StarCraft 2 GREATEST OF ALL TIME? Serral vs Maru - Grand Finals
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- StarCraft 2 Team Liquid Starleague 9 Grand Finals - World Champion Serral and Rank 1 Zerg takes on 4x GSL Winner and Rank 2 Terran Maru in a battle to define the greatest StarCraft 2 player ever.
StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void - Team Liquid Starleague 9 - Grand Finals - Serral (Zerg) vs Maru (Terran) - Best of 7 (Winner Bracket 1 game advantage)
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He really plays a cinematic version of Zerg. A truly endless swarm that just dies and dies and dies, but eventually overwhelms
How can anyone be so knowledgeable, intelligent and witty at the same time? My IQ is up 20 points and my mood equally elevated after watching/listening to this video!
Dude is the best caster of all time, easy.
Serral is so good, and so is Maru, I find it quite interesting that even when Serral has won already by any normal standard Maru still makes him work to pull himself over the fin(n)ish line.
Is serral the greatest of all time? Of course he is~
I always love seeing a Serral match casted by Winter. Nothing is better than to kick back with my popcorn and coke, watching some of the most epic games available
Boxer v. Flash
But hey, I'm old.
Hey, I've watched your content on and off for a while, and its great to come back and you're still consistently good, your wordplay your game knowledge, all good stuff, thanks for the content
Welcome to another episode of GOAT(s)ERRAL.
Always great to watch the strongest sc2 player in the world against the strongest terran.
These thumbnails keep getting better and better
Winter is a great commentator, I've seen the exact same match live, but his stream is different, love watching it.
What an exciting matchup! I didn't know they faced off in the Grand Finals so this will be a great casting to watch from you.
Serral is like Zap Brannagan
Just sending wave after wave of his own men.
in the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
As someone who is new to starcraft watching serral play is overwhelmingly exciting and even tho I don't know the game well I could tell how much maru was being completely overwhelmed most of the games by the sheer amount of expansions and Zerglings his opponent had.
Serral was 5 bases ahead but only 6k minerals behind in losses.
good God Serral is too good. he's the heart, the fury, the fist, the soul, or the whatever important part of the Swarm. I think we could even say that he IS the Swarm.
The spawn of Kerrigan herself.
I am blind, and yet I can STILL see Serral is the GOAT
Serral is the GOAT.
Watched this live on Winter twitch the other night. GREAT GAMES
The nerves to stick to Ling Bane Waves cause the math adds up in the end. Super clean and methodical game by Serral.
But it does seem that games where he is low(er) eco seem to be the best shot for his opponents. Especially that Showtime game was beautiful.
I watched this series on the original broadcast. Maru kept massaging his wrist, even during a game's early minutes. He's definitely not at 100% right now, and I think his lack of focus prob from the wrist pain showed pretty clearly here. Their epic clashes are usually a lot closer than this one was.
Yea Maru was lookimg i little bit off during this series
Thanks for being a constant force in SC2. Always enjoy the content.
Winter, I love your casting. I love that you are mostly calm and that you don't overexcited like Pig and other English casters.
I don’t know what’s a more interesting matchup to watch anymore: Maru vs Serral or Serral’s Infestors vs Maru’s Ghosts.
What would make Protoss more playable? What if they got some sort of spell like the queen but instead of spawn larva it gave existing mineral patches more total minerals (regrowing used or close to depleted patches bringing them back slowly up to the original amount). It would favor late game builds, so probably slow down the game.
They could have a stationary building that is a mix between a bunker and a medevac. It could protect a few units lowering there damage because they are being healed but they would regain health as fast as Zerg, so slowly (maybe 2x Zerg normal heal speed). This would work for mechanical and flying too.
They could have a merge like archons for zealots that gives them more health, reflective damage shields (meaning if they are hit by projectiles it also damages the enemies a small amount), but instead of attacking they have a passive area of effect slowing and a small damage over time effect (like a poison, maybe stackable) just being close to enemies.
For the sentry revamp the force field, make it damage somehow, maybe make it similar to the auto turret or the removed infested Terran, possibly let your own units enter the field making them like bunkers. Or make it be able to capture enemy units like stasis ward.
I feel like Protoss should have a damage, shield energy, and or spell energy increase if they are within the power effect of pylons (maybe choose one and make it a temporary triggered ability/spell). Giving their energy based weapons and shields an additional +1 +0 +1 (up to total +4) (regular armor would be uninfected).
