SERRAL vs MARU: Grand Finals of the SC2 Titans! | TSL9 (Bo7 ZvT) - StarCraft 2
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- Subscribe to PiG Casts! đ· Serral (Zerg) faced off against Maru (Terran) in a GOAT battle for the TSL9 Grand Finals
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You're the best caster. No one else adds as much insight.
Yeah I love how heâll bring up past tournaments from like 5 years ago, or random conversations heâs had with the players. It really goes to show the dedication and love he has for the genre eh
@@Contriteone-.- thnx so much mate
thnx so much lance
Tastosis and pig are the only casters Iâll watch for sc2. Some of the best casters out there for any game. Very insightful but also hilarious
@@CommanderShiz you forgot about harstem bro
PiG is the Serral of casting. There are certainly other casters I also like, but there's just no contest. The analysis, historical context, humor, just everything. GOAT
What I like about your casting in the massive amount of explanations. It really helps understanding the game and thus increasing the fun of watching.
I thought Maru had pulled off the slickest move in that game when he repaired the Medivac that had been parasitic bombed, and then Serral says "Hold my beer", and EMP's all Maru's ghosts with that neural parasite. Well played, sir, well played.
Serral with the infestor EMP is just *chef's kiss*
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Love the passion you have for the game, the joy that came through when you were analysing the plays in this match-up was infectious! Great stuff.
The amount of strategic insights added is insane, this requires hard work and preparation! High quality casting đŻ
PiG's constant OCD selection of the mineral line workers though đ
hahaha old habits die hard
Always great to see Serral matches đ
he's looking so good lately
Nice video! Loved the random beatboxing at 42:24
interesting how the game3 analysis by PiG was so different than Lowko's video even though they are both looking at the exact same game. Pig favored Maru alot more but to Lowko it was clear Serral was in control the whole game and just overwhelming maru
32:16 This is the third time I watch someone cast this game on youtube, but the others also failed to realise what Serral did there in time. So itÂŽs not just PiG.
harstem saw it
I wonder how often this game was uploaded on youtube. Well I guess a final with Serral and Maru is destined to be popular.
Gotta love the boomer Aliens reference that kids will never get.
Kids these days don't even know that Twitch was Created for SC2 lol.
Starcraft is basically just a story about how Aliens and Humans have to drive back the inevitably all-consuming swarm of bugs.
That Maru run through the lower bracket was epic
yeah that was a rollercoaster! Always love when someone gets upset early on and fights there way back through. Serral at HSC was awesome too
Great Series, Great Cast!
The only thing i like more than seeing a Terran struggle is a prime rare steak !
me too man lol
This puts the goat debate to bed.
When did time end
@@avo616 When J became the goat?
19:20 Such an early gg
Maru showing why he needs to considered one of the top 5 of his era!
He tested Serral a few times in this series.
37:58 - "...the SCV's realizing they've been working for the Wayland Corp..."
Lmao. Worst job ever. The workers on that mineral line that's been attacked like five times in a row
haha. remember WOL and HOTS days when maps were tiny and zergs were losing. Now maps are enormous and every game ends up at 200/200 and zergs are crushing. Makes me want to come back and play again.
Serral is crushing. Zergs as a whole arent doing particularly well.
Zerg is not crushing, it's Serral that is crushing. Other Zerg get crushed when playing maru.
Zerg have never not dominated each era of the game.
@@chinogambino9375 you obviously didn't notice early wings of liberty days.
@@aj2228 WOL ended in unstoppable Broodfestor and players like Life. I remember enough.
man, the way you comment the game is like reading it from a book! Incredible meta game understanding!
36:51 im just noting those 156 zerglings in production.
You're a really good caster.
no where to run, no where to hide! its game over man!!!! - i love the emotion in ur casts pig, cracks me up!!
