SERRAL vs MARU Battle for Goat Supremacy | KOB Bo7 Grand Finals (TvZ)

all right it's time the grand finals best of seven match between the two goat contenders the two people whose names come up more often than not when people talk about who's the greatest of all time the two players that we don't get to see play nearly enough it's several in the top left representing nc sports and his opponent maru in the bottom right a taran who looks to have the best form in the world right now he defeated and crushed and destroyed people in the season finals did maru maru won asus rock maru has been on an absolute tear and we've never we've never questioned that mahru's the greatest gsl player of all time with how consistent and how many times he's won there are so many times he has done so well in gsl but there are so many times he has flopped in international events whether it be online or online oh he's jet lagged oh he's tired oh he doesn't have as much planning it's a weekend on there's been excuses made for him it's time for maru to say you people making excuses for me i'm the best taran in the world i don't need you to make excuses and in the last few months he has been taking that performance out to the big big stage he's been saying dude i'm gonna i'm gonna smash everybody in these big online cups rogue get slapped down don't get slapped down cereal cyril raynor you guys can't stand stand up to me trap get out of here you suck which is kind of obviously said tongue-in-cheek because all those players are literal gods but maru has been on a tear and if he can defeat cyril here in this best of seven grand final then that will be absolutely massive so this is a really cool chance for for maruti cement his legacy but i mean cyril it's cereal and uh he also beat maru in the group stage some of you may have seen us cast that one uh it was the best of three two to one victory for several and the crazy thing for me was that on this map especially cyril just broke in with hydraling bane viper i was like is he gonna go brood lords is he gonna use lurkers don't think lurkers are that good versus maru because he's so good at defending him with ghosts and then he literally just killed him like he's like oh i don't care man i'm just gonna i'm gonna bop the nerd i'm gonna i'm gonna just bop a nerd okay i'm just gonna roll over you with big hydra-ling bane you can't stop it you're too spread out on this map the spaces are too wide open and so i do wonder whose map pick this was because there's an argument for the terran picking this map and saying hey it's a short rush distance i can get you killed in the early game sharp pushes mahru showed in the quarter finals versus raynor a very good tank bunker push on the high ground but oh he gets a drone kill that's a good start does lose his reaper for it though so i think cyril's okay with that trade needle to the face tough way to go that's going to be a two on one opening for maru so two barracks into a factory a star port he's gonna have stim and then two medevacs coming out at a time always start the stim before the star port as the little tidbit we see noobs mess up all the time with this build order myself included so anyway like i said guys cyril's made an adjustment um against raynor he tank pushed up here and built bunkers up here and it's such an unengageable position because there's just you put tanks up against the ledge you build a bunker here they can't get in and and reynold basically died from that push now cereal has immediately gone for the third in a safer location does he go even further and take a fourth down here that would be crazy maybe he does the double hatch a lot of people rather than building the macro hatch they'll go fourth base and fifth base raynor i mean cyril zerg player sorry they all look the same i'm a little racist uh roach warren is is is is coming in and this is a ravager wait no no link speed he is still droning he's playing pure roach i was doing this the other day pure roach oh this is sick he's gonna play a roach ravager aggressive style no ling speed no commitment to zerglings past a few spotters oh oh no cyril oh no he has five drones following another drone i don't know how long they were idle for but that's that's oh that's messy bit of a mistake there so we got stem almost finished double medevacs on the way as well five queens are out so you don't want to go too high on queens but keep in mind if he loses one or two cyril has almost no ante here so he's really got to be in position to shut down these moves now seeing no hellions yet i think cyril can assume oh yep gotta watch out for two one one that'll hit me about 5 20. so you can see he's building three roaches seven roaches you want to go up to at least 10 roaches to defend a double marine attack like this and he even sees it coming and gets the zergling out deserving taunting he's like you guys suck you suck the marine injects some drugs and decides to chase that zergling down sarah's like okay come and get me come and get me you don't want to you don't want to weaken your push do you oh cyril tracking this perfectly he's got eight roaches out he's building five more apparently when you're playing against maru you take no chance there's 13 roaches to be 100 safe he's got two queens in the main and the roaches are kind of here ready to rejoin in the main if he picks up and drops there but otherwise it's just roaches gonna defend on the ground i'm gonna get rid of some of the creep you don't want to lose too many creep tumors because remember your queen counts kind of low he immediately pulls back up queens say no maru oh my god if he loses that that would be huge oh i actually think the stutter step was a slight mistake there from cyril maybe could have just kept attacking the whole time maureen widowman dropped there coming in double evo chamber down about five minutes 30 here just after that i'm gonna get that third base saturated roach speed on the way a very important upgrade gonna allow the roaches to keep up with those marines and behind this we've got one one and tanks now if maru's learnt anything from years of me shouting at him losing games and throwing matches versus rogue is he should take this third base now why should he take that third base because then he's got more of a choke point coming into it there and here and he can he can set up his defenses in this one kind of central area now i say that and i'm looking at it and i'm like should he though i mean both bases kind of suck on this map ugh i don't even know i'm not even sure normally i'm pretty sure about don't take the front third take the one on in in a straight line on this map it's not the most defended does get one drone with the widowmine but acute damage there bit of an annoyance cyril's got a much bigger supply right now though and he is going to take the front third like he always does now you could argue that a tank up here covers a fair amount as long as you don't build depots down there so there's two mistakes that maru usually makes verse roach players which i always criticize him for number one he takes all of his marines and tanks attacks across the map gets killed by roche ravager and throws the game because roach ravager isn't early to mid game composition it's very good if you attack into it whereas if you sit behind a wall keep your tank safe you'll never lose to it so he the problem the other the other problem he makes is he's oh he's walled in his base his suvs can't get down there bit of a mistake for him um finally he realizes that he should lower that deeper as well is don't build depots normally he builds heaps of depots at his third to reinforce that position to make it harder for the zerg to attack problem is as the terran that means if your position gets broken here even once you lose your supply block like hell now i think the one thing that's working for him is i don't think cyril wants to commit to the attack because he has an early infestation pit no i think he kind of has to anyway but yeah maru is making all the mistakes that i normally criticize him for and he's such a good player he could still win but normally you want to keep your tanks really safe really far back if possible and if you lose those tanks even one time you might just die now he's setting up for a bit of a marine flank on the road travis oh i don't like this attack angle for cerro but maybe maybe the tanks are just exposed enough that it's fine he gets rid of one tank loses a bunch of marines there and his depots in the open and predictably mark can can someone who speaks korean please message maru and tell him to stop making this exact mistake he does he knew exactly what was happening and it's the exact same reason why maru isn't 16-0 vs rogue in grand finals which he should be and yet he loses to rogue a lot when he shouldn't and it's because he always takes the front base and up and it's such a predictable mistake if he kept his tanks on the high ground from the beginning didn't build the depots down there he'd be fine here but it's all about protecting your tanks protecting your buyer and getting a critical mass you do not want to fight at this stage you want to lift your third pull back your workers as long as you survive this army scales like crap for several and i don't know why maru is so insistent on taking the more exposed third out in the open and throwing his tanks away on the low ground now in this case he only lost one tank and cyril does take a big volley there cyril's trying to chip away the units but that was a bad fight for sarah good one for maru now cyril has a fourth up he needs to take a fifth and he needs gases so because cerro spent so much gas on roach ravager he's playing that i'm not going to let you take a third base style but he needs a fifth base to get gasses up because his viper lurker transition is gonna be very gas heavy and that's something which cyril has not prepared too well for his fourth base gas only now getting up and pretty big uh drop coming down he's gonna pull sterile out of position cyril as long as he splits just some units to do this he can still deny this now mario is going to move his whole army down which does expose himself to losing it again cyril should come from the top angle though not from this ramp and this choke point a little tight here maru though he's undefended right now but he's gonna flank with the bio is this a crazy move for maru i think it is but it just might pay off as he comes back but two more siege tanks have gone down and i think maru knows he needs the third base up but his tank's stuck on the high ground he's going to siege that up there these tanks get taken out he's in trouble he's got to pull the suvs if he can protect the tanks he could still get back in this game one tank falls no it doesn't messed up files for cyril and cyril has to fall back a bad fight for cerro he gets only one tank 11 suvs in some of the bio he's got to keep those ravages alive and transition on to the next wave so a great fight there for maru just that tail end of it but uh yeah definitely very dangerous here now i only rant about this this much because i've ranted about it so many times before i'll stop the fact that he survived is good if it was rogue he'd be dead cyril not quite the same killer instinct of rogue i think also not as greedy and getting towards his push timings but zero's still in a dominating position he's gonna try and keep trading here files on the tank take it down doesn't quite get the medevacs i thought he might clip those there but now okay more tanks are gonna defend this command center roach ravager comes in another tank will go forward he's shoving in another tank goes down the biles are landing he gets eight more suvs i mean this feels like cereal can just trade like this for days he's got vipers as well and it's uh it's still gonna be a win here for cereal cyril's very good at dancing on the edge of range and utilizing his bio over and over again he doesn't stand and fight when he's files on cooldown he just looks for the kills and oh he doesn't quite get the command set up master fair very good for maru but he is still dead and sterile he's gonna take a very nice game on victory here notice how he pulls back when it's only ravages because he doesn't want to lose his expensive units starting plus three carapace now he's gonna gather energy with those vipers and the creep is denying his base from landing oh maru is in dick town right now man maru is in dick town now keep in mind guys the mistakes i've been pointing out from maru are the exact same mistakes clem makes every game in the same scenario one day one of them is actually gonna tell me i'm wrong and explain why and um yeah i'm gonna then point to their win record when they play the front third and move their tanks to the low ground and laugh at them ah pigs stop being so judgmental and cocky marrows are good guys don't get me wrong even if murray loses this game which he absolutely should from here he's still a god and he will fight back in the next games this is not something cyril will repeat in this series maybe he'll try roche ravager one more game but i doubt it i think this is special for this map because there's big wide open areas the bases are naturally exposed even if he takes the other third and it's a bit of a surprise tactic now i would argue maru spotted this very early when there was no link speed and roaches defending so it wasn't the most surprising but it was a surprising that maru wasn't expecting it going into the map so he wasn't able to plan for it before then now he does have a great spready of tanks um where's the vipers where are they the vipers have not really i mean he's going back to get more energy i'd like to see some more of ducks coming in some more trading a fourth commandant is getting up several i've seen him actually against clem lose games where he didn't realize the fourth base was up in this exact same scenario and cyril's still on mass road ravager yeah he's adding zerglings to take the tank shots he's adding lurkers in there but there's absolutely a chance for mario to get back in this game and i'm telling you it would be a godlike comeback to come back from here against cerro would be absolutely bonkers but maru is known for locking down his and surviving when he has no business surviving look at that oh cyril little slow to respond there it does pull it home okay we got some of ducks coming in oh i like the vikings they're gonna they're gonna try and kill that viper if he doesn't fly back he's gonna lose it vikings not realizing it's stopped there now the drop coming in not finding anything spore zoning that out he does have 10 gases up to several but maru actually has survived he's weathered the storm he's got mass tank fire out he needs to really focus on his bio production i think right now but adding the vikings just as a sort of in-between vipers can