Possibly give gateways a reactor like attachment or upgrade, that allows for you to create certain units like a normal gateways (only spawn at the gateway) + continue to allow the regular amount of warp ins.
So it's settled: Serral is 🐐!
I saw the game live and I was waiting for you! Yuhu!
Ah crimson tide sound track there at the end of the third match!
You're the best caster I know of. Really enjoy your work.
He makes Zerg look broken.
Because it is? And has been for many years now. How many consecutive Zerg world champions are we at now?
It's kinda wild how absurdly good he is
@@alexandrel4569 well these champions are mostly serral, reynor and rogue, I don't think the race has too much to do with their skills. Those infestor EMP over ghosts are extremely difficult to do. I don't think seeing any other zerg be able to do it so easily like Serral.
@@alexandrel4569 Except, it isn't. Nobody is pulling wins like that except Serral and Reynor. You can't assert that an entire race is broken just because a couple players are gods among men. If it was truly broken you'd see high rates with it throughout the entirety if the ladder, but you don't, because it's not the race that's inherently strong, it's those specific players who are head and shoulders above the rest
@@alexandrel4569 Looking at the top 3 is misleading. If you expand that to the top 20 players in 2022: Zerg accounts for 25%, Protoss 35% and Terran 40%. Oh and Reynor also plays Protoss, so the percentages might be even less favorable for Zerg though who knows how to do that math. 😜
I'd have loved to watch the whole finals from Serral's fp pov.
It always gets me... Whenever I see serral vs maru... It always gets me...
Best two players in the world, and always worth it to see them go head to head.
Holy sheesh these thumbnails are so fresh. Super exited for this series
Wooow - Maru quickly putting a few scvs inside the middle of a Liberator siege area to keep them safe while also fully defending the forward base in the final game...
Why can't Terrans have Hunter Missile? Zerg get fungle and parasite bomb.
Winter's thumbnail game is leveling up to boss status!
I simply love your humor and commenting
Love the borg analogy :)
Really enjoyable commentary, thanks for the videos
blessed thumbnail
Emp’ing the ghosts wasn’t the finishing blow, it was the starting blow to the next game. Morale was obliterated
I want to see archon mode matches with maru and Clem.
I dont think serral is GOAT, but he is the best player currently.
you made my day a little better 🙏
38:45 ye they are in CHUCK NORRIS mode 😂
That a finish. Nueral a ghost to EMP! lol Ghost counter with infested ghost lol
This game will be totally different if zergs can feel fear instead of being controlled by a hive mind. I can see a zerg worker's union being formed and requesting safer work conditions along with anti sacrificial job requirements.
54:08 Did that widowmine kill the medivac?
Edit: No it did not :D
honestly it's a sad state when A Clicking 4 full waves of zergling win games against the best Micro Terran.
I always want to see nydus networks in the late game because it feels like so much untapped potential with ground armys
Hey, let's create a tournament to see who's the best! Let's also give one of them a huge advantage in the finals!
The tournament invalidated itself with this move.
Do you know how these tournaments work? Maru lost a full match to someone before reaching the finals, Serral didn't. Most games that use a double elimination style tournament actually require the player coming from the loser's bracket into the finals to win two full sets in order to win the finals, which in this case would have been two full best of fives, while the player from the winner's bracket would only have to win one of those two.
A double elimination bracket allows for you to not be on your absolute a-game for every single match, while not requiring a group stage. Depending on the total amount of participants, this can be hugely beneficial, but as a result, one of the two people in the finals gets some form of advantage because if they don't, they actually have a disadvantage, since they would then be the only player in the tournament to be eliminated after a single loss, instead of two
Love this content winter daddy ❤️ keep it up 💪
Honestly i just don't get why don't terrans play the marine hellbat composition instead of marine marauder tank or whatever against the mass zergling style. The tanks do more damage to their own units and manage to fire two shots max before they get flanked and killed, every damn time, meanwhile they cost more, take more to build and are immobile or can get caught unsieged making them almost useless. I'd honestly love to see how one of these games plays out if terrans build marine hellbat medivac only
The second you stop making tanks the zerg holds down the roach key and amoves your main
You'll never see what happens because its a terrible idea in the mid game for so many reasons.
