StarCraft 2 - MARU vs SERRAL! - King of Battles 2 | EPIC Finals & SERIES OF THE YEAR!
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![[2021 GSL ST S3] Finals Rogue vs Maru](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CQ1eNyUYYJk/mqdefault.jpg)
![[2021 GSL ST S3] Finals Rogue vs Maru](/img/tr.png)
Note: The "Grand Finals" overlay is fixed at around the 5 minute mark.
First 5 minutes were literally unwatchable due to the wrong overlay :(
Could you upload the whole semis and finals with interviews?
the ultimate mech composition: the macedonian phalanx, or mechidonian phalanx, or mech phalanx
And the bio/hellbat comp is the spaniard tercio formation.
@@nguyenthiphuonganh it's in the Alpha X twitch channel
Could you leave a little more caster reaction after the gg?
Maru is the main reason I'm still watching Starcraft after so many years.
so you see maru lose to life hehehe
Sometimes when I watch another top tier Terran I'm thinking ''Well he sucks'' cause I'm also only used to watching Maru
@@obitouchiha-km3gi I miss Life's games. Love that chaotic high-risk miracle comebacks style.
Most of us
He's the reason I'm still watching this video
This was the BO7 we waited 2 years for, and it did not disappoint.
Sadly not the commentary this matchup deserved
What? I was loving the commentary all the way. Good job lads
@@Bmxkingingingin999 Totally agree! The commentary was good.
Maru only won bc they nerfed Zerg. Serral better.
@@Habeev07 lol, nerf Zerg how? Reynor literally won the Wolrd Championship on the same patch, and Rogue with Dark won multiple GSL championship as well. Stop being salty because your golden boy lost.
The maru comback on game 5 is amazing
yeah really wished we had the face cam on for maru... I wanted to know if he still was stoned face through all that chaotic close calls.
Great game indeed but both side made big mistakes, Serral should push for more advantage after the successful baneling push, and Maru should not go through the choke on retreat, but these mistake just make the game even greater for sure.
my fault for spoiling game 5 before watching but damn was it still an amazing watch. It was hard to believe for a bit that the spoil was even correct.
@@chooingbobo of course but that’s easy for us spectators to say with a god’s eye view and with pause and replay. The absolute highest tier players of sc2 facing off in a crucial 5th game in a final, it’s not about who has no mistakes, but who makes the least and exploits the opponent’s mistakes better. If it was lesser players they probably won’t even have pushed these 2 far enough for us to catch these mistakes. The game would have been over already.
@@chooingbobo Maru scanned serral and saw only ling bane, did not see the lurkers. So maru though it was only banelings, in which case being in a choke is the best thing to do. didn't see the lurkers.
Best SC game I’ve seen in years. Truly a battle of the ages!
Nobody else but Maru could've come back from that far behind against Serral in game 5
exactly, i cant imagine how he can play so well with all that shit going on, late game terran only for expert
Maru: "I'm not trapped in here with you; YOU'RE trapped in here with ME, boy" 🤖👊🏽🇰🇷
Nah dude it was very close
The middle base is very crucial for both players but the lack of better army for seral makes him dead actually run bys is noth enough
@@SavedbyHim lol • serral won 1 map convincingly that wasn't a build order win. (And even that would have killed any other terran at 8mins, not 17) The rest was Maru overpowering him with surpreme efficiency. Apart from Blackburn, it wasn't even *remotely* close. 😉
@@real_MacrocosM Agree. Also, casters are totally biased: serral this, serral that, serral has the advantage, serral is winning..... Mary wins the game
@@juanmanuelfernandez115They talked up Maru plenty.
It's really hard to explain just how good Maru is. It's a shame that non starcraft players will never understand how hard it is to play like he does.
exactly, it's so hard to let non-starcraft players understand how hard it is. btw,
do you have any idea for it?
non-sc players: thank you but we don't even think about you sc guys at all
Yeah..maru was good..not like serral..always play late games.never attack first.damn boring for him
@@tungnse Yet here you are, lol.
Maru will always be my favorite player its just a plus when he shows up in a big way like this!
Maru always amazes me. Many times when Serral won, I always thought about how to fight the insane BroodLord + all Z spellcasters, which are the Zerg's golden armada.
