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  • This guys are insane, I can't believe it. Very nice series! I haven't seen this type of play since... back when Savior was at the top on Broodwar xD

  • @bmwbwa I KNOW!! SO UNFAIR RIGHT?! THEY SHOULD TOTALLY NERF MULES SO THAT ZERG PLAYERS CAN GET INSTA ROACHES AND LINGS WITH LARVA INJECT AND KILL TERRAN'S ECONOMY!!

  • no fund no reserves nothing?? TERRAN GOT MULE!

  • You need to know more about sc2

  • "and MMA with an incredible hold!" ... for terrans, I guess dropping 2 supply depots = an incredible hold.

  • I wonder if anyone else noticed that if ONE tank had come out instead of that helion, that attack would have been COMPLETELY deflected. ONE tank...

  • Not many Zerg players can beat MMA. He has an obscene 80% win rate against Zerg. Well PLayed.

  • Seriously, I love how the fucking terrans all cry that they are not OP, and then spout some bullshit that's COMPLETELY incorrect. How can you say your race is not imbalanced if you don't even fucking know what your own units' properties are?

  • When I hear terran player saying that mutas are OP I know that I've just encountered an idiot.

  • If MMA was a zerg player, he'd be a low master, while if Stephano was a terran player, he'd be a top 5 GM. Really man, looking at the last 20 pro ZvT in HD's channel can you REALLY not see how OP terran is to zerg?????

  • @ctsincebay So you think that terran is OP now?? Wait for shredders in HotS!

  • @ctsincebay Yes because spamming S-DDDDDDDD requires sooooooo much skill doesn't it? Stephano has some of the worst decisions in the game yet he still won because all he needs to do is spam drones and make an army

  • @mavengence What the fuck are you talking about? HAHA let me tell you, FIRST OFF, you CAN'T do that, because fucking every drone you make is one less fighting unit, unlike terran and protoss that can make harvesters and units at the same time.

  • @ctsincebay you got larva dude. if you manage to survive the abuse that the terran might put on you in the early game then you've pretty much won the game. Especially when Mutas come into play, they allow for such easy map control with very little skill required. You can basically drone up and take expansions all over the map while the terran has to spend the entire mid to lategame just chasing away mutas. And if you see him pushing out? Bam, 200/200 army in like a second.

  • @ctsincebay oh and dont even get me started on Zerg micro. It's practically non-existant, Terran has to micro his ass off while also keeping up with his macro. What does Zerg need to do? Herp derp a move banelings and rofl stomp terran army.

    Zerg macro only consists of larva inject btw. If you manage to get most of your injects right then you have pretty much won the game

  • @ctsincebay Also, MMA is a fucking GSL champion. Who the hell is Stephano?

  • @mavengence Stephano is the best player in the world. Also, if you actually WATCHED GSL, you would see that he didn't really deserve to win. This game should have been INFINITELY easier for the zerg to win, after a HUGELY successful early attack. I guaran-fucking-tee you that if the terran had done that to a protoss or zerg, the game would be over. That's why 4 helions fucking end the game so often. Once you lose 5-10 drones, you're pretty much DONE for.

  • @ctsincebay You're joking right? Stephano isn't even the best Zerg in the world. That crown belongs to either Nestea or Dongraegu.

  • @mavengence ALSO did you notice that it fucking took a 200/200 zerg army to beat his tiny 140 terran army? OH WAIT, ACTUALLY, he DIDN'T kill the entire army, but was lucky enough to get past them into the main. Not to mention the army was even out in the fucking middle of nowhere. Put a couple of buildings around and it might have been different. Oh yeah, and check top comment 40/14 harvesters SAME FUCKING INCOME. Means terrans can make a 250 army & same income. T gets all the love

  • @ctsincebay You realize Zerg armies are dirt cheap right? That Terran army might be smaller in supply but it is much more expensive. And about the mule thing, the larva mechanic is just as bad. Lose 20 drones? Bam, 20 more drones produced in the blink of eye thanks to larva. Plus, in that game, Stephano wasn't really running on sufficient bases so most of the harvesters werent exactly doing anything.