Maru not gg-ing at 7 workers in game 1 was some 4d chess. Like trying to throw serral off of his game by disrespecting one of the greatest players of all time. Definitely greatest foreigner. It didnt matter in the end, but that was a solid move imho
51:41 maru fanboys no excuses please LOLđ€Łđ€Ł
2018 ABSOLUTEY begs to differ lmao, it did not matter how far serral was behind, he would pull a rabbit out of a hat every. Single. Time.
Great analysis as always.
GG
Serral, please just stop doing this, don't make it look so easy against Maru, think about his fanboys. The GOAT is just out of reach for the mortals.
Also, great cast once again. You are easily one of the best casters.
Crying Korean terran incoming in 3..2..
Thanks for the spoiler
LMAO not only his fanboys but terrans too. Zerg OP reEeEeEeE LOL those two fanbases are just full of balance whiners
â@@stevenclark9553 you are welcome.
@@brianabalos4878 zerg was indeed op back in 2018 2019. There is no denying about that. I ain't complaining about that now.
I really enjoy pigâs casting style
Finland here. Suomi tÀÀllÀ moi! I am Silver II in Starcraft II Ranked currently.
Midnight oil reference? Fuck it, have a like.
haha cheers mate
How good is the Midnight Oil reference!
GGs, and fantastic casts!
I've thought the Raven was a good investment for clearing creep, because the saved energy can go to mules, and terran needs the extra income early.
In theory it's amazing, but due to the raven becoming the priority unit in the group, it makes it harder to control all other units, such as the marines - since they'll have to press tab every time to stim. Which is why most of the terrans prefer using the scans
@@ChristianSandviknes if you have it in the same control group, which is a bad idea.
@@jefferyharper5720 You're entirely correct, but trying to micro yet another control group in the midst of a mid-game, when you ideally have 2-3 groups of army just makes it so that you lose the raven - which means you're back to the CCs.
@@jefferyharper5720 yes you can just make the raven follow the troups which is more ocnvenient as you control only the marine group
@@ChristianSandviknes except I'm taking early game, when scans have to be used to clear creep, not mid game. Stopping creep early is when it's more important. And that's also when income is important. 16 scvs on minerals early. 1 mule is almost 33% more income, minus the Raven cost.
The real drawback is facing a roach all in like game 1, but you just cancel the Raven, because you won't be going after creep anyway, and other units are better for that.
Narrator: Player goes for it... players always like to lock on his opponent and beat them in the front... player taps out.
Serral is so adaptive and original...
Oof serral is just way too good for this world. I think Maru is amazing but serral is just on a complete path of destruction lately.
You mean Zerg is, give him Terran and see how well he does
@@kanemcdougall8337 Ofc, zerg is too much for Terran and also Terran must revamped the barracks reload or the unit marine!
@@kanemcdougall8337 why dont Everybody play zerg? Cause its prety balanced. Stop making excuses
Regarding color choice, most people play with color blind mode on, I would think?
Clem with better multi tasking and micro than maru? Uh... what? Did I just hear that sentence?
I was thinking the same thing XD
I kinda expected the result with the most recent NERFs specially to the widow mine. I used to punish Aggro Ling Bane players with rushed Armory mines. But because those things are now slower to burrow and they don't have the range of Lurkers (who also became slower to burrow but because of their range, it compensates for that burrow nerf), the strategies that makes Ling-Bane and Mutaling risky is not really as viable as it used to be. There was a time when I aggro Zerg with mines, now I can only do it when I feel that the Zerg player is bad. Even players that I used to own with aggro mine strategies, now I am forced to turtle all the time. Seriously that Terran Nerf forced almost every high level Terran players to be defensive, that's why super aggro Terran players like Clem who were beating almost every Zerg players a couple of months ago have been defensive (which he is not that good at). Having the fastest eco, expansion, and recruitment in the game, and then the tools utilized by Terran players to punish hyper aggressiveness getting nerfed every time Blizzard decides to patch the game. Having all those advantages, that's not RTS. No wonder Zerg players have been super successful in recent tournaments lately. Heck, even Protoss can now use Gateways to out early aggro the Terrans, it used to be just Phoenixes. The Terran turtle being the only viable strategy against high level Zerg and Protoss players forced me to play more Zerg recently. This is coming from a Protoss main btw.
maps are also enormous now
my favorite caster by far
thnx Tucker
starcraft BW n00b here... does a none upgraded ling beat a none upgraded marine in sc2?
zerg is overpowered
you sound like a super smart dude.