Game 5 was the greatest game I've ever seen, of anything. What a comeback, and he really fought for it. These two are absolute madmen!!!
Some info for Maru fans on the head to head topic. Serral beat Maru every time on bo3, except once, but always with little impact. One qualifier in which Maru qualified anyway, and both of them end up losing in the semifinals (3-2 Maru to Dark, 3-0 Serral to Classic) so I would say Maru got the better end of that tourney slightly. 3 times Serral beat Maru 2-1 in group stages, Maru qualifying second place all those 3 times, Maru winning 2 of those tournaments, and placing third on the other, Serral being eliminated in the first game of the playoffs each of the 3 times. And once and the best one for Serral was a 3-0 against Maru, Maru fell in the lower bracket, reached the semifinals and managed to be beaten by Dark with a close 3-2, the same Dark that will end beating Serral 4-0 in the finals later on. Maru instead eliminated directly Serral every time he won 3-0 Wesg, 3-0 Asus Rog and this finals 4-2. I would say that Maru got the better end of these encounters, and definetly the better torunament results.
Source: Liquipedia h2h
Great contextualization of their encounters
serral would have won this if it was bo3 as well
@@gotentk4 maybe, but if it was bo3 and the finals Maru woulve planned and played different, so it would probably be a different first 3 games, but we will never know.
@@cirruscloud4799 the fact is pretty much no tournament run BO3 finals nowadays, and it would be a very bad decision if one does
This is why Serral isn’t the GOAT. You can’t be the GOAT of basketball by playing in the Euro basketball league and never play in NBA. Serral can’t be the GOAT and not play in GSL. Maru has a trophy labeled G5L waiting for him and it’s looking increasingly likely he will take this trophy in 2022, something no one has ever done. We should pay our respects, Maru is the greatest and that G5L cup will only further prove the point and serve as extra wall decoration.
The event of the century! You were so lucky to be the first ones to have these two in a grand finals! Thanks for putting it all together and uploading it so fast!
After seeing 8-9 minute games, or shorter, 2 hours of this is glorious.
Thank you for dropping the overlays during critical fights. No other casters have that confidence. We can see so much better.
Fun fact:
KoB1 is the first tournament to have Maru vs Serral ever since GvW2018.
KoB2 is the first tournament to have Maru vs Serral finals.
Best series in a long time for sure
Yeah ! We were wiating this game for such a long time !
This is the greatest matchup and the greatest series of ALL time! Its like Rock vs Austin, Nadal vs Federer, Lebron vs Jordan, Ali vs Frasier. For the first time ever we get them at their full glory. Maru is the king of starcraft right now
💯
Lebron vs Kobe u mean
@@someoneyoukill nah..jordan vs lebron
@@juny9445 nah its Larry vs Magic
It's like Mr Bean verse Jack Black.
No need for a dislike button on this set of games. Great games!
I would immediate ban that dislike from watching starcraft ever again
Now im agree there are four races in starcraft: protos, zerg, terran and MARU
Still, Serral wins him more than he wins Serral
@@raphaelantoine7331you are right I think serral has more wins in head to head, both players are amazing the 2 Last games were awesome anyone could win
@@jaroramos8057 yes, I wonder between Maru and Clem who has better TvZ, but I think Clem
@@raphaelantoine7331 very hard cuestione man
@@raphaelantoine7331 you are wrong . Bo1 and Bo3 is nothing since most of it is not important . Bo5 and Bo7 , Maru won more
Wow, what a great series. Maru and Serral are so good. Edge of my seat the entire time.
truly a battle of the ages, Maru is undoubtedly the best player
serral best
@@JH-bb8in According to Aligulac ranking, yeah. According to recent tournament wins and record, its Maru.
@@JH-bb8in I'd agree that Serral is the best Zerg player and it's always anyone's game between him and Maru. But this time around, the glory goes to Maru
wrrrr
@@JH-bb8in In your dreams
After not missing ONE game of SC2 pro games. This is the best SC2 I've seen so far. Best. Wow.
25:18 you will see 20 army supply disappearing as magic! That was a perfect setup for Maru. Hellbats at front, mines and Marines. Perfect defense.
Really insane defense 😳
God of Terran!
MARU! 💪 yes u are
Game 5 is why they say when Maru is behind its level, when he’s level he’s ahead, and when he’s ahead you’re already dead. One of his best ever games. Against fucking Serral.