  • @ctsincebay Same income is because MMA had a MULE-peek (moment MULEs bring in heir minerals) and Stephano was transferring Drones to the high yielded expansion. So STFU with ur "imba" whine and learn how to play he game.

  • @DutchSoldier73 ACTUALLY dumb shit, it's because he has 12 mules from three orbitals. each mule is the equivalent of 2 SCV. That means that he has 14 scv PLUS 24 = the income of 38 SCV. The reason I'm saying terran is imba is because unlike your ignorant ass, i actually KNOW the details of the situation.

  • @ctsincebay Look on the minimap? Stephano is CLEARLY transferring Drones. If you can't see that, stop whining about a race being imba. THen, from 3 orbitals you can max. have 6 mules at a time, for about 10 seconds. Then the oldest MULE dies. No race is imbalanced, you're just shit. And no, this is not an opinion, this is a fact.

  • @DutchSoldier73 HAHA wtf are you talking about, he is not transferring drones at ALL at that time. he transferred like.... 3 or 4 BEFORE the attack. Also, you can have FOUR MULES per orbital, for a total of 12, and they last 90 seconds. Fuck you don't even know what you're talking about? It's like you're arguing about the stock market when you work at McDonalds. Seriously, just shoot yourself now, because idiots like you just drag society down.

  • @ctsincebay You can in theory have 4 MULEs per orbital, but when you want to get the best efficiency you land 1 right at 50 energy, thus having 1 MULE at a time. Now you get 50 energy in +-80 secs, so you have 2 MULEs per orbital for about 10 seconds. And in fact, most of the time the MULE will die on its last trip from patch to OC. So your point is proven wroong. Sorry. Now get a therapy assistent because I think you need anger control lessons.

  • @DutchSoldier73 Odd, because in this video he has 6 at the same time. Also, when it comes to command centers (thus alllowing quick replenishment of scv), they are basically free, since one mule already recovers about 275 minerals in it's life span, plus the 3 SCV it would produce in that minute and a half, which means it's... free. Keep this in mind! If a zerg loses his drones he's fucked, has to choose either drones or army. Terran? No worries, SCV and army at the same time! EZ

  • @ctsincebay As said, out of 3 Orbitals you'll have 6 MULEs some time. Then if you are late to call them and call them @ 55-60 energy the time you have 2 MULEs will be more. Or if you want to save them up for a new expansion, that's possible as well. And even though Zerg needs to choose between army and supply, they can make drones quicker than any race, and rebuild way quicker than normal as well.

  • @DutchSoldier73 Regarding the mules, let's face it, while 5-6 mules is typical during frequent use, most people including pros don't take the time to mule while in a battle because they're already busy fighting. Also, the statement that zerg can build drones faster than anyone is a fallacy, because as you can see dropping mules takes NO time, and let's SAY there are only 6 -- that's an instant 12 SCV worth of income with ZERO build time, compared to 2 base with injection of

  • @ctsincebay The point is that forgetting to drop MULEs, then dropping them later (and you're right, that happens a lot) is less efficient than dropping a MULE right when you can. So the optimal situation is the one I described. Of course, after a big battle there tends to be a MULE peak, where pro's dump their energy in MULEs. That gives them a high income for 90 seconds, instead of a (slightly better) average income all the time.

  • @DutchSoldier73 14 larvae MINUS three for overlords, not to mention the build time. Also, if they have killed all your drones, chances are they still have some army so you'll be using all your larvae to rebuild army for defense, NOT drones. Early game, they have absolutely NO advantage over protoss, who can use chrono and build probes at the SAME SPEED. Terran may be a little slower but can also make army at the same time, so they can pressure while rebuilding, unlike zerg.

  • @ctsincebay On 2 base a Zerg can have a macro hatch, so optimal situation would be 21 larvae minus 3-4 overlords. That's faster than Terran and Protoss can produce early game. Especially if you don't have to make an army, you can replenish 17-18 drones in 30 seconds. There is no way a T or P might do that. Ofcourse, most of the time in the middle game you need to make army, but even then you have like 5-6 drones left most of the time, which is still more than T or P can make on 2 base.