abduct vikings and shoot them down if he has enough hydras but he didn't have any hydras he's only building them now and hail mary bile's not going to connect he's going to attack the top this could be big could be or it could be a throwaway of units i don't think he can just yolo it yeah he could maybe siege it but liberator says no and look at that lurker on the high ground oh i like that lurker that's a real nice lurker maru can take it down with a tank and a scan does take four tank shots three tank shots to kill a lurker big army running down here for cereal but he's kind of disarray it's just a handful of units and cereal not quite finding the the the business end of the stick here it feels like he's taking a bit too much time he's adding bailings he's swapping into ling bay and hydra i don't know if i can get behind this i feel like cyril is giving up all the momentum he gained in the early game and that crazy comeback i was talking about might just happen it could absolutely happen that lurker does get taken out there ghosts are on the way he's adding more barracks now he's gonna get a few more tech labs for more ghost marauder production ah this is actually a situation where cyril's got to get rid of these ravages and roaches these are units that he's sitting on right now this top base is barely defended but he hasn't been able to bust it he really needs to get his momentum cyril's taking way too long in this game nice abduct nice blinding cloud planetary and of course only able to shoot in melee range without blinding cloud an accidental unburrow i think there blinding cloud would be nice here on this bio and i think that should be a dead base the blinding clouds the planetary fortress and you can see with the spines coming out the back of the planetary you can't repair it now the lurkers could force him to back off the ravages are gonna come in does bile down one of those siege tanks pulls back the lurk as he leaves one behind the base there's a bit of a harassment just to be a nuisance to clean up and maru is still broken it looks like finally cyril finds the finishing blow there so uh very nicely done i think he's gonna gonna stabilize and and just kind of get everything out he's got a sixth base on the way yeah cheryl will be able to close this but uh i've got it i've got to be critical guys so so the two things and we've seen this going for years now i've analyzed it so many times in the last few years every time maru and rogue play since i think 2018 or 2017 katowice and a few gsl run-ins um as well as raynor's done it to climb a few times and it's kind of the same story um mass roach ravager is it's an all-in timing attack whereas the terran you just need to be ready to lift your third pull back your suvs and if you do that they actually can't trade with you um because if they run up your natural ramp they get they get blitzed and once you get like six tanks together with bio and two two the zerg just can't take efficient fights um it's just about growing your army big enough but when you're fighting small trades against roach ravager roach ravager does just fine and at this point cyril just wants to throw these units away the fact he's getting kills for it he is more than happy with he's like holy i'm actually killing stuff i honestly just want to free up supply so i can build hydra ling bane lurker um that's that's the better composition right now i don't want these clunky roaches and ravages that chew up supply good tank spready that's a big spread of your tanks the viper is a bit far behind disjointed attack here from cerro does he have the numbers gets a parasitic bomb on top of the vikings and he gets one joint before the second viper goes down he's just got too much maru overwhelmed in game one just taking that front third and not reacting to his scouting information at all cyril gets an easy map one victory a great start to the series for the finn in the bottom left it's several uh not going to be playing that style again might play mutiling bane and this is a map where maru has favored three command center in the past we'll see if he goes for it again and he actually brought out the raven on this map versus raynor didn't he so raven a good choice but such a big map man and i don't know i feel like cyril's probably gonna play lurker lingbane lingbane hydra ad lurkers in the hive maybe pureling bane hydra since it served him so well i i don't know i mentioned muters a few times but i'm thinking about how cyril's been playing recently and i'm like nah he'll play hydra's i think we'll see what happens we were just doing some maths in in in the break between games on the lurker shots on the live stream guys and uh people have pointed out that uh if you have plus three armor on lurkers they have four armor in total and they've claimed that they survive three shots from the siege tank so if you've got no vehicle upgrades on a siege tank and they have plus three carapace it'll take four shots but otherwise that's a pretty that's almost never gonna happen if you're building if you're building tanks you'll have a plus one so basically tanks are in all realistic scenarios tank's always three shot lurkers no matter what but uh it's it's always interesting to look at those numbers and see how they kind of stack up of course it's still worth getting um tank upgrades anyway no matter what simply because they do splash damage which kind of goes down in decreasing rings most splash damage in starcraft will have a close ring that does maximum damage another ring that does so it's usually like main damage on the target let's say you hit this scv and then just around it 50 and just beyond that 25 something like that and obviously you can only take damage from one ring so if you're in the middle you just take the full from the direct or the 50 and then if you're on just barely getting clipped by take the 25 it's usually something like that i don't know the exact numbers for each unit but i know that's how it works with like archon splash as well obviously storm flat damage fungal flat damage those sort of aoe abilities the disrupter i think the widow mine might have flat splash damage as well because i'm pretty sure that's uniform but tanks and archons and that sort of stuff it's got a bit of a decreasing radius i'm not sure if ultra lists have that or not either zergling surprise from cyril and maru caught without going for the scv scout oh this is a big problem for him man he's going to take a whole lot of lost mining time not to mention this and this is already a win for sarah he's going to get that scv potentially oh he's going for the marine now oh oh good micro by maru if you could get this suv that would be cool but he's not going to just get some damage on it but that's still great damage six zerglings and guess what his is marine or reaper sorry hasn't been able to deny your creep you can now just send a drone out take the third base for free uh you've been droning behind it you didn't need to build any defensive zerglings right because all your zorgin's got to be offensive if you think about it a lot of the time zog built four or six circlings just to defend the reaper in this case you actually got to kill some stuff i think it was two s cvs it was only one but i think the mining time makes it more than worth it it's a nice 16 pool opening for cyril get a bit of momentum here in game two and i feel like cyril's planning and series has really stepped up a notch in the last couple of years gets himself these advantages a lot maru is going for three command center into second barracks but that build order will be a bit messed up with all the mining time so it's not gonna be hitting a super crisp like five minutes 45 or 550 double barracks marine stem timing especially since he's building more hellions i would expect maru to not be hitting with double medevac probably until about 6 20 in this game we'll see what happens it's a big map but uh we'll see exactly how he transitions forwards from that reaper hellion just gonna come around look for some creep trimmers oh cyril he didn't have an overlord over here so he's got an overlord over here earlier than he really needs it just a little odd it does clean up the reaper at least but loses two creep tumors there so very good snipes i think for a reaper not too bad overlord flies through the main sees literally everything and gets out the back of the base marines don't oh they'll get it just barely it's gonna die just barely oh 12 hit points he was three hits two hits from death oh what can i say guys i got the caster curse today i am calling everything wrong but uh yeah that's really good for cerro man sarah's happy 46 drones versus 35 suvs he's scouting around the map still lacks an overlord over on this right side but as his creep spreads out he should be alright with that sees the hellions are up on the left side of the map double engineering bay goes down and we are going to see the starboard swap over momentarily just trying to make your opponent uncomfortable there's the goal with the italians look for creep tumors make it so your opponent has to put some attention towards them pick off some snipes where you can and that bailey nest does go down as well as the quick layer so no fast upgrades for cereal cereal could turn this into a muted build he's already got four gases i would definitely say this to me this looks like a mutalist build with how fast those gasses went down and he's moving out to take a fourth base up here now you can see this drone just working its way over there pros sends that ahead of time has 300 minerals the second it gets there five minute 34th base and comes back through with this overlord we'll see that there's going to be tanks being produced so cereal getting some very useful scouting those marines do set takes they take some drugs they take that overlord down this overlord he's gonna get spotted hides on the pillar but the medevac is gonna spot it double evo chamber goes down no spire just yet interesting no no gases either so he is just gonna play hydraling bane or lurker ling bane something like that most likely as this marine squad moves down the right side of the map i said about 6 20 he would probably hit well he's actually gone with just 12 marines so he's still hitting 6 10 not a great timing but you know he hunted an overlord on the way across the map not too bad barely stop that creep tumor from spreading but he doesn't get that creep tumor so that's a problem for him and look at that transfuse saves the overlord for cereal and he keeps the creep tumor at the front if he got that one he could have stopped that tumor from spreading because it kind of this the tumor that spreads like this one is the active tumor you can see it's got these blue bubbles on it it needs to kind of channel the other creep tumor so if you kill this any time before that finishes they'll both die so just a good little good little tip obviously killing that doesn't kill that but killing this does kill that just a cute little way of thinking of it and uh because he doesn't get that the creep spread's very good for cyril here fourth and fifth barracks coming down at the front second factory in the main armory on the way as well very nicely timed out here for maru maru always thinking about the late game as aspire does come down for cerro but super late so compared to when he could have had it so cyril's basically saying i will play a murderling bane macro game but it's more of let's have a solid economy let's defend with link bain the mutes are coming in as more of an afterthought in this particular game his his work account sucks um does cyril's but he's got a lot of army that's that's kind of what he's done here he said look i'll just dominate the map you can't really fight me i've got plenty of units to defend and i'll just spread creep like crazy using that map dominance but the downside is it's a giant map maru's got a fourth commence and a halfway done and he's got more workers than you so this is i would say a little bit slow on the drones for cyril now if he cleans up all these marines and medevacs with the muters awesome well worth it then he can drone 20 drones onto that fourth base secure a fifth base and he's roaring he's got that zerg econ right now though we're seeing amaru that is simply ahead on the macro he's going three more barracks up to eight barracks yeah he's not making big in roads on the creek but at least he's keeping cyril busy it's just chipping away he's killed a queen or two here or there you can see that commute is now gonna hunt him down and oh mario with the jukes he does duke that one away very cute very very cute and he's gonna kill a meter or two is he not transfused too good and that queen will finish that medevac off mute as well as well uh can you get can you get a mirror no nice try by amaru though got the other medavax home during that kept his opponent busy his 2-2 50 seconds underway cerro has not started his 2-2 he's up to 14 about to be 15 meters plus one upgrades are on the way but he's got to start the upgrades plus two carapace does kick in he's taking an extra gas so he's gonna go up to seven gases right now he's got a fifth base on the way as well 80 drones he's got a good economy but cyril playing so heavy on the units i if i were in sarah's shoes i'd feel a bit of urgency about denying this fourth base i'd be like man let's roll some bling bang in here and then come in here and try to bust the planetary now we can see maru's ready for that he's pretty well set up he could actually probably hold on against that sort of move and cyril's going to go in gets a widow mine uses a muted for it but that's fine gets another one he's gonna go for the big trade watch out for the widow mine right in the center of the zerglings oh that widow mine's slaughtered now yet it friendly fired a few marines much better though i think femaru than it was for cyril cyril just went for the big balls attack where he's like hey i'll just go in i'll take a hit but i'll kill all your as well didn't quite work out for him infestation pits on the way he's still only at 79 drones this is not a style where you can afford to be super wasteful that last attack sucked balls for several and notice that maru is showing a little bit of restraint in this game guys he knows these players are trying to just overwhelm him he's not investing in the iron bank he's saying upgrades unit production upgrades unit production turrets towers upgrades unit production maru is realizing that his opponent is going to try and swamp him and so because of that he's focusing on knuckling down the defense only slowly adding the command center so he's putting the commands and it's down as the lowest priority whereas normally maru when he's in a defensive stance and turtle up he tries to go mass command center but he's realized that there's a bit too much of a gap in his units