dmg ability, anyway zerg player sux..

  • TERRRRRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE

  • Poor jeb the Spine Crawler... Poor, Poor jeb...

  • how did the zerg player fuck this up? its like after he contained yellow he stopped making units alltotogether.

    or stalkers are just unbalanced.

  • Bad positioning. He let the stalkers get to a choke point where he couldnt get behind them. The cheap blinking tactics works against all the early zerg units as long as they are not surrounded.

  • Man those first SC2 archons looked like crap. The updated ones rock!

  • stalkers arn't imba at all... its a new game sonkie didn't kno the counter.

  • stalkers aren't imbalanced.. im pretty sure a lot of zerglings swarming around them would easily be able to take out the stalkers.

  • omg protoss is so imba

  • i want my lurkers and delifers!

  • Terrible terrible damage!

  • Great great micro! Great Great Battle! Terrible Terrible damage! sigh.. its getting seriously repeditive haha. anyway, the zerg player was bing a complete idiot. he lead all of his forces back to his hidden base with the entire army behind them.

  • Don't you mean seriously seriously repetitive?

  • play protoss on every game = guarantee win

  • Uh.... Battle report #1?

  • uh... forcefields werent there then

  • Because they aren't going to modify the game at all, ever again right?

  • Blink is just so powerful v zerg early game, really reduces the advantage the zerg have in speed and superior numbers.

  • They should make zerg better

  • protoss and terran are to op

    Zerg did like 3 matches`(the one i saw) And noone of that 3 times they won! (the battle reports and this one are the one i saw) Zerg must be made better!

  • why have all the zerg units i've seen suck?

  • stalkers are so badass! Almost makes me want to play pross instead of my terrans

  • atleast he took down the archon meat shields...

  • Run! Run! You can make it! No!

    LOL

  • 1:18

  • The Archons look sexy. :)

  • TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE!

  • Yarnac or NC Yellow or someone else?

  • RUN! RUN! YOU CAN MAKE IT!

    on a serious note... What SHOULD he have built vs stalkers? Zerg dont seem to have a counter.

  • I can tell you what he shouldn't have done - gone 12-hatch and ended up having his econ devastated by Two Gate Zealots :P

  • Actually, what he could have done is flank. Hide some Zerglings in the middle of the map and make the Stalkers blink into 30+ Lings. But he was probably far too behind to pull that off due to the Lots.

  • lol at the spine crawler

    "No!!! Run! You can make it!!!"

  • Cannot stand these casters. Learn to breathe.

  • but this ís starcraft 2 its alot closer to starcraft then to warcraft 3 u should play them and see the difference.

  • he really loves saying terrible terrible damage^^

  • TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE

  • wow fucking ggggggg!!!@!@!!@! after the first expansion died!!!! itts not fair though yellow is a sc player right? and sonkie isnt?

  • wait so now zerg units move faster on creep? ALSO KOREAN PRO MICROO!OO!!@!@! LOL

  • jee and i thought zealots were overpowered

  • is it only me or everybody that plays with the zerg gets hammerd??

  • The zerg player here is a wc3 pro playing against a starcraft pro. so not fair.

  • But remember, Starcraft 2 has new units and new strategies to fit these new units. Do you think that it's still unbalanced? Only a few units are still there, BUT they also do have new strategies and new abilities. And he just learned the blink ability, and learing quickly. It's more of a matter of learning quickly in this game.

  • NO NO NO

    the WHITE PLAYER always gets hammered

    koreans always win

    always

  • 3:36 "Keep beating him until the candy comes out"

    I fuc&ing lol'd

  • Terrible Terrible damage

  • i love how the units move but the Announcers annoy me sometimes they are speaking too fast mentioning the obvious (well the are good, thats the only thing i can rant about :P)

  • omg that suxx so hard....

  • Why is Yell0w playing toss?

    If this is the same Yell0w from SC, why isn't he playing Zerg?

    I want to see Jaedong playing this, see how his godly muta micro translates.