  • @DutchSoldier73 Actually dumb shit, it's NOT faster. Let me explain in bronze terms for you. WITH macro hatch and another queen (which is NOT early game. Until you get around the 25+ drone count point in the game, a toss will hang RIGHT beside you, and the terran will fall slightly behind by 5-6 SCV (but with mules, is same income!) When you get that macro, it's already past the 6 minute mark, so you need to start making army. You're not making many drones at that point.

  • @DutchSoldier73 Still, let's say everyone is a bronze and they're playing no rush 10 minutes. (I don't but you might!) In THIS case, I could see droning on three hatches being faster, but not really by much because if that's the case, ABSOLUTELY the terran would have a third orbital, and just to put it into perspective, they can make their army along side of SCV, unlike zerg needs to make one or the other, not to mention every time a building is made, a drone is lost!

  • @DutchSoldier73 You really have a very poor understanding of the game. If you're terran, which I suspect you are, you are used to just building up a huge army on 1 or 2 base and then pushing and winning. There's really little to no game sense required for any terran below mid platinum. Only around mid platinum do you need to start understanding how shit works. That's why I say -- if you want to know a terrans game level -- take their league and subtract one, and you've got it.

  • @ctsincebay I'm not sure that top level Zerg players are so different. I've watched lots of 1v1s and it seems that spare let's say Leenock of late, most Zergs prefer waiting just as much as Terrans/Protosses.

  • @bumshka21 The point is that a two base terran can build and fund an army better than a two or three base zerg. Plus, with just a few drops, and an investment of only 8 marines each time, they can keep sniping zerg buildings. Trading 8 marines to snipe a spawning pool is totally worth it, and keeps the zerg production way down. Once the terran has about 3 tanks and a bevy of marines, with a couple of marauders mixed in to slow the banes, they can camp outside and slow push to a win.

  • @ctsincebay 'Just 8 'rines and a Drop'; sir, that's 500/100 on resources. And have you seen marines against a pool? It doesn't go down quickly in any sense of the word. It takes about 15-20 seconds if they are stimmed. Just doing the maths backs my point.

    I don't disagree that Terrans are more suited to turtling than Zerg, but that's the style of the race. Which are more versatile: Mutas or Viking/Banshee? I think the difference in strength comes down to Zerg is more difficult to micro.

  • @bumshka21 That's 500/100 invested to snipe a building. It takes 7 seconds per 500 damage to armored structures. A pool takes just 14 seconds to snipe, a hatch takes just 21 seconds to snipe. In reality that is VERY little time. Many times they can just snipe a building, pick up, and leave. Even if they did sack the marines at a cost of 400, it's totally worth it because especially with medivac support, they'll almost always inflict at LEAST double that cost in damage. Usually more...

  • @ctsincebay It is worth it as you've said in pure resource trading. But you're assuming that the MVac isn't spotted by a OvLord, that the T only targets the pool (and not say, drones) or the entirety isn't countered by Spine/Queen/Offensive Units.

    As for Time, for Pros that length is HUGE. Maybe our viewings differ considerably, but of the 100+ ZvTs I've seen, at MOST 20%/5% drops go unseen/kill the pool off, respectively.

    However, I'd argue mutas/BlingsDrops are > the above, a la 2010 TLO

  • @bumshka21 That's all fine and dandy but face it, you can have a dual medivac drop enroute long before mutalisks pop. Even IF the zerg didn't do shit but rush tech to mutas, and the terran was slow, they'd have to catch the medivacs mid flight, but the problem is there'd only be 2-4 mutas, which 8 marines can easily polish off. Also, with the medivac backing them up, 8 marines can fairly easily pop off a spine and a couple of queens.

  • @ctsincebay I mean, this conversation becomes a little pointless when you just double your side of the inequality, so to speak. Producing 2Mvacs+16Rines is that much more of an investment, esp. when factoring the likelihood that for your timing that's ALL the T's forces. And I'm fairly sure I've witnessed even fewer games where that's been the case.

    Meanwhile, with exception to Leenock's BLings micro @ MLG-RI, I haven't seen any Z micro like TLO used to of individually Ling/Mutas. Have you?