normally when he does that where he skips some marines skips some marauders skip some mines so in this case he's kind of maxing out and then adding lots of turrets and only then going for the command centers and he's saying look i know i know cyril he's on middling bank he's gonna have to try and find a trade with me if i don't give him any good trades then then that's how i'm gonna get ahead rather than having mass orbital commands and i'm going to take awesome fights and already baiting cyril into some pretty nasty fights there the muters do pick off a few things in the bottom right but nothing too crazy either about to finish sarah will not not get caught just stuck in the mid game but his work account 90 drones now oh okay yeah yeah i'm i'm down with that work account cerro now has a real big boy economy but he does not have the bank remember has been a little ahead of him in that regard in terms of getting up the macro now three three is on the way for the terran not enough gas to start it for the zerg as he goes adrenal glands ultra cavern he'll have to come back and start the 3-3 in a little while marine drop thinking of reinforcing these turrets in the main and ling bane coming forward borrowed zerglings on all of the bases real nice he's got a borrowed zergling there zergling there circling borrowed in the middle of the map as well awesome play by cerro who's roaming the map with his muddling vane he wants to push mario home now does maru thrust the left side of the map it looks like he's just going to pull over to the right and try to play more defensive he's clearing a little bit of creep but he's basically vying for map control there are borrowed bailings out on this map he's got to watch out this is a big army of zerg and he's just finding little pieces of the terran but i think that might have been a manual detonation and an accidental one at that from cerro uh because that was a bit of a weird detonate on those banelings bane links on the right side he's looking for a run by he's not going to find anything get spotted has to pull back he's getting a nice around there guys they're going to go for it bailey's coming on in he's gonna hit those marines and rewarders maru is being so cautious any other terran i'd feel so bad for in this scenario because they're so surrounded and he's barely now getting a fifth base up up against the sixth space zerg but you know what it's maru i don't think it matters man i don't think it matters as long as he survives maru is shown he is the god of late game cyril is he a player who can deal with it will this composition ultra lingbane this is gonna be a i'm playing early late game i'm looking to overwhelm you with ultra lingbane and just just momentum and striking while the iron is hot but these widowmines spread everywhere does get a medevac doesn't quite finish the thor he gets another medevac there this giant spread across the map i don't know how you find this as several guys he needs ultras out he needs him out yesterday kite is blading done in 20 seconds three three on the way he does not have the anabolic synthesis upgrade on the way now what is that that's the ultralist movement speed he hasn't queued it up he does need to remember that that makes them have 10 faster movement speed off creep doesn't change them defensively on creek helps them attack off creep though muters find the widowmine rally delicious trades there for several three widowmines for free very important mass ling bane looking to defend this base but i think in this case the better part of valor is waiting for the ultras once he has three or four ultrasound they'll cleave the marauder and the thor front line down the ling bane can be more effective but he needs more ultras and more zerglings right now his muters are doing really well at intercepting maru's rally he's taken out a lot of these widow mines units moving up north they're going to try and handle him pushing him back on that side ling ultra coming forward he wants to fudge this army up but his three three is not done yet is this a bit of an anti-timing for cerro he's got the alters with tightness blading will it be enough he's down double upgrades the widow minds get a few shots off but a nice evacuate with the thor and maru says get out of here evacuate the left attack the right he's gonna get rid of two of cyril's hatcheries this one he already took out the middle one cyril's income's taking a dive oh okay ultras do pop on top of this i don't think there's much escape here but those mute is a little clumped up he does take out some of these medevacs and that means the thor should not be able to escape yeah they won't be able to get out of there this is gonna be a one-way trip for this army as those meters do take it down thor takes out another meter or two before it goes unit's lost tab looks totally fine for cerro losing these two hatcheries like i said loses him a bit of income momentum but he's still got half a base full base and that base could get some workers transferred at the moment a lot of drones long distance mining so his income will dip a bit maru's got a fifth up but how does maru defend the far left and the far right at the same time cyril the chad goes up the guts a crazy maneuver he's going to try and take out these liberators and i think he's got to pull back now yeah thought he might have caught maru to to spread on the flanks but doesn't really get it and oh snipes come down the ghost counts out seven ghosts and six ghosts building at a time personal cloaking for those ghosts being upgraded right now this is a very nice position for maru why because he's got how many orbitals four soon to be five six seven he's getting the iron bank up slowly and steadily he's learnt a lot of respect for cyril after that curious minds map where cyril swarmed him in the group stage he said okay i just need to always have an abundance of units i need to be very careful to not give you that opening ultralist movement speed coming in flyer armor for those mutes plus one range he's still building more muters i cannot agree with that i categorically cannot agree with you if you believe that building mutualists at the 16 minute mark is a good investment i do believe they are a defunct unit at this point in the game and you're going to need to show us some magic sarah now sarah already shows us some magic and gets three widowmines for free he says pig what was that you said they're not a good unit at this stage you're an idiot i am one of the best zergs in the world i will find awesome value these meters give me great flexibility i would argue though that 20 meters is 40 supply of units that aren't ling bane ultra smashing into both sides of the map at the same time and i think that's where his victory condition is is sniping off those expansions great spready great missile turrets guarding the liberators you just can't go in on that i think as cyril you've got maru committing to the center of the map maru is going to try to keep pressuring here and baiting you into this area and your job as cyril is to get a big army and just smash the right big army smash the left give up your middle base maru will not be able to push too deep from here he might be able to get this base but going any further than that's going to be very dangerous mass missile turret now they don't have the upgrades just yet but they are on the way both building armor and the extra range upgrades these muters fly in and they go man he's kind of prepared for this yeah maru gave massive respect to the murder run buys at this point it's actually massive massive respect now honestly maru is just creating spreadies that's his whole job you might be wondering what's so spready well in gymnastics that might be like doing the splits or some in starcraft that's spreading your out when everything naturally wants to clump up that ling bane attack on the right i was talking about just blow up the planetary cancel command center yeah good move i think this is well worth he's going to try to get some ghosties or some suvs as well not really going to get too much there remember guys it takes five bailings to kill a ghost even more than that maybe um we don't have any paintings on the map right now so i can't click on it i actually don't know how much damage a plus three baneling does i think it might only be 20 these days um well i'll i'll hover over that in a moment when these bangings finish morphing because they did get nerfed a few times and remember ghosts are not light units a lot of people think they are they are not light units they do not take those bonus to light damage there's going to be a big fight marauders trying to snipe off this base he's trying to bait him in it's 22 damage a shot up against the ghosts with three armor that indeed means it is six spain links to kill a single ghost now obviously if they're clumped up that can still be effective for the bailings but otherwise it's not particularly good it does take out a marauder but he's got it spread because the ghosts the muters a guy if they go in range of the ghost they die pop-pop one noodles does go down this base gets taken out and look at that guys he got a new planetary up on the right side i think cyril cannot be fighting into this not with his army composition not like this if he gets brood lord in fester he can do it but until then he needs to be hitting this base with massive bailings this base with massive paintings it's hard because there's liberators that are going to tax him for it but he's allowing maru to coalesce in the center and if you let ma amaru's just bloody flood of terran all get together in a big spready with turrets and libs and mines and ghosts you're gonna have a freaking bad fight it's gonna it's gonna be bad at the moment it's little drippy drops all over the map and that's what you've got to do is the zerg with a ling bane style it's not efficient in a big fight it's efficient in small fights all over the map using its mobility but if the terran can watch the fights can can micro them correctly you can have a hard time but if you get to planetary he could kill at least one of these command centers and there we go eight failings for one ghost and one marine not the best trade he's going to deny the base on the left side though should be able to get the command center um only 13 meters maybe maybe no more command center is floating over and this is where he's got to run back in with this ling bane again he's got to keep doing that over and over killing those commands and is huge if he can keep killing the muters pull back he lets the command center escape bailings vs marauder thor ghost equals the worst trade of all time ghosts want the snipes get out of there cyril cyril get out of there oh he does run it on the right side takes the widow mine hit the liberator is going to move over and try to protect this but he can still kill these suvs very well he can absolutely deny some of these building command centers but he's not microing it right now oh if you can get on those building command centers that would be huge and look at that he's going to kill the widow minds oh very nice he's going to get those widow minds that's a good trade but maru pushing on the left investors are here those ghosts slow those ghosts man he's got to give up these bases cyril cannot fight in these scenarios cyril he's got to be like water i keep talking about maru coalescing well right now cyril needs to funnel the out of this left side of the map he needs to literally pull the plug on these zerg bases get all the drones transferred to the right side of the map and when maru pushes there he needs to transfer him right back over here he needs to avoid front on fights right now does sarah and he's doing a pretty good job of it but he's now gonna hit this base as mario moves to the left and this base if he can hit those two bases in a moment that'll be big problem for him widowminds spread all over the map scouting what he's up to scans seeing everything he's doing right now as well maru has got five orbitals three planetaries he's trying to get more command centers up he is not at the iron bank yet but he's max and he's got a bigger bank than cyril and that's not something you want mahru's late game efficiency by your mind live ghost thor spreading across multiple screens the most giant of spreads how do you flank an army that covers half the map riddle me this come on comment section twitter how do you flank this army i always talk about you've got a terror knife you can't flank an army that covers half the map and that's the secret of mahru's control he just keeps his army spread so bloody far nothing's clumped up nothing's to there for the paintlings and then he microwaves it back individually in sections that's a good catch for cyril he does cut part of the army off but most of it survives he catches the pervert and fester there and that one does go down one sneaky little pervert infested burrowing in from beneath you it does its dirty fungals that's his game plan a lot of the time in the late game cyril's the best sneaky infested pervert he likes to pop up behind and drop the fungal flanky ghost take him out but it feels like he's taking so many economic hits it's gonna be hard for cyril to deal with this a couple of good widowmine hits there now he should be able to clean that one up he will be able to and he can pull his army back at these sensor towers plus the scans giving great vision now the meters have gone in the main and there's not that many of them left but they're getting awesome damage on the economy maru though still up at 63 suvs does he care maybe maybe not his command center is building everywhere right now mario is just trying to reinforce his trenches he realized if he can just get defenses everywhere planetaries turrets slips anything like this allows him to make these areas of the map just a pain for cyril to move into and yet again the marauder drop on the left side he's done it so many times cyril's like get the fudge out of here man that's so annoying those missile turrets with high sec auto tracking they have eight range and two armor they're so bloody effective and look at that he clears the ground army but he can't clear the libs up his his anti-air is on the wrong side of the map and it's about to step through a field filled with rakes ow steps on one smacks him in the face he says but he does ignore that field doesn't decide to clear it up for now he's too busy getting over here trying to defend the left side but maru's got him where he wants him maru's baiting him into a front-on fight we know this is a disaster for cyril cyril he thinks he can take this out but i don't know if he can the investors coming in not going to be able to get the investor the mute is actually take out the libs really efficiently but my god i thought he had enough feelings to chase the ghosts all the way home he makes them