  • Doesn't look to overpowered to me.. And sonkie was a warcraft pro.. not starcraft... Either way he sucks as zerg.. with that many bases up he should have been able to easily flood the protoss.... not to mention he let the protoss turtle up .. which has never been a good idea.. Even in SC1

  • you are a noob hence you have no right of opinion.

  • and you're a mofo, hence you have no right to live, should just go die. what kind of attitude is that, jerk? how do u kno if i can't beat ur ass in iccup? how does saying blink is imba make me a noob? where's the connection? and what if I'm a higher rank than u? maybe C rank is too low for u? having that many bases obviously gives u resource advantage which can make u win. ok Sonkie sucks, but maybe I can beat ur ass so stfu

  • whats starcraft famous for again?

    oh yeah

    BECAUSE ALL THE RACES ARE BALANCED SO WELL

  • uhhh... yeah...except this is starcraft TWO???? and scbw was NOT ALWAYS SO BALANCED?? it had to go after MANY MANY UPDATES AND PATCHES MAYBE??? and scii is STILL IN DEVELOPMENT??? and units and abilities can be SCRATCHED as well as RENEWED???? dumbass....

  • lol buddy,

    I was talking bout sc1

    dumbass....

  • right... what for? I know just as well as you do that SCBW is reknowned to be the best competitive RTS in the world, partly because it is well-balanced. And so what's the point of bringing it up here? what does it prove? that SC2 is also imba? why, on, earth, did you even say that comment?

  • lol i have no idea what i even said and i dont really care soo

    yeah.

  • -_-...you... ugh

  • LOL ok buddy

  • and what comments come from a guy who hasnt played the game and start saying everything is imba. learn to write and to judge first, my impression of you is simple, you havent played the game and start making stupid senseless assumptions, i have no time to waste my time arguing with you , i know you are a noob, and you know it too so why fight?.

  • The fact that you say my judgement is baseless is flawed, my friend. Clearly in this video the stalkers were the winning factors for Protoss, using their blink ability. Yellow neither used corsair (scrapped in SC2 thats why) nor reaver drop (also scrapped) and still won an outnumbering zerg, it's like winning with a bunch of goons vs so many more hydralisks and lings, it just cannot happen in SC1...i'm refering to what this video showed. the only reason is stalker blink is imba.

  • do you remember when sc1 was only just about bio units(m&m vs toss)?, perhaps when vultures werent even used?, or now that valkyries are more used than ever before?. basing your judgement on one video of a game that hasnt even been released is way to rushed. also this has to do with playstyle, BO, so obviously the zerg was kind of sucking and to say a unit is imba you have to think constructively. atm stalkers seems quite good that doesnt mean they are imba or that they will be i mean who knows.

  • Of course theres going to be plenty of changes done to the units for ballance purposes. What worries me though is the super units. I really dont see what place the mothership / thor and whatever it is zerg gets has outside the singleplayer campaign. Imagine getting 5-6 BC's squashed in a black hole and lose thanks to it. F*ck that.

  • the majority of those abilities had been removed or nerfed down.

  • Didnt know that. Awesome. Thanks.

  • yeah this game is going to be super good they will fix that

  • lol the mothership skill black hole was removed cuz it was rly rigged lol PS.zergs don't suck they only suck cuz white has a rly nice plan lol

  • This game looks incredible. Announcers were really good too :), another A+ by blizzard.

  • Pro Starcraft gamer against pro Warcraft 3 gamer. Who do you think is going to win at Starcraft 2? Everyone should keep in mind, this video is from a very old build. A lot of things have changed.

  • lol spine crawler running for its life

  • Who's Sonkie?

  • Sonkie is a pro Wc3 player who probably hasnt played alot starcraft.

  • Isn't blink slightly OP'd?

  • maybe, but it isent relesed so they may be changed

  • Sonkie played this really badly as Zerg.

    You can't let the Protoss turtle as a Zerg because he'll eventually break out and destroy you. Like happened here...

    Needs a lot more early harassment from the Zerg.

  • judging from this video

    i think both races are fairly balanced its just that sonkie wasted alot of his units without damaging yellows units... in the second set especially he couldnt control his units( banelings and lurks)

  • ALL GONE QUEEN!

