by.hero vs WINNER Game 3 @ EVER09 OSL Group F (Part 2 of 2)

[frostydisco]

LOLOL!! "...I'm gonna dress up as that scarab for Halloween cause that was scary..." hilariousss

[HeLL12aiseR]

and another Corsair+Reaver, yay! and this time he actually did it right, using the Reaver on the offensive instead of the defensive! those nicely clumped up bunch of Drones was just a bonus :D

lets hope more Protoss players will return to Corsair+Reaver, this way they might end the Zerg's dominance as far as PvZ go and even the matchup once again...

[mistablah]

looks like hero's drones were bugged during mining route too :(

[hakonatli]

Entertaining game, thanks! :D

I have to go get a towel to clear all the saliva off my desk. I've been foaming at the mouth ever since that reaver shot...

[younglinkms]

i definately peed my pants with glee over that scarab :) well done movie. i might have just found a new favorite player

[MoonyD911]

gotta love reaver shots! its all pretty much a flip of a coin as for how much damage is dealt

[ColonelVolkov]

I just rewound and watched the psi count in the bottom right. That reaver took out exactly 10 drones.

[DrunkZergling]

lol revers are robot mining machines, they don't die. But that one deserves to be salvaged. A new chassis, fresh coat of paint and he's ready to murder more drones! As far as end game, wtb lurkers! Well played winner.

[WindxStrife]

more like new every thing for that reaver, it like blew up! =o

[stormscion]

They dont get painted they are plated with solid gold that is why they are so fragile :D

[Xaklyth]

1:35 moletrap came

[BarrellyRoll]

lol moletrap you sounded like you were about to have a seizure or something o.o

"ooohhhhh ! ohhhhhH! OHOHH ALL THE DRONES DIED OHHHHHH!"

[hungryhamsters]

oh, my god, all of the drone died in one single shot, such bad luck

[Arathorn1973]

SPOILER:

It's good to see some PvZ going to the protoss. Seems like all of them I've been watching lately have been zerg-dominated. Good stuff.

Thanks for commentating, moletrap.

[Abanndun]

Impressive game, and fun to watch

[KiwiiLime]

Movie sucha monster

[bsb42]

amazing game

[Draviskos]

Xaxa, not so much of a "hero" is he???

[Enjoy714]

lol@fatkid.

[Puckstop101]

TASSADAR!!!!!!!!!

[MOrningOrbit]

SPOILER:

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I don't know if anyone else noticed but after the drop at around 3:51, the loser's workers were stuck on the high ground behind the natural. 3 mins later at 6:40, the workers are still there. I think that made a huge difference since he already lost a lot of workers prior.

[1337Ideaman]

ya i noticed that too...looks like he forgot to mine out the min patch back there to avoid the drones pathing bugging out.

i hate playing heartbreakridge for that.

[empirerakeback]

gotta love movie's play here. you guys remember when movie stunned the world by goon rushing jaedong? This kid is not going anywhere, folks. I hope to see him show some prowess against T.

[Valentin0o]

THE DROOOOOOOONESSS!!!

[cheapdates]

8 drones. wow

[userasdf]

good job movie. gonna keep an eye out for him

[SovietSR71]

THAT REAVER = WARBRINGER

[Yuicy]

Wow, amazing play. That surprised me, but in a good away. I hope all the best for the winner. Oh and Moletrap, be careful of where you roll with that scarab costume of yours, you might catch some drones on their way back.

[pherzu]

That was an awesome game by Movie. That was also the single most epic scarab shot I've ever seen in my 10 years of watching and playing SC. I did, very nearly, wet my pants with glee. What a difference .25 seconds makes. If that scarab doesn't launch just in time, it's a completely different game.

The storm drops were also brilliant. I liked how he sent the shuttle along the bottom of the map while simultaneously showing his sairs elsewhere to lull Hero into a false sense of security.

[MattandSteveSC]

damn i agree, movie did look like bisu there. his macro play was fantastic, with awesome harassment. i watched that scarab like 5 times. i think that's the most kills i've even seen off one scarab!!! my balls hurt a little when that happened.