cloak and spread he kills like a ghost for 37 banelings one investor looking for the big unborrow he gets it he gets a big old fungal is it enough no it's not there's a ghost so many still getting out of there he's gonna kill a few more of these liberators man i don't know actually he does kill a lot of maru's stuff but dude so many ghosts surviving in the red and the medevacs are going to be able to heal those up this is still so close this is still so goddamn close maru taking a base on the left right now he's trying to take this high ground he knows if he can cement this position he wins the game he's launching a nuke and that baits serel in and he snipes some of the muters now that is gonna go down the newt gets cancelled the links are gonna get on top i think maru might have overextended maybe a lot of the ghosts are going down cyril is low on cash right now he does not have a lot of uh he doesn't have a lot of money available he's got a handful of mutes and corrupters but he's chased a bit too far he gets rid of the planetary though should be able to kill that command center very nice moves by several and he's got to keep the movement going there's a command center sitting out here like a bloody sore thumb uh command center there she's trying to build suvs right now eight scvs building at a time is maru maru realizing his economy is not as robust as he would like and this is still a nasty position for both sides cyril keeping that units last time uh surprisingly close here for an ultra ling bane muter style i love that he's added the corrupters at this point but it also means he's got a crazy number of units in the air and at this point i think maru you stopped building liberators for a little bit um because they're not that useful you've already forced it a lot of kind of units in the corrupted muter out of your opponent just keep these few liberators bait him in use your snipes once you kill the muta corrupter then start rebuilding libs cereal's going to come on in here on the left side one big swarm but i don't know about attack attacking this angle he gets rid of the limbs pretty well but there's even a tank in a corner the libs are sieged on the base does he have enough lingvane ultra the ghosts are sniping the ultras while links are on top of them i cannot believe some of those snipes got off there the tank in the corner sergeant chad hammer himself 27 kills and does go down now links can go in there i'd like to see bailings actually blow those up as well cyril realizes he's got to keep his units together to chase the ghost i can't believe he's letting mario mind that of course he realizes the frontal fight might decide the game queen's pushing back widow minds on the right side one little burrow boy says eat a dick terran player and have fun long distance mining with those mules but cyril if he can deny this base and deny this base he can still win this game because there's almost no minerals left four mineral patches there four mineral patches there if you can deny these bases you're good widowmine drop though kills 12 workers he's got a widow mine there denying this bottom right base that cereal so desperately needs cereal is out of cash he's low on workers lings will deny this but even just one round of mules there just bought enough to buy another 30 marines he's got seven orbitals and this is where the iron bank wins if the zerg gets in a medium economy situation and the terran still has the iron bank and can secure a base the terran says hey buddy do you like my income it's just getting started watch that number go up cyril i know you can't see it but you can guess because you know i have an orbital that i got the iron bank that i only need to hold on to one base to mine 4 000 minerals a minute that's right that's 80 marines a minute that i'm harvesting 80 marines cyril's there like i can build 30 zerglings a minute he's got to bust this base if he breaks it he can still win but cyril is down on army supply if he can get the ghost i think he got a nice fungal with the flank there but god the ghost stutter step his ghosts just never die maru's ghosts just never die every single one it's like he literally when he took them to maru's go school he showed them every sean bean death scene in every movie ever and he said don't do this and the ghosts were like oh okay now apparently after watching it uh enough of those they they did actually take on one mannerism of a sean being death scene which is an overly dramatic groan but you know it is what it is most of the time they're not dying they're wriggling away from the ling beans around and they're just not dying they get damaged they don't die obviously yeah 22 ghosts have died pig what are you talking about he's lost eight ultras 46 meters 170 pains and 823 zerglings put it in perspective guys i'd trade 22 ghosts for that any day any day and now maru's got a base there he's got this they're both fresh bases yes this is the worst base on the map for those who don't know one gas and six minerals they were like hey we were thinking of putting a base in one of the most exposed positions in the corner of the map we're also only going to give you less minerals and gas than normal so this is the base that you take and you're like ah i don't really want it but i guess i'll take it you know it's uh it's it's okay it's okay it does have mining it's acceptable but cyril his position is not acceptable he's going to brood lord investor there's gonna be people watching this game you say see brew thought infest is not good it gets counted by ghosts yeah when your opponent's up 50 army supply i think that might be the case great fungals though oh and he's dodged a lot of the emps as well another one comes in and this honestly was the worst fight of all time by maru in terms of taking giant fungals and getting hit by everything but it didn't matter he had the numbers and he knew that if he pushed on top he could kill most of what cyril has and trade with him at a point when guess what cyril can't really defend his economy oh my god actually cyril does kill that base this is like the sickest fight of all time for cerro but it's just he's just so outnumbered i don't think it matters he's so outnumbered that was amazing fungals and and we got to see kind of the idea he's going to drop widow minds on the brood lord uh maru they're styling on cerro's last few brood lords and cereal he got he got a few bases up in the top left too little too late even though he denied one of the bases remember that maru has the iron bank and he it's not i can dance all day it's like a mule all day i can mule all day you can deny some mining i can build all day mother trucker i've got the iron bank my name is maru my late game is sick and cyril has realized he needed to break maru earlier or he needed to protect a solid 75 drone economy and the moment he got knocked down into the 50s the moment he lost a few mining bases and had idle drones for a minute or two here or there maru as long as he had one mining base with mules blanketing it he was able to overtake and overwhelm and that's that's kind of the balancing factor here where the zerg has an easier to use mobile army one could argue on the other hand they need to protect a much larger portion of the map than the terran does and that there is the beautiful asymmetric balance of starcraft 2 maru striking back and ties up the series one to one alright alright alright let's go guys game number three several in the bottom right there unable to compete with the late game of the maru played a very safe progression to late game i admire it i respect it and uh fantastic oh oh that was a bit of a mistake as depot's a second late there he'd rallied it to the natural for some reason rather than just rallying it to the spot i think i think he wanted it to not decelerate he also hasn't doubled up on his close patch there we go he fixes that up maru i was like focus buddy you're you tied up the series you don't even have a lead yet no time to make mistakes there barracks should be going for that gas in a moment okay nice build order and a very standard 16 hatch right on 47 seconds going on 48 for cyril so very nice play overall guys very nice play between these two and we're going to talk a little bit about that last game right so is taran overpowered in late game people were saying um do you guys know how hard it is to keep your army spread across multiple screens the way mario was i don't even know how he does it like does he does he just not keep anything control group like what does he do i mean i guess i can bring up control groups over here on the right for both players whenever i've got one of their units clicked you can see it but um it feels like he's just got to kind of scroll around and box his units and he's like i've got some here some here some here and none of it's on control groups and he's just kind of scrolling around manually kind of saying oh borrow that widow mind spread out the liberator use the ghosts you know like it's it's not something where there's an easy shortcut because remember why does it look so different if average joe or even any other terran that's not the best taran in the world tries to do what mario did in that like that last game well the main problem you have is at some point you f2 you select all army or you grab the half of the army that's on a control group you click it somewhere and it's in this big fat blob of ghosts and mines and libs and the zerg jumps on it and you're like yeah and your units get blown up by being links um and it's just hard to organize so the way maru and and the best herons do this really well just fought for map dominance and control it's awesome to watch because it's so i mean it looks easy if you've never played starcraft because he makes it look kind of easy it's so hard to not just do it and the simpler format we see from like an innovation style terran you know in the last year um who started really the the this big late game terran popularity is he just pushed both sides of the map with these like half of his army but maru doesn't keep it that simple he's much more fluid yeah he'll push the right push the you know push the left but he'll also consolidate his whole army in the middle when needed he'll bring it together and support each other and he'll back away at other times so nice to get another drone snipe there definitely cereal not too happy with that of course both players having to play here are cross server a little bit so neither player really having an advantage both players having a less than ideal environment but that is the way it goes a bit of lag for both sides now this is a very quick start point he's building more marines guys which makes me think about maybe a 420 held out timing 420 light a month that reaper just jumped from there to there reaper physics man what the hell just jumped over a bloody barrel doodad ooh cyril's doing map one again guys map one now on this map can we on maru if he takes this third there's actually a really nice tank spot there and there um i think this third's still better that's that's my thought but uh you can kind of just control this area and just don't build the depots at the third and i'm okay with the front third as long as he doesn't build depots out here maybe some depots there because he wants to hold the tank position up here against that roach flood oh guys seven roaches eight roaches already on the way and there's a 420 light them up it's a 420 light them up guys so this attacks meant to hit four minutes 20 with six hellbots four marines in a medevac i think he's going to be a few seconds late on it so not the christmas timing though you could argue because he hasn't missed a single bit of scv production this is more of an economic variation but no here we go guys armory is going to finish he's going to morph these lbats the first four here the next one's coming in behind it he's unloading on top but roaches are the counter to this and this is fantastic for cyril maru needs to leave look at that he picks up in broombroom burn burn form and he's got to run home he's got to try and get these marines home of course roaches 3.15 movement speed marines 3.15 movement speed the doggo the doggos getting caught duh okay he's going to lose some marines which is a bit of a bum he's going to try and hold the ramp hellbets very good at beating roaches if they can get the roaches to attack into them but oh mario what are we doing buddy let's click on his medevac he's trying to fight out here i mean this seems like a great fight for cerro good pickups to save some of these units but it's going to be a while till the ban she's out and as cyril do you just stop and kill the depots i think you do because he knows he can't get up the ramp and he knows the suvs have been pulled so he says look if i run up the ramp the hell bats are gonna roast me in that cramped space on the ramp so just kill whatever i can get my hands on banshee's here does he run home there's two suvs that are in the open those suvs are free kills right now you can kill yeah i can kill that one as well obviously losing all your roaches kind of sucks but okay he's getting he's gonna try and breach the ramp here there's two more suvs there's two more down there i think this is pretty good damage for cereal who's up to 62 workers behind this and he's actually swapping off roaches he's making link speed guys so he's not playing mass rush i thought he was going to play mass roach but look at all that delay third cc is almost finished for maru but at this point you know the roach is going to die on the way home why not just grab another marine maybe even go back in get one more suv loses another suv and oh that marine barely gets out three bases filled with workers spire building on the front of the base spore crawler there as well and he's going into zerglings bailey nest just going down no evo chamber just yet by golly he's way ahead though cyril was going for an eight roach pressure with no zergling speed this game and it was the best possible build to be doing against maru's opening and this is just a very bad matchup of build orders and maru i think a little too slow to retreat in this game he obviously morphed his hell back so deep in zerg territory that it's a bit of a disaster and uh actually i think there was a rogue verse maru game i can't remember what tournament it was but i think that one happened where it was a similar match up actually maybe it was cereal maru in the group stage i can't remember it was the same matchup same build order and same um it's just the roaches were a little late and the hell bats ended up doing really good damage because the roaches were only popping out as the drones were dying but in this case the roaches were about 20 seconds 30 seconds faster i changed everything we've got queens there as well 1-1 upgrades on the way 10 meters building it's uh 12. my