  • @bumshka21 Of course zerg want to wait as LONG as possible because they need an infinite supply of units to break down a terran or protoss army. Seriously it takes at least 2 200/200 roach/infestor/corruptor armies to deal with a single protoss ball, for example. The worst part however, is that if they are past half map when they kill your army, your chance of getting enough roaches out at the front of the base to finish the job is ALMOST impossible.

  • @ctsincebay If that's the case, how did Leenock just win MLG Providence? He beat essentially every single top protoss and terran in the world at that tournament. By demonstrating that if you choose not to 'drone hard' you can tactically manage a win.

  • @DutchSoldier73 SO DUMBASS, 38 SCV worth of income is roughly the same as 40 drones of income. Fucking retard, you don't even KNOW what you're talking about. Oh and keep this in mind fucktard; mules don't use food so that's 16 supply that can be used for army. You fucking terrans just enjoy having an OP race and come up with the most pitiful of defense based on NOTHING more than your unsubstantiated OPINIONs.

  • holy zerglingssss

  • This caster is awesome, who is it?

  • 1:20 , hdstarcraft got strangled

  • stephano is one scary dude... better than idra

  • "trying to elongate tht stick" xD

  • 5:58 Any time you see one roach, there are at least a dozen others hiding in the walls.

  • i'd like to play like stephano omg mass baaaaaneellliiiiiiiiiiiing!!!

  • Man this guys are mad :D

  • Crazy good series.

  • Why the FUCK did he not attack straight after breaking those goddamn rocks? I like this guy but seriously what the fuck - you take a terran totally by surprise and then just sit there and let him organise a defence. Massive mistake right there. ALSO yeah mules kinda do need a nerf.

  • If Terran or Protoss kill 60+ of Zergs drones, there is a 0% chance the Zerg can pull off any kind of comeback.... yet here Terran makes it look almost easy, and dragged this game out way longer than it should have been.... Once again NERF MULES. You should get smaller returns from mules when you have LESS SCVs.

  • @WrecklessRecluse Limit simultaneous mules, that's the solution. Without mules early game chronoboosted probes and mass drones will put T at a big disadvantage economically. The problem with mules is when you get all your workers killed mid-late game and you can spam tons of them at once. So maybe 2 at a time or something like that.

    Alternatively, give a mule drop a range, so each Orbital can only drop them at the minerals they are mining.

  • @Plethora222 Why compare mules to drones? If Z makes mass drones they have no larva for units, then u die. Mules and Chrono boost give P and T advantages, massing drones does not give Z advantage, its sacrificing larva that could be made for units.

  • nerf mules.

  • I think MMA's initial barracks placement was an attempt at baiting a rush out of Stephano. At the very least, he got Stephano to delay his hatch, and overproduce early lings.

  • He didn't elongate that stick.

  • Tarade?

  • 7:10 MMA has15 SCVs while Stephano has 40 drones but Stephano is only collecting 500 more minerals than MMA because of the MULE. Balanced? I think not.

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  • Stephano has horrible in game decision making. Blows my mind... :-/

  • @bbowers825 i mean he had like 1 mess up where he could have attacked from the side. but that was really it. he beat a really good korean.

  • @TheBennyisCool Mistake: 7:20 - He massed units to try to end the game against a turtle terran who was already pumping Mauraders.

    Mistake: 9:04 - Again making units to try an attack when he should be focused on econ.

    Mistake: 9:57 - Having decided to make an attack, he sat for a good 20 seconds, doing nothing.

    Mistake: 11:15 - Continued attack on a turtle terran, against MULTIPLE TANKS.

    The only reason he won this game was because of the early damage he did. He almost threw it away.

  • @bbowers825

    Theres a difference between a turtle terren, and a turtle terren who double expanded. If you "never" attack a terren nomatter how boldly he expands, you are making just as big of a mistake as in attacking him

  • roflstomp, amazing stuff stephano

  • Hey HD can u cast some matches from the new slayers member eve she is HOOOOT and also plays good ;-)

  • sick :D

  • god doesnt exist there is only Iire

  • @JuanchoMan So... you basicly come here to say this?

    1st of all, yes, it does exist, if you don't wanna belive, then don't need to

    2nd, why did you came HERE to say that?