Every time I hear a castor call a queen 'Brenda' I feel Lowko's contribution to SC2.
2:02:00 Caduceus Reactor was a medivac upgrade in Heart of the Swarm. It increased the Medivac's starting energy by 25.
This is what a grand final suppose to be look like seriously well done by both players
30:46 look at insane maru liberator micro. Things like this is why he is one of the best.
Round 5 just shows what 2 goats can do in a long scrappy game. That is the greatest round ever played. Counters after counters, very tactical and at the same time durable game.
This is a physics experiment every single time Maru and Serral play: The Unstoppable Force vs. The Immovable Object
Been waiting for this.
the first 2 matches already blew my mind. That was insane army control
Happy seeing mass thors and helion are played :)
That was absolutely epic. Thank you so much for hosting these, AlphaXsc2!
Our pleasure and thank you for watching!
I'm looking forward to this match , Maru is best player Terran to me , this is super classic match , between two player the best
Both players in a Final playing seriously is what we be waiting for a long time....
This. Is. EPIC.
Thats a big boy upload right there! Thanks!!
Maru is the GOAT!
Great match!! It was exactly what I want to 👀 🙌🏽 Ty for production 👏
That game 5 was the Maru/Serral match the world has been waiting for.
best ever
i haven't seen a comeback that impressive since Mvp vs Innovation at wcs s1 finals 2013 on akilon.
I have
MVP vs Squirtle
MVP vs Stephano
MVP vs Nestea
1:22:19 medevacs: empty and 7 ghosts picked up
1:22:25 Rushi: 'the ghosts had nowhere to go and the medevacs were already full so no lift-off available there'
LOL good catch. There's just so much going on it would be impressive if they caught that.
@@jjonlee i was more like how can they watch this and not catch that
lol
Yeah I saw that too. It was a funny thing to miss.
Great series. The both of them are legends
These are at such a high level, it's so entertaining
Fabulous ! The Nirvana of SC2 ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Maru is the most talented sc2 player ever, being able to play late games against the best zergs and win, when zergs have so much going for them in late games
agree, you never heard something like "sloppy play by Maru"
To be fair not many Terran player unlock the full power of Terran at late game. This Race just hard to play at 100% power compare to Zerg and Protoss but if you can play like Maru then Terran will stronger than Late Zerg.
@@ivanleon6164 Well, to be fair, he does play like a baboon a time, like the lost to Meomaika in WESG, or recently to Bunny in TSL. Its like he just making terrible decision and lost the game.
Whos the higher-pitch voice narrator? He definetely got a great sense of humor, love it!
I believe that would be Rushi - he killed it the entire final day and it was a pleasure to work with him!
We've waited 3 years for this match. It did not disappoint.
F*ck. Kudos to these 2 players for being absolutely inhuman. Peak SC2. Long live the Terran Dominion!
Insane series
Epic series. Great casting with the insight.
Thanks!
What a series indeed 🤯🤯🤯
I cannot believe how much this series lived up to the hype.
Maru god best in the world atm hands down
he is Chinese I believe
wrrrrr
great game, great cast!
That was awesome!
good games Alpha, keep uploading these successful videos greetings from Peru
Thanks, will do! Greeting to you too!
What's an insane battle!
You could say it’s the king of them! You could even say it twice ;)
Awesome series! The commentary suffered from a bit of "Serralitis", e.g. Game 3 1:00:55 questioning whether Maru can survive, predicting a "massively superior" Serral army, thinking it's okay (even preferable?!?) for Serral to lose his 4th with the hope of establishing a gold base instead, etc. Within 2 mins Maru has a 20 army supply lead and a major eco lead . The rest is history. I guess the question was whether Serral can survive...
Yeah, there was a huge bias in the cast, they kept saying the wrong name for players and units the whole cast too, real C tier caster energy, luckily the games were so good you can kinda just ignore them
@@SerechII Honestly mixing up the players' names just kind of happens and isn't a big deal. I actually liked their energy too. I don't even mind hype-casting tbh. The thing that gets annoying is when they confidently call/predict the game wrong and don't acknowledge it. They could learn something from Tasteless on that one, lol.