god that's a lot of muters and that means he can easily clean up these banshees for free if he chooses to sarah his changeling there if you see that red dot and wondering what that is armory of course is already done so he doesn't need to add that and he's gonna go for a hell that marine drop which is gonna if that flies into the mutes he just loses the game oh and cyril sees it coming yep cyril can just gather his muters and lings kill this drop and that's gg or he can just counter attack either one works commuters are on top of the banshees one's out of energy the other's very low and he's morphing bailey's he's looking for an attack right now and cyril finds the marines in the open they try to run away the mute is going for that and they're gonna pull on in the natural scv's getting ransacked right now surprised he didn't attack those at all ling's in the main as well ling's in the natural things in the main no combat shields done right now links in the natural going down lings and mute is in the main doing some good damage cyril just absolutely ransacking maru's basin i mean i thought it would be even more damage but it's not done yet lings at the front going to take down that siege tank these suvs are toast bainlings rolling in behind this bailing speed will be finished soon one one upgrades have started cyril it's still up a full base of workers and bailing speed is like 10 seconds away he's like give me a moment please come on just hold on just a moment please of course these are harder the swarm seconds counting down on the right side of your screen which is why they go so bloody quickly builds the hype i say and as bailing speed kicks in i think we go in for one more round and we go for the finish cheryl looking for that 2-1 advantage he says get out of this game maru your cheeky yell that timings just went to dick town um just enough yeah just enough to overwhelm i mean he was already in a disastrous disastrous position was maru and now even worse the mute is able to fight the marines even under the medevac healing mario's got a tap out that is a devastating crushing easy defeat there for cerro great choice of building well people are talking about how if if if maru could take down cerulean it would just cement him potentially as the greatest of all time definitely i mean he's already best form in the world right now maru and if you get to this on top of it it would be so huge but cyril is up two to one he's picking his builds fantastically he's playing great starcraft and he's creating very big problems for maru who now goes into pride of altarus now i'm gonna go i'm gonna go out on the limb guys and say there's a few things maru thinks when he queues into this map and then his giant piece of um maru does not like playing on this game man on this map he this map is huge it's hard to finish the zerg off it's gigantic it's it's awkward to get across it's easier for the zerg to defend their gold base than it is for you to defend yours though honestly i don't expect either player to be taking that until base number six maybe base number five very much doubt it'll be taken before then and it's just hard to finish off a guy like cyril is very good now on the other hand maru also might be thinking me late game god me very good at turtling with ghosts maybe i'll go straight there so i don't i mean i say straight there he's playing three racks he says reactor first build order mario's playing three racks guys on this map wow okay i'm curious to see how cyril handles this because a lot of players have struggled against his three racks right raynor um looked okay against it early on but just the transition afterwards is kind of awkward to deal with and i'm pretty sure with how much he's pulled off gas yeah just gets the reactor builds the second barracks third one will go down there momentarily after that command center three racks very popular in this matchup recently maru's been mixing it in a lot and we've talked about how we the real trick with this build is he wants to hit a big sting stim combat shield marine timing about five minutes and he wants to just force cyril to either oh sarah's unprepared i run in and i just win the game do crazy damage or much more realistic scenario is i scare the out of cyril he makes way too many units i back off i come back a little bit later he makes even more units but i just keep avoiding a real committed fight and just kind of picking off some zerglings and backing off picking off some sergeants creep jim is backing off and if he can just he keep that threat going deny errol's map vision makes errol uncomfortable and keeps cereal low enough on workers that he actually even with his delayed third base ends up getting ahead on economy that's kind of the dream that's what maru wants to have happen and of course this is done without an engineering bay or with a quick second gas so your factory is not too far behind and of course this helps you catch up because you weren't mining with that first gas uh hello uh stoner stoner scv get back to work buddy and i don't think he realizes he's only got two on um i guess there no way oh my god i can't believe he got an overlord there sarah was like are you freaking kidding me dude that's actually really huge a four marine pressure any other zerg might have just built enough zerglings to surround and kill this but mario was okay with taking that risk he said it's several cyril's not gonna contest my marines until his link speed's done so we can actually do a full marine poke be annoying maybe get a creep trim maybe get an overlord and then just go home and behind it stim shields is on the way cyril should realize what he's up against but it's hard to say in this scenario three queens are out three more coming out and his overlord's going to try and fly in the back of this base factory goes down right on four minutes that's what i was talking about the second gas allows you to have a pretty good factory timing in tvp with the three racks build if you're going for a fast engineering bay you don't get that started till about 4 20. in this case 20 seconds faster than that so not bad at all and seeing that factory timing cyril should know exactly what he's up against he drops a bailing nest he's building some more zerglings too many zerglings okay so cyril holding down the zergling key means only on 39 drones he actually needs to get a great fight if he keeps holding down the link key instead of droning he should maybe look for a counter bus i don't know it's an awkward scenario because now he goes back to drones but he built his zerglings way too early and that i think is a bit nasty yeah he's looking for a bit of a run by but the wall off is up man cyril i i really feel his economy is too low and i said ideal realistic scenario scare the out of the zerg get him to overbuild fighting units not have enough drones guess what it's already succeeded maru succeeded even before moving out with his marines on the map and now his marines are forcing even more zerglings the trick is he cannot fight into cereal well sarah already lost a few things maybe he can he shouldn't be able to but he might if he can bait the queens off crete that'd be good notice cyril's not re-spreading his creep yet he's gonna wait for the scan to run out and then he'll try to think about it big wall of queens here one queen's gonna run down and get surrounded ling's coming on him notice how he oh he's trying to let the queen's tankers sterile and let his sergeants come in afterwards great micro by mario and he takes a pretty good trade dude yeah he just walks away walks away cerro making 12 drones but he's down in workers right now third command center starts up for maru cerul so so bad in the economy situation in this game i i don't think it's game over when a third command center's just started you've got to take into account if you over build units that much you absolutely need to crush that push now i keep seeing people go 10 12 13 queens to defend this i really think it's the worst way to defend this push maybe not the worst i disagree that's that's way too stiff language that's way too critical um i think if you're going to go bailings and zerglings you're better off building a bit more ling bane and getting a flank off on the marines with just a six queen build i think you're actually better off because the queens can't really force the marines to fight and while queens are very good versus two one one that's because it's more medevac reliant this build the medevacs are a minute later it's just a big mass of marines if you get enough things to hold them in position and kill them even if you're down on workers if you kill the first 20 marines off just like say 44 workers mastling bane you crush them you get a flank on the marines without the medevacs it's a one-sided engagement it's really bad for the marine player because he doesn't have the option to pick up and evacuate now notice maru he knows that that's why he's left all these units at home he's only kept 16 marines out here after the first pressure to join up with his medevacs because any more units and he wouldn't be able to evacuate if he gets in trouble 16 marines though perfect number he fits right on in there fourth base is on the way now for several he's back up to 61 workers cerro could definitely claw his way back mahru's suv production inconsistent at best in this game he's got five barracks up but where is his worker production it sucks right now maru's got to focus on that mahru's not building any suvs is maru all in maru's playing this like he's all in right now he's only on single engineering bay the third command center almost seems like it was like a mistake or a fake it's something he wanted cyril to see and kind of react to sarah's coming forward he's got a big flank here we go oh there we go beautiful ling flank on the tanks but the tanks do get a volley off one big bailing hit on the marines but the marines also focus down a few more of the banes the medevacs do take a bit of a bruising one of them does go down nice defense by cyril he's taking another base on the left side he'll try to retake this one as well i think and the suvs start up now okay hydra den just went down eight nine ten more drones on the way sarah doesn't have a massive worker lead or anything like that he's got some decent creep but he's got to keep it going maru just wants to keep him distracted enough so he doesn't do that oh nice links around and some banes coming in behind it as well oh these are great fights for cyril and cyril back in the driver's seat he's got a thousand minerals in the bank he doesn't have a fifth hatchery or a macro hatch this is a huge mistake for several guys it's talking about this uh in a rain or series against maru earlier if you lose your fourth base you've got to drop a macro hatch immediately and you've really got to make sure you keep that lava up because if you miss any injects from here you're not going to be able to spend your money on just three hatch production now liberator comes in oh and this catches sarah way off off guard he's unsuspecting four drones go down queen will start working that liberator and another one in the main gonna be annoying oh cyril no okay barely keeps that queen alive this liberator dancing with this queen in the natural cyril oh he misclicked it he could have oh no okay meanwhile oh that's a dead hatchery as well no cancel that's a kill any oh my god cyril just lost both queens where are the rest of his queens he didn't bring them back he was so worried about the front that cyril shot the bed and did not build spores he did not bring his queens back and then he got distracted on the front and lost his queens these two liberators oh my god this this reminds me so much of all my games verse vindicta it just feels unfair the terran just sieges up one imbe unit and what what do you have to have apm and attention to deal with it well normally sarah would make that look bad and deal with it that's the sort of move that kills me every time because i suck at this game um it's just kind of wild to see cyril so used to being so perfect in his response under response saying no no i'll just handle it with two queens verse two lives easy and then he made the mistake and he gets punished for being a bit too cocky there so a bit of a mistake there for sterile uh marines gonna pick up and pull back marine tank down here as well he's gonna try and siege up below that ledge oh it's a nasty position that is oh those tanks are annoying man he's gonna try and drop across the queens are gonna try and shoot down that now of course queens take a lot of tank shots before they go down so really good control here by sarah he's only lost one queen so far get some medevac yeah this is this is really good handling by him and the army in the middle is very small he could easy wipe that could cereal his units all kind of funnel around that little movement blocker a little bit of a mistake from serol in the micro didn't kill the tank as quickly as it could have his base is guys he's stuck on three base mining he's finally got a gold base on the way but maru is is with small armies getting way more value than he has any right to be getting and this is a tiny army and he's going to kill a base cyril could have just a move those links with those tanks with lings he could have done it but now he's going to lose this hatchery for sure and that's a big problem and look at this maru's like ah this army's dead so he realizes like let's just leave and he's gonna save it all oh he's so annoying and cyril's a bit tilted at this point i guarantee you if we had his camera up on screen you'd be seeing him pulling his hair and he's kind of going not the way he wanted this game to go gold based very exposed he's trying to get back in control he's had a 2-2 versus one one upgrade lead for a while as well this base has been untouched uh some ling run by some bailing run buys would be great he's gonna break these rocks and look for a big swamping engage on this fourth base that could work out very well if he goes now the planetary is not ready there's no reinforced uh position there's no tanks or mines forces to pick up on the top side but look at that maru's maru is rejoining his whole army and this area you do not want to fight this is why this gold base sucks he can just set up his tanks up here it's such a bad area for zerg to attack into but he's got creep he's got creep oh yeah okay not too bad oh that widow mine okay that was bad great pullbacks on the marines there for maru that one red hit point wouldn't mind surviving i don't think cheryl realized it was there as his overseer had already gone down so he's making a new one he's got lots of gas in the bank but not enough minerals to go right now remember this is a full eight mineral patch gold base it's got great mining but he's just going to give it up he realizes it's