- matt

[thesparkiscool]

fair enough........

don't really care bout ur balls though..

sorry

[Devourer09]

Moletrap, tell Diggity... VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE VIDEO RESPONSE

[coolstream1]

whenever I watch starcraft matches I want to play starcraft so bad... and then I do... and then I remember how terrible I am at it :P

[dayravager]

tru dat coolstream1 XD

[TheSTAceM]

You took the words out of my mouth.

[Smudge4C]

Absolutely exciting match to watch.

Great commentary, Moletrap.

Looking forward to seeing what Movie has for us in the future.

[lordhenry4000]

WOW intense game. GG.

[PannaIka]

Wow that scarab was SO freaking hot and I love zerg, props to movie for having a clutch scarab

[JohnnyChimpo577]

"i'm gonna dress up as that scarab for halloween cause that was SCARY"

hahahahahahhaha wtf i love you moletrap

[strategyandgames]

awesome. this is one of the greatest games i've seen.

[scarredone478]

Clutch Reaver play protoss for the win! The scarab is cool, but i'll go as the reaver for halloween lol

[milesforwin]

Fucking kickass play from Movie. It's great to see an aggressive toss pull through.

[complangc]

overpoweredness of reavers

[Tillysouth]

Finally a protoss winning. That scarab kill was lucky on Movies part and stupid on Byheros part. Movie saw the massive damage and sticked 2 base and wanted to finish the game. He kept pressureing and forced a big battle where his single reaver again made a big difference. If hero had hold that one of it would have been gg for Hero cuz it was 3 base vs 2 (mined out).

Nice close match.

[94Karlsek]

im gonna dress as a scarab :D

[dk9999]

0:29 ! 63 supply down to 53 supply! 10 drones down

[padraig314]

I'm absolutely delighted by this result. Haven't seen toss beat a zerg in so long

[ycfeatbn]

almost a mole-gasm at 0:30-0:32 :)

[SacreDro]

lol he was sweating like he ran a marathon.

[IoveClaire]

He lost like 11-12 drones :p

[ReganHuang]

Does anyone know why Klazart quit? :(..

[FoxLisk]

this was an exciting game anyway, but it was moltetrap's nearly orgasmic response to the ridiculous scarabs that made it for me.

[jamchew1982]

maaaan best single scarab i've seen probably ever...

[megadethqc]

Movie PvHBR is really good!

[linux121190]

According to the food count it was ten drone kills by that scarab.  (went from 63 to 53)

[moletrap]

Ah, good eye, thanks! I think I'll ad an annotation...

[Giga8yte]

EPIC game! Movie's play was really impressive.

[Arphyn]

lol, 0:26-0:32 moletrap had an orgasm

[loksea06]

scarab damage decrease depending of the time they are in the air or the distance the move?

[asfesesease]

no, but after a certain time they fail to explode, aka dud

[loksea06]

yes but sometimes they just make 30-40 damage

[twinesper]

This is what I like. I hate how most Protoss now and day just get a stargate and only 1 or two corsair out of habit and do no more that kill an overload or two. That's a huge huge waste or resources and time, just skip the flipin stargate if you're not going to use it.

Movie here on the other hand did actually use it. He got many sairs to cover his reaver raped but knew when to stop making them so he could focus on ground army to cover his reavers.

Good shit Movie, keep it up =)

[Dashmast3r]

The way the PvZ metagame works, you're pretty much forced into getting the sair unless you keep your probe alive even longer than Bisu does. The primary purpose of the corsair is not to kill overlords but to scout. Otherwise, the Zerg can deny every probe scout and go for an easy 3 hatch hydra bust, or go muta, or get 5 bases, and the Protoss can't respond correctly.

[twinesper]

Nope.

They do it because it has become the norm to do so. Everyone just copys everyone else. They just use the build they see being used the most and practice that a shit ton without coming up with new stratageies of thier own. Sure getting the sairs when Bisu first sstarted doing it was a great idea, but by the time Last year or so that July came out with the 3 hatch spire build that pretty much canceled the sair build it became mostly pointless and more of a waste.