Easily mistaken because they dont see any terran half as good as Maru regularly so that kind of fight favors zerg in their mind
go maru
I love how in Game 1 Serral just kept on blindsiding the commentators and Maru, was great fun!
Game 4 3rax build by Maru originates from Byun. Maru talks to Byun about what he should do against top tier Z quite often. In an interview, Maru jokes about he should stop listening to Byun's recommendation because lately it's been all wrong and should just play the game like Clem (more traditional/safer builds). I feel like because Pride of Altaris is such a Z favored map, Maru just went into the game with the mindset that he'd most likely lose, so he gave Byun's build a try lmao.
Maru does take a lot of build from other Terran players. The 2 factory widow mines drop non-stop are from Cure, 2-1-1 was also a popular build from Byun a year back. Maru also mix in CC first build or 3CC expansion build as well.
Maru takes advices from Byun and Ryung, and he says it helps him a lot.
That 2 hour game felt like less than an hour. GG!
I'm a big Maru fan. It's so much fun to watch him play the wonderful game of SC2.
great casting thank you!
Thank you and glad to hear you enjoyed the casting!
Rogue says this was basically a 6-0 for Maru EZ :P
1:33:40 is a battle of the ages
Serral and scarlette are so fun to watch you too Mr. Maru.
I'de really like to see a more destructible environment in sc3. .. imagine a Planetary crashing into the ground and creating a crater or destroying what it lands on?.. or siege tanks actually changing the map .. basically like the destructible rocks but on a full map scale.. another idea would be unit corpse memory.. they don't disappear.. you just got dead stuff everywhere XD
At the very least.. slower decomposition of units... Marines slowly get covered with dirt.. destroyed vehicles slowly burn or serve as cover
I think it'd be cool to have units that can alter terrain as well: ie Terran has a bulldozer that can build cliffs or bridges. That probably gets impossible to balance though.
One of Greatest Battle Ever! Congrats MARUUU!!! (y)
This is game with great value!
2:08:38 he has done it again THE MARU NUKE
Seems like Maru's counter to mass Brood Lords are nukes!
Good cast guys
❤️
Wowwwwwwww best serie ever
These guys from alpha x so excited to upload the Grand Finals they forgot to upload the quarter finals! lol
Haha we will be releasing all the matches but just wanted to release this one first!
Rushi Pinkman!
Maru GOAT, no SC2 player will ever beat his record. 4 GSL Code S IN-A-ROW. The only SC2 player who won all 3 Korean Star league. The only other player starcraft (boxer being the other) with 2 royal road record.
You guys are great commentators. I desire analysis and you brought it
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the commentary! 😃
That game 2 was insane
the ultimate mech composition: the macedonian phalanx, or mechidonian phalanx, or mech phalanx
And the bio/hellbat comp is the spaniard tercio formation.
Maru vs Serral is always the best TvZ. The most classic StarCraft battles.
Damn the ghosts are utilized efficiency!
I think what Maru improved over this year is his ghost build. He get the ghost out a bit earlier than before and he use them so well that it doesn't matter if he 's behind in economy. This allow him to confidently extend the match and clutch out the win even when he's behind, since ghost beat almost all of Zerg units (except for Infestor's fungal).
That said his mech build was very good as well.
For sure, it's what's been happening in GSL as well, early Ghosts so that when they are needed, they are already there. Very big difference then when you start building ghosts to counter as it makes it very, very hard to break maru. I mean, come on, some splits in this series were the best I've ever seen, like a Starmap of bio.
Ghost got counter by trash Zerg like Ling bane and they got neft so...
@@anghainguyen9951 And you think other Terran can just win with Ghost as well? show me a couple.
MARU is BACK!
nice casting
❤️
Zerg players are crazy hard on late game.
Maru: hold my bear lol
Fight of the titans ! Way better than Gozilla vs Kong !
wr
1:35:12 Genius timing!
i was in stadium seats yelling Dee fense ....Dee fense! for Maru in game 5. This guys strong hold is best
this is madness
Serral bias in game 6 is impossible to hide
Foreigner bias for the entire tournament was impossible to hide haha
omg game 5 !!! WOW
I've never seen Serral this visibly irritated in mid series - he's usually totally stoic during games.
those ghost splits are inane
Rare to see so many amazing games with so little errors, ridiculous
OMG that Game5!!!
the EMP was so damn sick