a bit of a dead end fighting there he doesn't have groove spines no groove spines oh no cyril's using smooth brain hydrolysis rather than groove brain remember always guys you got to get your groove brain it gives them plus one range they do not have that which means it's hydras right now i think they only have five range they could have six it's a really important upgrade for those hydrolisks and the zerglings nice widow mine does kill a single morphing baitly not the end of the world ghost academy is on the way fifth command center on the way as well maru here trying to max out before going for the iron bank he's realized this is the way to play it make sure there's no area where you can just get wiped off the face of the map and cyril needs to use some movement because there is nothing on the left side a single tank right now and maru he's really taking liberties he's realizing that if he puts a sensor tower somewhere cyril hates moving into sensor tower vision and he only does it when he's gonna full-on commit to an attack and usually there's a bit of a delay him setting up the attack and then going in maru's not having to worry about reign or style little circling backstabs hitting his bases that's why he's able to just rally everything to the front because cyril is a front-on man cyril what is his spirit animal it's an angry ram that likes to headbutt its opposition to assert dominance sarah likes to win front on fights and that's exactly what he's going for here but look at this setup for maru maru just pulling back into layers of tanks and libs and he says my skull is just too thick you can't headbutt me to death my skull's thicker than you're a and you know what it's it's everything else is weak for maru but this is the one area he cannot fight on his terms one tank defending nothing else nothing but a planetary on the fourth and he's gonna take a fifth on his gold days by the looks of it as well in the midst of all this cyril's back is up against the wall and he's taking terrible trades he's got to cut off the rally the fact is he maru's rallying across the map this is something when you hit diamond league you stop doing this because you realize it's bad outside of very particular circumstances because any run by is going to ruin you but maru has identified how cyril thinks how he likes to play and he said if i put you in this position you're just going to try and smash me in a head-on push and that's exactly what i'm going to commit every single bit of my army towards stopping the unit's loss tab gets worse and worse it does not look good for cereal at this point as the tank lib train moves forward fifth base going up as a planetary for maru still just hydra ling bane an army which with a flank with us around might work out fighting deep on creep might work out where's the creep it's gone it's gone it's all been just wiped off this area he's cleared this path methodically and the buyer the ghost say come and fight into this bloody mess of a ramp i know you want to silly zerg player cyril happy to oblige he finally sends a zergling run by eight zergling run by that is the biggest amount cerro will commit to a run by in this game apparently any more than eight zerglings not something he wants to take away from his army and he cannot break that rally maru reinforcing his push way too hard ties up the series two to two back to even here and an unfortunate turn of events that lovely tank spot getting him on a map which really i think should have been in his favor he now goes into our map which is most certainly not in the zerg's favor it's black burn this is several in the right maru in the left now don't get me wrong cyril usually is the best zerg player in the world at winning on the smallest rush distance maps i wonder if that ability to knuckle down and play zvt and he always beats terence on beckett on submarine on cyber forest back in the day whatever the rush distance map is cyril almost always has a disgusting win rate verse taran on those maps now does that carry over to black burner because this isn't about short rush distance black bone is about the evil face we see in the bottom of the map you're going to notice there's an eye here an eye here and then we've got a bit of a kind of downturned mouth with a lovely little split moustache and you can tell this guy is very angry and serious and he's always cheering for terran players that's definitely not a xeno face it's not a zerg face it's a terran face and it's he's he's there he's the pirate that is black burn the pirate here on blackburn the map i definitely didn't just notice that right now and um that is kind of creepy though right guys and he goes that's an eye apparently that's one of the eyes these little bits of terrain that that face definitely hates cirque um yeah the main problem is most of the fighting on this map is actually around the face of this um on this path right and you've got slow zones really bad for the the short-range desert units uh once you open these rocks it gets a bit better but you've also got some nice ledges and you've got a very one-directional map now you can argue it's hard for terran to pressure because they have to pressure in a predictable pattern so it's easy for queens to defend early games so it could be a bit greedy but you can also argue that when the terran gets to four bases where does the zerg multi-prong if they can't break the terran here this this front base where do they go they can break those rocks and go there but it's kind of hard to break those rocks and if they go all the way around the top it's a big big diversion it's a big uh detour it's hard to get there now for those who don't know this map hates zerg in a few ways there's a terran who's having a bit of a nap there on break and it looks like his hands down his pants oh no uh anyways uh up here we've got an ultra risk trapped as well in a cage um down there we have some hydraulics that have been chained down if we get vision of them you'll see they're actually alive and they're moving they're trying to break out of their restraints we can't see it through the fog of war but uh yeah this is like a weird terran test facility where they do all sorts of evil to zerg so definitely a map which is going to be hard for cereal and it is expected for maru to win here well not expected but you know he's favored so that's a pretty late third base guys three minute third he's got ling speed no more roach shenanigans from cyril i said he would do it game one but i gotta be real guys maru has lost so many games him and clem both to mass roach ravager and they still every game even when they see it will just take the exposed third at the front and build depots in front of it and basically just sacrifice the game due to it i kind of wish cyril did go for roach ravager um just because i mean if maru you know died so splendidly to it in game one after scouting it minutes ahead of time maybe just maybe never just maybe won't be the case here though oh it's a marauder build or is it no it's not it's not he cancelled the marauder cancels concussive makes stem cancel stem cancels marine makes the orbital and makes more hellions he's like wait a second all right let's just go build some add-ons so he's going to go viking but because he got scouted and there's a very quick vein nest here for cyril sarah might play extra safe and he already is playing pretty darn safe so he's saying i was gonna go for i held that marauder timing we're not going to do it now i'm just going to build a banshee i'm not going to make cloak we got more minerals he was short on minerals before so we might still make cloak it'll be a bit late it's probably just a defensive battery and uh just going to chill out the viking here has already found one overlord the head overlord pulls back though very wise of cyril he's gonna pull back this one as well yeah queen's ready to defend it ah this overlord pretty far forward so we might lose one of these other ones but even that's gonna be hard for the viking to snack to snack the vikings like oh that ove looks like a riot snack done it done it it's in it not done it doesn't it i just tried to say doesn't it like isn't it like a british person nice um besides my absolutely rambling words guys we are looking for a bit of a helium dive he's gonna get the overlord the queens are in position cyril totally disrespected that by the way he knew the aliens were gonna turn around transfuse transfers gets it keeps her alive maru there uh he gets edged a little bit that viking unable to get to completion it's a little frustrating third base does float down guys we've got one one upgrades on the way we've got three barracks make it fourth and fifth barracks factory can lift off as well starboard adding a reactor for its medevac banshee in the main says hello i'm a banshee with no cloak i'd like to harass but i've decided it's not a good idea i'm gonna turn around i'm gonna back off for now double evo chamber in the natural spores in every single base 63 drones 18 zerglings and what do we got queens moving on forward zergling sees the third base definitely would love a bit of a ling run by on that base there's not many marines out right now double evo chamber upgrades should be about a minute but i'll probably like 45 seconds or so behind depending on how quick serial is to start those bailing speed on the way queens come forward and you should be able to replace this creep very quickly one one rodeo one one's a egg um okay so he gets those 50 seconds behind on those just over 50 seconds by the upgrades it's a sizable disadvantage in the upgrades which is a little weird for a hydra style but he does have bane speed at a very good timing so any early stim push will be meeting bailing speed head on and i love that cyril takes the conservative fourth base he's not taking the stupid gold base until afterwards so he'll mine the gold if he can but then he'll just transfer drones up here most likely so just a bit more of an intelligent way of doing it um i do wonder he scans up there oh i think he's gonna put the tank here let's see aliens looking for those active tumors but oh there's a lot of zerglings that's a lot of zerglings oh my god i could i would go for the surrounding i would just go don't you got bailings why dilly dally oh sarah wants more cyril says i don't give a about just getting a tank and a few marines i don't care about that gold base i want to do damage son he's gonna click on the command center fourth command center gets cancelled ling bane in the rear with the gear bailings on the mineral line is more important than the marines right now he's got to go for the marines he's killing so much but maru chad maru dives on the queens but no speed veins are there and that means it's all going to be held a good spready but my god maru just gets ravaged and it looks like we're going to see a 3-2 lead potentially from this this is a game ending 20 21 22 suvs going down he even keeps some of the links alive cancels the fourth command center keeps his base alive doesn't lose any drones he's still on 70 workers i mean cyril could come with round two right now what is there to defend a tank 16 marines honestly sarah could just hold down the ling bane key and kill him he's gonna try and roll bailings in but there is a depot wall marines are going to go hunt for it maru good senses there and he will stop those bailings in their tracks oh my god he almost lost him cyril could have actually manually detonated that would have been pretty cool gets a few marines nonetheless and his work account wasn't great before but he uses the momentum from that massive units to go to 83 workers infestation pit's almost finished and this is gonna be a game where honestly maru has one choice and that is maru's favorite choice i'm gonna turtle and maybe i survive for 15 minutes and then the game's even um chances of that happening highly unlikely cyril just took a massive lead the choice remember the early game scouting was good for sarah he shut down the viking it didn't do anything the banshee ended up being a wasted investment and he gave up a fifth hatchery he didn't care about and and and did massive massive damage so now mara is crawling back into a macro game against dessert who should be maxed out while he's at 150 supply and that's exactly what cyril's looking for two two's a little behind and he he's got high drop grades on the way how many hydras only four hydras on the way he's making seven more drones that might be a few too many oh nice drippy drop finds the uh the opening it's five drones including a sport brawler being a bit of a nuisance there very well done hive's almost finished now cyril is just playing hydra lingbane i think with these numbers advantage that's fine if this was an even game i'd say do brood lord infested just don't do it from behind man i think it was glittering ashes right where he tried to go broods from behind but do it from do it do it from even do it from ahead right and that would be cool i think it's fine to play lurking bane high drilling bane here i do think he shouldn't focus on the lurkers he should really focus on hitting a maxed out timing especially because if maru takes a fourth easy angle to attack is the fourth base and down here at the same time he's not going to be able to defend all that what's he got a widow mine dropped a few marines distracting and okay but cyril's giving him that time now i i often criticize cyril for being a bit too cautious even but he sees a fourth being taken it's go time son it's absolutely go time the funny thing is maru's not even defending the fourth he's almost all defending here i still think he can get rolled by just masling bang hydra cancer kills another base cyril getting distracted by this widowman drop right now it only gets four drones but it forces spawk rollers out his overseas has to come back these widow mines being a big old nuisance look at that he's gonna get it borrowed he gets it borrowed yeah that's not dead that's gonna survive marine drop pulls back there as well okay overseas did go up cyril cleans that up but maru happy to sacrifice a few units to get his fourth established right now maru's like just survive max out survive max out survive and and cyril's making mass baneling which is the worst composition against tanks that are spread now there's still a lot of marines and there's no ghosts and no marauders yet so the bailings are okay but i actually think he wants to be heavier on the zerglings this is a problem a lot of players have had against maru who's going too heavy on the paintings versus a guy who masks his text oh boom baby 10 drones go down that could have been even worse but still causing such a ruckus with such a small investment cereal is going to go for the break he does not have blinding cloud he doesn't go have blinding cloud he's going to try and abduct some tanks in here he