@@kenners1993 oof I've definetly felt that one before
@@kenners1993 you don't need many tanks and if you skimp on marines since you have hellbats you can have more marauders
I like that winter just came out and said it. "The counterplay to ghosts is spam huge numbers of T1 trash units so there's nothing to snipe". Ghosts are so game warping they prevent the zerg from making anything but lings, banes, and 3-4 vipers for the mandatory blinding clouds so they don't get deleted by siege tanks.
Skill issue
So in other words Zerg is in full control of when to tech or not to tech. Also Zerg has by far the most flexible unit composition. Sounds OP to me.
@@kaiser2261 my opinion is that zerg has a lot of play styles, but each unit is easily counterable by other races' specific units. Ghosts are the counter for every zerg late game units, yet is weak against massive amount of lings.
Lings, on the other hand, are weak against splash dps like tanks and hellbat.
The way i see it, serral pressures maru with lings while maru started to mass ghosts starting at the start of late game phase. Since maru built the counter for late game units, serral pounded him with continuous wave of lings.
Granted with time, i guess maru would've switched into hellbat-tank-mine style that would've bankrupted serral's bank.
@@asyrafilanuar4972 yeah but you can instantly remax on whatever unit comp you want so long as you hit your injects. Terran cant just make 20 ghosts to counter a sudden lurker switch for instance.
@@kaiser2261 there were instances where i see maru turtled his games. In it, he scouted zerg's techs and denied as much zerg expansion as possible while he made expansions himself. They know how much zerg rely on remaxing, but each remax is expensive and maru successfully exploited that weakness by calling down as much mules as he could to rob the map from resources. At the end of those games, i saw serral do the exact same thing, pushing maru every time, but he always runs out of resources first.
I don't know what had changed in this tournament, but he did that last time.
Whoever in the past that got 8th place prize of bit coins (if they still have it) Has far more millions then Serral, Maru, Rogue combined, probably.
How come the score is already 1 - 0 during game one?
What am I missing as an ignorant non-esports enjoyer here?
Because of the way the earlier brackets went, serral starts up a point or something idk.
Maru lost earlier in the tournament most likely. I believe it is an A/B tournament format so if you lose you enter the B bracket. The winner of the B bracket faces the A bracket with a disadvantage (since the A bracket hasn't lost in the tournament yet). Often what happens is that the B bracket winner will have faced their competitor then defeated the B bracket semifinalist to win a rematch.
Winter said it at the beginning, Serral came from the upper bracket and Maru from the lower, so did drop a series on the way to the finals, while Serral did not. So the +1 match for Serral is basically a reward.
Jesus the 156 lings in production is not something you see every day
Are banelings truly fair?
Wow, totally outclassed this time. Serral is the best, but this looked like easy mode. I'm glad Serral doesn't play in GSL, because that would have made it less exciting to watch.
Like Reynor did?
You could give these ling bane armies to 90% of other zerg pros, and they'd still lose to Maru, Serral's assault micro control is legendary.
I just watched Showtime do the same thing to Maru on the same map as the last game of this series, just using Protoss instead of Zerg.
The difference was showtime was massively ahead in that game and should of won in 10 mins but ghosts are too stronk vs Protoss… was definitely much more even with showtime who was running out of money at the end
15:03 Guys whats the soundtrack name at 15 minutes + ? Where can i find the music ?
would it be too OP if medivacs had an upgrade that lets them heal two units simultaneously?
Yes, medivacs are already really strong
@@nfzeta128 Parasitic Bomb would like to know your location.
@@dontpokethekenny You mean the one that doesn't kill medivacs unless one take at least one and a half of them? Not to mention how viper energy is practically gained
Maru with a borderline bm gg timing in that first game.
Serral just ran Maru off the map in games 3 and 4. I never knew ling-bane could do so much
I love the smell of terran player tears in the morning. :)
Resistance is futil ... wait a few seconds ... and he will take your price money! The match is only half as good as it is without the biting comments. I love it.
Oh yeah! Let's gooooooo!
absolutely awesome
Wow game two last 20 seconds, I was sure Maru was finished then whatever that was happened.🤣 insane gameplay.
Watching with different commentators is like watching a different game sometimes! I like your style, but you missed kidnapping the medicavs in game 4 by the vipers which was probably what secured the game for Serral.
Everytime i don't see protoss in a finals.. Something doesn't feel right
Serral is so good that I don’t enjoy watching his games. There’s very little tension as he just slowly grinds his opponents to dust.