  • @jotathenoble HD said "only god knows.. blah blah blah" and it prompted me to say that... also i was unaware that my right to freedom of speech had been taking away when viewing sc2 videos... -.-

  • @JuanchoMan well thats ur opinion, but all your doing is making aithiest people seem douchier, because 1st of all it doesnt help that a large majority of you quote the bible just to annoy people, and it makes it worse just to tell people that God doesnt exist. btw u spelled life wrong. but just to let you know the bible proves that he does. there has been proof that things in the bible did in fact take place and it is incredibly historically accurate. so u can think incorrectly if u want to.

  • @TheBennyisCool how exactly does the bible "prove" gods existence? also its not life its "ire" as in "My life for Ire!". I misspelled it, I am sorry.

  • @JuanchoMan no its actually "My life for Aiur" lol referring to protoss's home planet

  • @imakecolloshuehue oh shit i misspelled it again then xD thanks

  • Zerg too strong

  • @sanddune1981 no its perfectly balanced MMA just didnt have a big enough army.

  • whats the deal with all of the supply depots at the bottom of the ramps?

  • @theDragonaut it prevents from opponents walling you in. (like toss pylons)

  • Is everyone dumb here? MMA doesnt lose 60 Harvester on the on hand, also he hasn't Higher Income...cry more! Blizzard has Grandmaster-Players balancing the game, they will know it better, I guess?

  • Beating MMA: Stephano his stock just went through the roof!!

  • no fucking wonder MMA can keep coming back after losing 62 workers......hes a Terran.

  • lol... Elongate the stick.

  • GG stephano t'es un boss !

  • so classic, great series!

  • thats right! well played zerg!!!!

  • the overlord saw the barracks, huh, weird, looks like a command center :P go get some sleep HD

  • Terran: 14 workers

    Zerg : 40 harvester

    Terran has higher income. what bull.

  • @Ataro104 mules = OP obviously

  • @Ataro104 welcome to the world of triple orbital command.

  • L O f*ckin L, early roaches bust in and totally smash the terran in the face, but then immediately afterwards he has more mineral income than the zerg because of the mules he forgot to drop during the attack. you know what happens when a zerg forgets to inject? it isnt pretty... that seems pretty BS to me

  • even though MMA is terran he can be annoying with those mutas... lol

  • 15:45 one of the biggest 1As I´ve ever seen in pro-gaming.

  • 15:45 the biggest 1A I´ve ever seen on pro-gaming!

  • Blunt not brunt

  • Yeah those stockholders and Investors won't be pleased

  • the amount of eminem on the field lol 14:03

  • stephano so good god dammit

    but he would get raped by MKP

    marine rape

  • You want to see an awesome Zerg battle? Stephano vs DRG will be my bet.. :D

  • Our big french hope...he is young and he still makes some macro mistakes but his 83% win on ladder and his latest performances on tournaments are pretty awesome.He is on a straight line, compared to few months ago.

    A bit more time and he will be ready for korea :)

  • Stephano vs. Idra

  • @xiaoina Idra is overrated ...

  • I think mma did fake the cheese, to delay the 15 hatch of stephano otherwise he would ´ve build his rax more hidden...

  • i'm noob in this game, can you tell me which one is the Terrant?

  • @uruguayitorip MMA and its Terran without the t

  • @3p7ic tnks :)

  • 11:43 : "He's gonna try to elongate that stick"

    titter titter

  • srsly HD u misread tanks vs roach/ling :P

    also stephano never builds banelings????

  • I didnt expect stephano to overcommit as he is a pro gamer ~

  • "MMA is beeing annoying with his Mutalisks"

  • i never see the best unit used anymore the hydralisk???? why there brutal

  • begin f the game i abnged my head ont he table so opften. mma doing standard 1 rax expand and hd just won stop talking about "proxy" o.O

  • damn hell... now THAT is a zerg swarm! MMA must've broke a sweat when he saw all those ling/bling detected by the sensor tower. lol. anyways HD, great series!

  • question: how many players would have gged or ragequit being in a situation like 7:03?

    sad answer: everybody...

    MMA and stephano bring sc2 playing ona a new lvl!

  • the very first racks in that "unusual" spot wasnt "proxy-racks". i think he makes the chokepoint smaller which leads to his natural. but as the game continues he understood it wasnt that good move ^^.