grabs one in the vane links going into the mineral line the marines and suvs there are getting taken down okay this looks like it should be a good enough tack to to finish uh maru off another wave of bailings comes in what has he got a widow mine drop and four marines and cyril is gonna take the this this this with this push he does lose a few drones to the widow mines queens are finally cleaning that but he's up at 84 drones even after losing a solid uh 29 workers he's killed 40 kills every single medevac and man it really felt like on this map i thought maru had a great chance but cyril's just swamping over him and cyril has this game in the bag he's just gonna make some lurkers kill this base and uh and roll through there's there's nothing left for maru so the numbers do end up sealing the deal on blackburn tried to bait the widowmine but the tank was there what do we got so we've got plus one range plus three melee adrenal glands we've got adaptive talons on the way all right look it's gonna come on forward there oh i love the lurker harass he does have seismic spines oh that tank is barely not in i think it's not in vision range i think it's in lurking range he goes for a bus down the bottom what his whole army just got absolutely minced was that only part of his army where's the rest of his units how did that happen there's not that many units for maru right now but cyril just took an awkward fight he said 95 drones oh he's a bit too high on drones as long as he keeps securing new bases he should be breaking these rocks taking that top base and just keep he could just run up here with all of his lurkers and just borrow them and kill that base so that's an easy target right now and that's if he gets rid of the mining on the fourth i mean maru is dry um he's gonna make a lot more ling bain a lot more lurkers he's trying to make two vipers right now he's gonna make a dropper load to put some beans in scan that gets that lurker even just baiting scans for lurkers when you've got 95 drones that's probably not too bad for several but cyril is letting this base he keeps attacking this angle i don't know why he's not just running up and sieging on that with his lurkers you could even siege it from up here like with a single lurker would be a great little harassment right now you get a lurker in range of that tank up there might kill it before it even kills you cyril's kind of chilling for a little bit he's waiting for a few more hydras and zerglings and not really feeling the urgency a lot of players do against maru he's miles ahead right now he's gonna think about breaking those rocks he's got a lurker drop so he's gonna go lurker drop here and then down here which is an awesome lurker drop angle you do that while pushing elsewhere it can be great but maru is getting to ghosts cyril really dropping the ball right now and letting maru get to the point of the game where he's scary i mean there's so much bank that i don't know if it matters he's gonna go and attack the same angle one more time can he break through this time around he's being very cautious breaks down the missile i think he wants to attack while the lurker's attack but he's foreshadowing this attack so the whole army comes great emp and oh my god he goes in he borrows the lurkers and then he pulls back he's not brave enough to commit there he's like nah this is not a good fight but he's he still left this base it's barely defended that ultra's like let me out let me add him son him up sir him up and let me out let me out bro meanwhile maru is is in the midst of just surviving in a situation where nobody else could survive and it's such good reads of the situation his is literally whenever the army's down here his whole army's here whenever cyril's army's up here his whole army's here look his ghost certain position if lurk is run he's ready to snipe them that lurker i was talking about from before comes up just gets popped but here we go nice lurker drop from behind that's a frustrating one to deal with that is lurkers in two of the bases now cyril's gonna try to jump on this base at the same time but his ling bane should be attacking from the left it shouldn't be there so i don't know why the ling bane is sitting on the same control group right at that point the hydras come forward they're gonna clean up no they aren't the liberator survives the ling bane running around the left side these queens walking forward to their death as well it looks like maru somehow cleaned up the drop the bailings are gonna roll in this should not be going this way cerro is running in in disarray he's running around like a headless locker right now this base should have gone down in that trade he's he's what's the unit's loss tab i don't know how he's this inefficient when he's had this much more material to work with he's down 10 000 resources he's got this base mining he hasn't opened up that base which means the longer this goes he will run out of places to mine from he's had a very good work account for a long time and he still could absolutely win this game now obviously this army on the south he's he wants to abduct our blinding cloud to bust this but he keeps getting emp'd whenever he tries to he's got two full energy vipers of one good blinding cloud swamp in could still absolutely do it but right now maru is going to try and take this command center in the top left if he gets that up that's a really big lurker drop gonna go around the left side feels like saru cyril similar to the earlier map um when he had a little bit of momentum in one of his earlier maps he also kind of slowed down a little bit you can't slow down actually sorry it was again it was a rain or game that i cast earlier that i'm thinking of where raynor had the same issue maru survived so well at a certain point you start to doubt whether these engagements are any good and the moment you hesitate against maru you give him a moment's peace and look at these defenses he sets up their bloody imber man he's so good at defending with this taran toolkit he's so goddamn good at just hanging on and look at this he's trying to just clear this ground make it hard for cyril to control that lurker drop round two's coming in cyril's thinking about going brood lords right now because he's not actually killing maru and he's not trading that amazingly either now nice lurker drop he did break the rocks in the bottom by the way so he's gonna take that hatchery down there which is very smart the ghost comes in and good dodgers oh the ghost keeps getting interrupted lurker though not able to kill it lurker in the natural gonna kill a few suvs this is a great move blinding cloud busts the front but ah i think he maybe could have got the planetary if he committed but he pulls back there doesn't quite get it lots of zerglings in the north planetary has been erected two tanks on the edge plus a liberator beautiful set up there and look at that he saves the lurker he's gonna go back going to drop it down there maru should be able to deal with this though and all cyril's doing is massing ling bane right now and i've talked about it a lot guys mass bailings does not beat tank ghost it is the worst thing you could do there is no longer a marine composition here there is 12 ghosts but that is not the most important thing ling's do not terribly verse ghosts they don't do that bad versus ghosts they're not great but you need the links to kill the tanks you need the lings to swarm forward some bailings in there but this is so heavy on the baines he's got 70 zerglings a little bit better on the mix i think but he's attacking down a brutal choke point he can block the planetary that's for sure cyril has money for days he takes out the planetary if you can get on the ghost this might be enough he's gonna pull back those tanks kill so many failings on the way out though and several he's got the bottom base going up in the top base guys cereal won this game 10 minutes ago and he has failed to finish maru off and it's actually disgusting at this point maru he's so good at making comebacks from behind and it's it's crazy that he's hanging in there but at the same time i do see several being hesitant this is wide open for zurging run base right now that top base wide open for lurkers to run in and jump on it he's got to get rid of these sensor towers because the sensor towers have literally bullied cyril away from every game-winning position in this game he's too afraid to go into censor tower range and maru's taking advantage of that he's censoring his whole army this is the one place you do not want to fight as cyril cyril can force him to reposition maru's nowhere near max but he's trying to go brood lord corrupter now in fester he's trying to do brood lord in fester but he's going to lose his middle bases and he's already mined out most of the bases on his side of the map he doesn't have that big bank if he went straight to brood lord investor he'd have a big bank to to back him up and work off as it is he's going to come down here as a bit of a last-ditch effort but by this point he's already just spread and maru now has an army spread across the entire map blackburn has been locked down and the zerg virus has been isolated guys there are travel restrictions there is no dining out on blackburn there you could only buy one package of toilet paper from the grocery store cyril cyril's like this you're messing with my zerg rights free meanwhile maru's like dude this is how we get rid of the zerg virus this is how we control the spread of your toxic creep tumor and and honestly sarah's gonna lose both middle bases and where can he fight max ling would kill these but he's got to find he's got to come in with like big packs of 30 40 50 lings kill four or five tanks run away kill four or five tanks run away this sort of tank spread is so so powerful and it's so dirty that you know as a zerg player you don't want to make mass sling in the late game but you kind of have to send these big waves of wings in and do exactly what you can uh this is actually a big big issue but cyril has gone the ultimate late game comp so he could still win from here remember marou took a terrible fight into brood lords earlier it's just that maru is gonna have a little bit fresher bases super fresh there not many minerals there but if he holds this base as well he's good and he's denied the two middle bases which while cerro was doing that i'm going to overwhelm you in the mid game style he was not fully mining those two middle bases right he did transfer workers to the top reasonably quickly but he didn't actually do that and i really feel if you guys are going to just swamp over your opponent hydra hydra-ling being hydraling bane lurker try and kill try and kill try and kill if you fully saturate the middle bases it gives you insurance if you fully saturate and mine those out so if you do transition to a slower style and have to give them up you've already mined out most of the resources on them and that's that's really a nice insurance mechanism that you can add in there at the moment there's still a big a couple of lurkers eight investors three vipers 11 brood lords are out he's going to go to 14 brood lords and thor's are being built for maru now thor's are very good against brood lords if you can emp every spell cast of the zerg has and if you can't and they neural parasite god forbid or just blinding cloud to make it so your thor's have to waddle around rather than actually shooting thor's look like a really awkward ass unit now that being said if they're just fighting brood lords and both sides are unsupported the thaws each thor can kill maybe three four brood lords they're very efficient in that regard of course they cost a bit more supply a little bit more money than a brood lord but they're still insanely cost efficient so you don't want to go too heavy on thor's because they become a big blinding cloud target potentially neural parasite or abduct target but if you can just get five or six out which it appears he's stopping at just four for now that he is max um they will kill those brood lords at extreme range with extreme prejudice hydra's run forward uh lurker there is trying to kill these tanks after scan and the one shot it does go down and cyril i can't believe he's made he's been pushed back to this phase and i really feel like cyril it's it's the black burn effect there's not many good attack angles but it was also why did he not just bring his whole army around in that d2 or just borrow the lurkers on this base earlier he let maru take that gold and that gold basically is is the one little bit of energy that maru used to punch his way out of the grave in this game and that's what's got him back into this maru now has plus three vehicle weapons plus one armor plus two on the way he's got blue flame hell that's why is he going blue flame hell bats you might wonder they are there to kill the broodlings very quickly having a few hellbats mixed in is just going to kill all the brood lengths they're going to one shot like 10 broodlings per blue flame shot so it's very effective just have a few hell that's kind of guarding your thoughts and he's going up to six thor's for now he's also adding air upgrades advanced ballistics so he's gonna go liberator range ghost thor bitter everything isn't it such an awkward army to control but there's one guy who can do it it's probably him watch out for the spells from cyril cyril throws some babies but then the babies go mom and they run straight back to mama um these ones are actually going to be thrown into battle as you can see they disappear pretty quickly to the ghosts and so on okay mario's going to try and build a base in the top what a savage if that gets up sarah will be so triggered looking at this replay you'll be like you built a base on location in the top middle and mara will be like yeah i was thinking maybe you wouldn't check it if he gets away with that it's actually wild what are those medivac's doing oh he's sacrificing me so he sacrifices a few medevacs he says i've got too many got five or left over that's more than enough kills the base in the bottom as well um a reminder in the people in the chat we don't condone balance whining in this channel um so you know in case anyone's about to get whiny i already see a few people saying comments if you guys are regulars it doesn't matter if it's sarcastic or not you're in text sarcasm doesn't work in text guys so uh yeah keep it going yeah you gotta understand that when we don't have these rules if you guys have ever gone go to the esl sc2 channel during a big tournament read the chat there if you ever need an explanation as to why we don't condone balance whining even sarcastic balance mining go and read a big tournament channel maybe look at the gsl youtube chat channel it's a really fun place it's literally like you lose 70 iq just for opening that chat um it's it's