The Finnisher VS the Myth.. insta like... now lets watch
I love when Korean gods are being put in to place 😂
Wow. Just wow.
what an absolute boss
Nice! :)
Serral is the best it seems.But i dont watch for Serral,i watch for the commentary.Its hilariously serious.
you mean seriously hilarous. xD
@@tuck295q nah think he means it's hilarious how serious the community is about the game
12:55 🧐
🤬Random scrub comment whining about balance based on a single match between the world's two best players 😂
Hey its you again.
The guy who never answered the point about Zerg dominating premier event results for over a year at a 5:1 ratio against the other two races individually.
More like "random scrub comment by a blatant Zerg homer who dickrides Serral because he's a child who identifies as his SC2 race".
I like to think im just providing some thoughts on the matter D:
@1:03:20 - I feel attacked.... and yes... I play terran.... badly...
Serral is just op...
Serral to strong for maru passive play
Anyone else here glad that serral wasn't born russian and then spent his life studying war? That dude has strateegery.
I want to see Serral vs MC.
Master Chief?
For the algorithm
did you skip game 2?
So the Zerg answer to Ghost is Ghost.
Absolute clown show.
And no real hope of a patch to come and fix it.
Great games by both players though. It's not their fault.
25:45 what happened here? How could he cancel the hatch and recontinue???
Serral rebuild it two time really fast, that is barely noticeable.
@@ncubica I did not see the drones - wtf???
really fast fingers :D
you can see the drone for less than a second before the hatch starts again
@@W.W.81 in case you don't play the game when you cancel zerg structures you get back the drone, so he just used that to try building again
@@nfzeta128 Ah, now I got it, thank you. I play Toss on gold league level, so I´m more a spectator than an actual player ;-)
I hope 🤞 Maru can dethrone serral.... He's definitely the final Boss
That's so true, when you think you have conquered the SC2 ladder, there's Serral waiting for you at the top as a final test of skill hahaha
Bit of a complaint here about the current sc2 metagame but I really wish there was more emphasis on teching up to higher tier units rather then spamming low tier ones.
Zerg is espically guilty of this with ling bane and terran to a degree with marines.
ling bane, is one of the highest skill cap builds for mid/late zerg. They are so fragile, yes they are cheap, but only players of Serral's calibre can pull this shit off regularly. Its not just the unit comps, its what the player does with those efficient units
@@djgamer457 I understand and definetly agree that its a hard comp that not everyone can play, I just wish it wasn't.. The optimal comp to play, if that makes sense? I wanna see something different played
Then again zerg doesn't have much good unit variety to begin with tbh so it might be unfair
@@djgamer457 and to be fair its not just zerg either im talking about. I wish terran mech units were more prevelant earlier on so every midgame terran comp isnt just marines maruaders tanks and medivacs
I guess im more ranting about unit diversity in games and wishing more units saw more play
@@owen9456 The problem is the way Maru plays here. He is a very deffensive player that use mass ghosts.... Ghost hard counter any Zerg unit exept for Lings and banes....
@@helenagustafsson3653 Yeah, that definetly is a good reason. Ghosts are super problematic imo (not op, but they do too much in one unit), I just hope they don't get nerfed without compensation or terran late game will suffer a lot.
damn I'm still watching serial vs showtime, the title to this video is a spoiler 😭
I find any tournament videos with Serral in them as boring. We already know who wins. It’s just waiting time until that point.
Dance for me, so i may sleep
this is like League of ....***.... Dota things, with Macro behind
Always see Ling and BanLing, combos. Its disgustingling OP in TvZ matchups
I wish they nerfed banes health and overall damage. Zerg would be completely fucked without that stupid ass unit.
It's not op it's just the only option at higher level play
@@nfzeta128 Iagree which is the sad part, TVZ is just Banes lol
@@TheBboyEnergy agreed
@@TheBboyEnergy And thats why we keep it the way it is - don't wanna fk up the best race :)
I personally don't care for viewing the game with my nose in the sand! Can you please back off a bit and view from a higher position? So I can see more of the area? Thanks :)
More predictable outcome then sun rising next morning...
I dont get why Serral resigns Game 2. He had a small bank, could have thrown down a macro hatch, get more queens and production going while sacrificing the third, transferring to the gold and buy time.
Seems like an ok spot, an Marus eco is crippled so he just needs to play for enough time.
Sure Maru has a big army but it would be worth a try, wouldnt it?
I was a little confused that he left while 30 workers ahead. The only reason I can think is that he couldn't get enough larvae to repel the army at his base.
Serral serum
Woooo
Lots of money tbh