Serral trolling hard on second game he had already won
Terran vs Zerg = Insane Macro Vs 2 clicks
terran mec libs+seige tanks+fortresses vs Zerg = automatic defence vs insane clicks lol
@@Jimmy-pp6fo over the past 12 years the world championships have almost always been won by zerg, rarely protoss, never terran. There is a balance problem.
Zerg is actually the weakest. Because of this, zerg players tend to gather to study strategies. Which makes our pros extremely good.
@@residencialitalince8154 we see zerg pro(Reynor,Scarlet) plays in other races but no Protoss or terrans dares to play zerg
@@residencialitalince8154 I knew a 5.5k mmr terran grandmaster and he said zerg is just extremely underpowered
Tell me you are a Serral fan without telling me you are a Serral fan: Is Maru going to keep going for the same build?! :)
Hey lit!
Is Serral really that good or are the zergs clearly unbalanced?
Serral's just a beast right now. Maru's done VERY well vs reynor, rogue and Dark recently
Is it IMBA
This series shows kinda why I'll never really be a Serral fan. As good as he is, the dude has no heart to fight on against all odds. He consistently snap-quits games where he still has a decent fighting chance, reminiscent of a whiny brat who doesn't get his way throwing a tantrum. All the skill in the world doesn't give someone the heart of a champion. Someone like Oliveira for example - despite being a much less skilled player - showed massive heart in Katowice 2023. And that was enough to take it all the way and win the world champ title against not one but many otherwise-better players. Serral could learn a thing or two from him.
I thought you already did this one?
might have been a different commentator you saw - or one of their previous run ins. This was the TSL 9 Finals
Han & Horner vs. Abathur.
I like the fact that in videos involving winning terrans who does camping with ghosts oneshotting every Zerg unit ( even ultralisks ) noone complains.
But when the strongest sc2 player in the world beats Maru it's because zergs are to be nerfed lol.
bro people complain about ghosts *all the time* like....*constantly*. Even Terrans complain about how much they have to rely on Ghosts in TvZ. I think Pig even mentions it in this series for a second lol. The reason you don't hear about it as much as people wanting Zerg nerfs is because they've literally won almost everything this year. 5 out of 9 Premier event in 2022 have been won by one of Dark, Reynor, Rogue or Serral. HerO managed 1 GSL win, Maru and Clem won a tourney each early on in the year as well as Zest. Many of the more recent Tournaments have been won by Zerg players as well. Over half of all Major events in 2022 have *also* been won by Zergs.
I'm not even saying there is any imbalance, it's just very lopsided in terms of which players are at their best right now, and they almost all happen to play Zerg. Anytime that happens people are gonna balance whine just because a single race appears to be dominating regardless of what the actual reason is.
What if maru will use the protoss race instead maybe serral will be beaten when maru use protoss I guessed!?
Where did game 1 go?
Serral won the upper bracket finals so he got to start the Grand Finals up 1-0
How come the game starts with 1-0?
My Hero: Maru!!!
Is this video old ?or not ?
How to mute caster?
Are they the two best I t he world right now?
yes
Serral should come to gsl
I hope he does! Would be great to see, I think he's very good in his preparation these days, his planning of a series is very advanced
Crearly there is a balance issue here
Damn, after watching all those games from PiG where he gets rushed, and comes back from a huge disadvantage, I can't help but blame Serral for leaving FAR TOO EARLY in the 3rd game. Over double the workers and won't even bother to give up a base to mass ling bane behind is so lazy! Epic series nonetheless
Great casting. Terran had solid defensive positions and Maru controlled the army to the best a Terran can, but endless waves of a-moving ling/bane still overwhelm - I don't believe that's how an RTS game should work
Tell that to Grant during the civil war. All he did was a-move soldiers into entrenched southern positions and the north won the civil war.