  • Man, HD really beat the shit out of that Great Depression joke xD

  • I like HD because he sounds like he's always excited :DDD and it makes me even more excited :DDDDDDD

  • HD, remember not to trust the worker count- all them OP Mules.

  • That rush Stephano did at the end was nothing short of beautiful O:

  • @SyzygyTT I would like to mention he also said there were 8 banelings being produced. IDK HD is there a baneling nest?

  • @SyzygyTT I know right? too funny. he saw them morphing in and commented on it too :P

  • @SyzygyTT He meant centrifugal hook for sure. But still...

  • @SyzygyTT i guess he wanted to say: where is his banling nest :D

  • i read the top comments and i just cant wait to see what happens lol

  • stop calling every attack an all in.

  • 11:44 he's gonna try and elongate that stick

    okay HD okay.

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  • MMA was nowhere near his usually skill level these games

  • hd prob faceplam so much when he watches this again

  • mma played awful i feel hes so overrated i would almost say his mlg victory wasnt deserved since idra still couldve won that game

  • @Wickedsicked8 You're an idiot.

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  • I think it is a stupid idea to try outmacro zerg. They just have it too easy to catch up with any kind of income advantage terran might have... It is just stupid to try to get fast 3rd against zerg... they will just get fast 5th and go kill you with attack+move.

  • @szopad clearly ur not using tank marine properly if ur losing to a move u dont need to get a fast third to outmacro zerg shit mules outmacro zerg by themselves

  • @Wickedsicked8 actually no, zerg has better macro even if terran uses mules

  • @szopad not if u harass in nyway drops dont even need to be researched and hellions are cheap as hell u can outmacro zerg if u harass the only harass zerg has is mutas easily countered by 2 thors

  • @Wickedsicked8 Drops are negated by mutas if there's control. Zerg late game macro is unmatched by any race, that is why they're so difficult to deal with late game.

  • @Wickedsicked8 actually, terran's dropships are much easier to counter than zerg's overlord drops with zerglings ;]

  • @szopad HOW lol overlords need 2 upgrades as well as dont heal the weaker zerglings inside baneling drops maybe but even then u should throw up a few missile turrets for mutas way b4 ovie drops available

  • @Wickedsicked8 It's easier to drop as a zerg because overlords are cheap, you have a lot of them and terran's army is slow. It's much easier to deny terran's dropships. You can just creep over your base or put 1 spine crawler behind your mineral line. Zerglings and mutas counter dropships pretty hard. And it is not worth it to lose 500m 100g on a drop that has 10% chance of succes. Especially is zerg has infestors.

  • @szopad ur stupid because with zerg u have upgrade oerloord speed and ventral sacs whitch is 300min and 300gas and takes a while to upgrade.also terran needs harrassment too stay in the game with a good zerg.zerg also has too cover more bases and constantly run around defending drops and constantly reproducing queens,drones, and fixing gyser counts

  • @szopad 1 spine crawler doesnt deny drops overlords cost supply and larvae dropships have more than 10% chance of success infestors arent fast and mutaling is a weak combo missile turrets alone wreck overlords

  • @Wickedsicked8 overlord cost supply? you sound like a wood league

  • @szopad You're crazy to think that Stephano won simply by attack moving. In all three games his micro was immaculate.

  • Stephano killed 61 workers at 12:47 and MMA hadn't killed even one drone. Wow

  • lol HD made so many mistakes it makes it all the more hilarious

  • 8:22 Queen riding roaches

  • @SisarothSC LOOL! they were like "move your fat ass queen!" haha, too funny.

  • @SisarothSC x~D

  • More Stephano :)

  • 16:04 i loled so hard that green splash its so funny

  • Great cast as usual HD! awesome work!

  • damn that comment about trying to elongate that stick cracked me upp

  • zergasm

  • I want to see more MMA HD

  • are these players in diamond league?

  • @redryan20000 i think so, cause im pretty sure im way better than this crap

  • HD is getting old....he keeps making mistakes

  • Woh that is all..

  • Am I the only one who thinks that Mules are imba? He loses 4/5th of his eco but still can take the game so far....

    hmmmm, sounds balanced :)