  • even in starcraft Broodwar, Yellow is pretty good with protoss... (although he's a zerg progamer)

  • But amazing Micro Yellow has

  • Stalker looks too cheap

  • what is that thing in 4:39. that slow moving tailed zerg

  • roach or something, or muta

  • Spine Crawler, its like a creep colony, when mobile it cant attack and has less hps

  • so then, if its like a creep colony, can it evolve to sunken colony or something similar to that?

  • it is the new sunken colony, it can uproot and walk around,

  • awesome!

  • stalker are too mobile it's immortal...

  • I assume you have never played sc before.

  • You a noob

  • Yea... that game is the difference between koreans and foreigners :D

  • Damn that was great macroing with those stalkers! I can tell he wont be the first to do that, but wow! Great game, I cant wait for SC2.

  • Micro not macro. Macro is like expanding and stuff and strategy on a bigscale, Micro is strategy at the individual unit lvl

  • This is much better than the recent battle report... Blizz has to hire more decent pro-testers.

  • Yeah this was a beautiful game to watch due to the impressive protoss micro. This is especially cool sicne Starcraft 2 seems to strongly encourage micro.

  • yellow pump out those stalkers so fast. He had a few zealots and cannons and secondes later has an army of 20+ stalkers... insane.

  • i like bewbs

  • Wow lol I've never played Starcraft but that looks fun.

  • lol man are you kidding the unit choise is important but the yellow player is obviusly better controlling the micro

  • I attribute it to the fact that sonkie is a wc3 player LOL

    progamers > wc3 players

  • The game is looking Awesome!!!

    fuckkk can't wait till it comes out!!

  • Think Blink looked good but really could be overpriced, and it just seems to be microing made ezy. but without the archons i think coulda turned out different.

  • People who are complaining about starcraft 2 (even before it's release) are totally immature. They're doing stupid immature presumptions about how the game is going to be like "imba; difficult micro; etc".

    If you liked Starcraft: Brood Wars, well guess what. The same people that made SC:BW made SC2 so stop with all your stupid presumptions.

  • I'm saying that the gameplay is still looking sweet as ever, the new abilities, just like in the classic Brood War, aren't overkill but can turn the tide of any match, and the new terrain and graphics are looking nice. However, I personally fucking hate how the archons and gateways look now. Lings moving faster on creep is awesome. The creep actually makes a difference and does more than allow spread now. Pretty sweet.

  • its bullshit how strong lings are now..

  • ever seen savior using lings?

  • wow yellow is awesome at controlling those blinks...again...WOW lol GG

  • Retain its crown? When did Warcraft hold any thing over Starcraft. Never. Stop judging the entire game by the tactics used in an early alpha match.

  • pfft. Yellow was able to scout Sonkie's main which was enough for an aggressive strategy seeing as how Sonkie went for a fast expand rather than a spawning pool first. Once the first expansion was totally overrun and the stalkers attacking the main, gg should have been called.

    Just because Yellow didn't scout most of the map doesn't mean other Starcraft players don't do it. Watch more Starcraft games to see its brilliance.

    Warcraft never had a crown over Starcraft...

  • warcraft is a joke compared to Starcraft, Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne is a joke compared to Starcraft, why do u think they had to make so many...cannot compete with the Brilliance and Balance of SC.

  • lurkers would clean up those stalkers this zerg is noob he made a spire which was useless

  • I wanna see a big army of stalkers like that get killed. I wanna see some counters for stalkers, cause right now it seems that blink ability is too much, BUT I really don't want to see the blink ability taken out of the game or overly slowed down, its too cool.

  • gonna nuke the mother fuckers than you will see them dead...

  • I think they'll probably severely limit their energy or something. So that you can only do it like 4 times a minite or something.

  • Where is the ENDING?

  • Wrong video, sry.

  • He's just gonna keep hitting him til the candy comes out.. lol

  • awesome!

  • Protoss is pretty cheap

  • lol "yes I killed half the stalkers!" then 20 more stalkers jump in.