Weyland or Weyland-Yutani.
Iâve played Terran for about 2500 ladder games and still donât know how to play the Damn game. And yes Iâve watched all of pics bronze to GM videos. Zerg is totally imbalanced. I donât fgi
amazing match to watch :) epic shit
Sins of solar empire 2 will replace this game
ZERG is way OP. Roughly 50% tournament (Premier, Global) top prizes have all gone to zergs during past 2-3 years according to SC2 Liquipedia.
Serral is OP. Fixed it.
As the first guy mentioned it, Serral here is the main problem not Zerg
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Serral is Federer of SC2! So glad he didn't make the same mistake as his brother to get a degree just to get paid on a salary. Serral on the other hand can retire early and go study/relax as he please
Helps when zerg is broken as shit, Maru has to play 3 times harder to win just to over come broken factions BS
Itâs getting kind of boring when Serral plays against Terran. He makes Zerg so imbalanced
Yeah Serral seems to have Maru's number. He's been really clever with adjustmens in his play vs each opponent lately as well. Feels like he plays a very different game to counter Clem or Cure. Fantastic adaptability
@@PiGCasts You love to see it. Imo Serral has kept the public interest for the game alive these last years, outside Korea. It seems not much new blood coming into the game, but I'll cherish the memories if SC2 goes belly up.
Zerg is OP. Maru and Serral are the Best on her race but, Maru loose because the avantage of the number of Zerg is more efficient. Look game 3 and 4. Maru had a very good défense but Maru loose everything so quickly and Serral reborn in a instant. Its a Joke. For à Terran, its impossible to win a game. Terran had more désavantage. Maru and Serral are to god player but Terran Suck. Prouf in this games.
Ok Yannick maintenant passe gold et reviens faire l'expert
Best terran vs one of the best zergs of all time.
Unimpressed with Maru's play this series, the lack of walling is quite sad.
bro Maru is so good at tis game.. serral is quite lucky Maru needs to grind all the other zergs showing his game while Serral can hide his ZvT because there is simply no other terran rigth now.. and Maru despite all of this still is able to play out of this world
Nobody is stopping you from playing Terran on EU and make Serral reveal his game. That IF you're lucky enough to play against him.
Plz nerf banelings
Serral gg out of game 2 because he was feeling bad for maru, can only stomp someone into the ground so many times
los zerg deberĂan ser Rebalanceados, son muy rapidos y los zerlings hacen mucho daño para su costo y facilidad de produccion, tienen mucha ventaja en ese sentido de juego rapidos, todos los ganos de la misma manera zerral.
Great in depth commentary BUT having no game music or barely any game sounds makes it very dull to watch. I think you will increase viewer count and engagement if you dial in the sound settings - Want to see more from you!
too much advertising
hateful serral
Spoiler, but not really spoiler...
Serral still wins.
But it's Serral vs. maru, there's over 80% probability that Serral winsđ€·ââ
Serral has 60% winrate vs maru so... no. Mathematically
zvt meta sucks. I hope they change the maps, so it becomes more enjoyable to play.
The game is unbalanced. There is no way the Terans are 100% on equal footing with the Zerg. Sadly, only like for like factions are fair.....but not as entertaining.
Blizzard nerfed Terran early aggression too much. Protoss has better early aggression, and Zerg has the better long game. Either way, I'm kinda not caring too much about high level SC2, such a stale game and meta at this point. I like lower level games, though.
lol
why gg g3 serral
A 4-0 would have felt bad. He may also wanted to play more.
How tf are ghosts even a thing?
few years later . still noone wants to admit Zerg is just broken. not even fun to watch games an hasn't been for quite awhile. Terran players have to play like gods to win anything. Zerg still just mass ling bane an still obliterating with Roach ravager rush's.