[UpTballA]

Jaedong? 3 hatch spire into 5 hatch hydra, didnt he make that?

[wasdwasdedsf]

no.

they do it cause its optimal. You are clueless and sit there and guess, thinking you have some topsecret information that the progamers havent thought about.

[twinesper]

Sure having it as another build is a good idea, maybe even 50% of your games, but doing it 99% of the time so the zerg can always cancel it is just a terrible idea. Going other builds makes it so the zerg doesn't know what build you're going and auto thinks you're going for the standard sair build and thus goes for their standard counter of 3 hatch spire. In this case the zerg is now the one doing a set build with the protoss is now free to counter, and the counter is not the 1 sair build.

[twinesper]

Going say citadel than temp archives to more gates after your FE will allow you to be the person to do the break. As it is Zerg barely holds off the speedlot rush that comes after the sairs are out when they 3 hatch spire build. Z won't get a good scout on you till their muta or scourge pop and than they're the ones that have to adapt to your build.

As far as 3 hatch hydra bust you have must faster templar this way and faster speed zealots due to not wasting in stargate and sair.

[twinesper]

If they go muta, again you have templar even more quickly so your archon will be out before their mutas and when your second archon pops to stay at your base you're free to move out with your speedlot army with the first archon and they have no good defense for it since they went muta.

If they went 5 base or 5 hatch the standard response is to get enough army to move out and take map control than expo yourself if you can't directly kill them, and this is accomplised even faster by not wasting.

[twinesper]

Translation for those that don't actually understand starcraft. Just becasue most people do it doesn't mean it is the best or only way to play the game. You can adapt and change your strategy and you should. The metagame evolves the only thing that stops it from doing so are people like you who get stuck in a mindset without actually exploring better options. Yes sairs can be good ie with sairreaver or even just to throw them off, but it's never a good idea to do the same build 99% of the time.

[wasdwasdedsf]

You dont understand sc.

The progamers understand sc

[Dashmast3r]

You're misunderstanding the matchup. You're not giving Korean protosses and coaches nearly enough credit. Do you think that if the corsair wasn't necessary, they would continue to build it? Of course not. It is absolutely necessary to get the scout, which probes and ground troops simply can't get. Additionally, the sair(s) can kill overlords and deter mutalisks. The Koreans know their Starcraft. It's true that many progamers are copycats, but the stuff they copy is what's good.

[nicmanity]

00:30 OMG LOLOLO

[scrixie]

was 10 drones, you can see using the unit counter on lower right...insane

[holyender515]

SPARTAAAAAAA

[blaznsnow]

I thought hero was going to throw up LOL

[kickit246]

Wow, that was like a dozen drones, the reaver goes down first but at 0:26 you can sortta see all the drones before they die lol

[OnmyRedEye]

fucking beautiful play!

[Ecrilon]

Movie Scarab: Opposite of Much Scarab?

The Movie Scarab: Able to not dud in such a way that it hits but does not kill a Zergling. Able to kill a control group of drones even as its Reaver dies. Able to worm into a group of hydras and explode to kill half a control group after four seconds of twitching. Able to make Moletrap really hurt my ear. Like Ow.

Interesting fact: The cost of 1 reaver and 6 scarabs is approximately the same resource cost as 4 Hydras.

No Hero? Too bad that Bisu's out, haha

[Finlandzki]

@Ecrilon:

I was going to write something similar after watching this game... Movie had the best scarab shots I have seen so far. I hope he does not run out of luck. ;)

[smweyman]

They almost seemed too good to be luck. I wonder if he's figured a technique out to make the chance of a dud to be less.

[Snuffleupa]

YEAHHH MOVIE

[naturalkinds]

Oh

my

lord.

That was a great game -- one of the best I've seen in a few weeks. Please keep covering both of these players when you have the chance. This is just fantastic SC (and commentating, obvs.).

[ChAoS9779]

Hmm, a scarab costume doesn't seem like a bad idea :o

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