actually painful this is a critical mass of brood lords they can pretty much one shot a thor at this point i i can't believe he's still going thor's i mean thor range lib is a composition i've been trying to use but he's only got four libs the idea is the lib zone out the investors and you emp the vipers and your thor's kill everything and this is really good in in theory in praxis it doesn't work so well ah my god can you get a one oh got a decent fungal how many investors are left in there guys eight there's eight infesters underneath there are eight investors underneath right now oh he's kept four in reserve as well one brood lord falls great parasitic bomb juicy juicy parasitic bomb maru's so quick to respond it doesn't do too much this forces him back for a moment and guys we're going to check in in the units lost up there is a 15 000 resources advantage right now for maru in the united states so it's very important that several either controls these two bases and mines them or trades better now i have seen solar many times trade better than the terran in late game with brewboard and fester i know cyril can do it as well but cerro does not practice it as much as solar even solar doesn't really like to play it because it's a very slow grindy sort of game and he does tend to get his whole army nuked right after he's basically secured the win now i doubt that's going to happen to several here cyril is not solar he is not cursed uh you didn't hear from me guys i'm pretty sure soul is cursed i love solo he's such a chad but i think he might be anyways oh big fungaloo big bungalow big fungaloo oh but he's not able to get the kinect and the finish on him he only gets a few of those ghosts a bunch of the investors getting here notice he rotates cyril the chad gamer that he is he only keeps a few investors on a hotkey and the rest in reserve i've been talking about this for a while now you only ever need about four or five maximum six investors on a control group the number of times we see people put 13 infesters together and get them all hit by one emp cyril is so effing smart he's actually made the adjustment that nobody else made he just said look i will i do make mistakes in late game i will just leave some investors behind protos have done this for years without my templar against taran emp why don't we learn from the race that has a lot more practice playing against ghosts with spell casters oh this is a crazy fight there's no no blinding cloud though no blinding cloud man okay he gets one blinding cloud but it doesn't get all of the thor's i think he's one shotting some of these thoughts though right the brood lords are getting some pretty brutal volleys off the problem there is like 20 brood lords just shot one hell back and obviously the hell that dies but then all the brood lords just all the broodlings died everything else you see he keeps one shotting the same unit which is kind of like sometimes there's an advantage doing something that viper runs forward and gets one shot at 11 range from those 250 millimeter punisher cannons those big big thaws have pulled out those giant cannons on their shoulders will they be able to land there's a parasitic bomb goes down not a single mural or blinding cloud able to land here and that is an absolute destruction cyril walks his spell casters into live zones and emps and without the spellcaster support the brood lords get absolutely savaged by the thor's the snipes backing up the thor's make it even more brutal and that there was a devastating engagement we said it was 15 000 resource advantage guess what 21 000 now that's an extra six thousand resources of value from maru cereal wanting to defend this base just got baited into taking the game losing fight he's gonna have one remax in him but unless he takes in here perfect and he's remaxing on lurkers wrong composition that will not do i know thor's are kind of good versus brood lords but i guarantee you if he migrated that better that would have been okay cerro went for a lazy engagement he lost patience and i think he's a little triggered in this game because he was so far ahead earlier he's corrupted he's just throwing away his corrupters right now oh my god maru maru was dead in this game and you know what guys maru and cyril dark to in this year dark these gods of the game are so famous because they always make comebacks but they don't do it against each other and this is the rare case where maru has resurrected himself as i say that he walks his army into a choke point and cyril just absolutely bangs this out of that army oh my lord don't walk your whole army into a choke point of slow zone that there maru literally won the game and then he may have just thrown the game uh there's not much mining he's got still this mining base so maybe he's okay because cyril's out of mining cyril needs to win with this army and the problem he has he's got no anti-air right now his corrupters are coming back he's trying to build more to kill the liberators he's got to go around and engage the siege though he cannot engage this front on snipe pops a lurker the liberator is doing good his army's getting clumped up he gets a great fungal from behind but the pick up into the medevacs and even though the libs and the tanks are getting taken out cyril needs to win with this army and he will get rid of the mining on this base at the very least i wouldn't mind him borrowing just some of the lurkers oh their cvs get absolutely bashed four or five mineral patches in the top left about a thousand minerals maybe two thousand spread across those base being retaken in the north base mining in the south several double the army supply right now dude maru won the game and then he threw the game and now it's it's it's a lead on the army for cerro but it's a it should be a lead on the income for mario the moment he lands this he's got way more mining he's got more suvs now he doesn't really have mules remember he's only got i'm blind seven orbitals oh he's got plenty of scans he's got plenty of scans and mules never mind guys so that lurker did go down this base is under siege cyril he does not want to lose that base but he might have to his investors creeping their way forward he wants some cheeky fungals he wants some cheeky he's gonna go for some murals murals on the tanks he takes two of the tanks and they start firing on their own units oh the worker plus neural assault a chad maneuver here for sarah then he kills a command center he oh he leaves a tank one of his tanks that he stole because he doesn't want to get all of his lurkers sniped on the way out and cyril taking some chad fights right here he's got one more investor there he killed the command center maru trying to float a new command center down to the bottom he should just use the one that's right next to it not the right command senator lift buddy meanwhile cerro still horny he still wants to finish this game he's got a base mining in the top he gets a bunch of ghosts there the corrupters are hot on the tail but four ghosts managed to fairly evacuate and those ghosts are his lifeline right now cerro getting sick pick-offs left right and center he can deny this bottom base he wins this game 46 army supply for maru 64 for several cyril not expected to trade efficiently with these compositions but he's finding a way and he's got a base mining he's got 700 gas in the bank so it's mostly zerglings he'll be building once that gets exhausted but he's retaking a hatchery in the bottom and you know what guys maru's top base is dry he's got 300 500 minerals left this base is his only mineral income i say only weight and 65 minerals there he's got almost nothing left there's a creepy infested down the bottom he has to keep building missile turrets so the investors will get him this is a good spready of tanks though it's a good spreading the investor gets caught coming in for the flank and this might be the fight that maru was waiting for where's the zergling support it does not exist the limit does not exist says lindsay lohan and cyril unfortunately just lost the core of his army ah a i think he might have i don't know oh he's gonna lose the bottom base as well what even is this game maru died at the seven and a half minute mark of this game remember that he died at the seven and a half minute mark he died it's 32 minutes in and they're neck and neck in army supply in workers supply there are still three lurkers seven corrupters two investors i i don't even know maru could still lose cyril still has a chance of winning because he's got a freshie he's got two mineral patches but this base here i think might just have a bit too much minerals with the mules because that income [Music] every terran player looks at those meals and he's just licking his lips making creepy mouth noises like hannibal lecter lurking bane coming on fourth that bailey's going to try and roll into the mineral line but it's a beautiful spready maru with his gymnastics walks a goddamn tight rope from being literally dead literally literally dead to coming back with a 20 000 resource advantage i i don't in the units lost i don't even know he takes a three to two lead we have to go to the next map what the oh right a little bit of a mess up for him in that last game a slip up and he did end up getting slapped in the late game still think he had absolutely every chance to win that game but a bit of impatience with the late game brood lord and festive fight walking his investors into the libs and some brilliant emps of course just stopping him in his tracks this is several now what was really impressive about maru there is he kind of slowly inch that push forward in the north in the late game other than the amazing comeback up to that point he slowly inched that army forward and then the moment he saw cyril committing i think it was a bit too obvious that sarah was committing to the fight and you just see him drop he just dropped the emps all over everything man he was like no no no no no no spell casters for you and i think that's got to be a bit of a brain breaker for cereal because this could be 3-2 in his favor he he set himself up for the victory he played a fantastic early game but there was that that first big follow-up attack with lurkers on the bottom into a beautiful line of tanks and his army was in a big old blob and we saw just how bad that attack angle in the south of blackburn can be that that choke point you know he was coming right off the face of that evil man in the bottom of that map and dude his lurkers got smashed his ling bane got smashed and i think a few too many times having his unit comp maybe a little a little out of balance but more importantly i think he just left the gold base alone for far too long maru had a single tank and a single planetary at a gold base up against a maxed out several who had tons of lurkers with range and it really would have been just the decision to move even half of his army up there earlier would have been a dominating victory in that last game he was so far ahead in supply it didn't need to be perfect play from cerro but he needed to utilize that advantage at that moment and that was well not even that moment at that window and it was a pretty large window but trying to jump through that window somehow cyril smashed into the wall missed the window completely and maru fought his way back into that game and i think that gives you a lot of momentum making a comeback like that is absolutely wild it is just a huge thing especially against sarah especially in a grand finals because as maru you're like i had no business winning that game holy crap i mean it really is going to boil your spirits it's going to going to lift you up a little bit while cyril is going to go i should freaking won that game and he was probably saying that from 10 13 minutes in how have i not won yet what the screw black burn screw taran maru's too strong keeping a cool calm collected view after you let such a position slip away most players can't do it most players cannot do it see if maru can or sarah can sorry got the command center there going down quick third cc we're going to see a very standard maybe final game here it's kind of funny because it feels like maru does not have a lot of confidence in being able to beat zergs with super straight up play in the mid game like he very rarely kills someone in the mid game unless it's rogue that's because i just feel like rogue is not as solid under pressure as the other top zergs rogue might be plus 50 iq but is uh is calm under pressure not on the same level as the serol the reinos the darks these guys as the character just cheering things on kirk i'm a carrock what i do love this animal what do you guys think current tastes like do you think it just tastes like emu or uh or like ostrich or something like that has anyone ever eaten emu or ostrich i've never eaten either of those i imagine they'd be kind of turkey-ish but i don't know it's kind of a bigger animal maybe a bit more red than me oh two barracks follow up oh okay sorry i thought that was a starboard building it was a second barracks never mind morrow's doing the double barracks follow-up does definitely like that is eating emu an aussie thing i don't even know are there any aussies in the chat guys can we can we get a google can you is there another thing i've never eaten emu can you eat emu you definitely can't eat cassowary that would be messed up i think they're in are they endangered well they're just not very common but people in the chat can let us know if they've ever eaten you what it tasted like and is that actually a thing or nah chat says no you're not allowed to eating oh it was in the treaty after we lost the great emu war apparently they said you shall not eat our species and we will not destroy your civilization so we australia took one for the team there and now we live in maybe not harmony but pro prosperity you know it's with the prosperity pact it's it's okay it's all right lair bainling nest on the way third base as well beautiful rule of one gas and he's going to go double evo chamber there so it's going to be hydraling bane for cerrell and he's going to be dealing with that double marine drop remember i was talking um for those who watching live there was a game earlier where he hit kind of late because he lost some early marines i think was it no it was a pool first was it early i can't even remember it was this series guys we've been casting this for so long at this point holy crap those who've stuck around from start to finish thank you for making it here especially if you've done it in one sitting let me know i think that's pretty rare for anyone on youtube at least i mean obviously on twitch if you're here the whole time you're here the whole time um but yeah that's going to hit 5 45 this is much better than the previous two on one time we saw from mario after that the pool first got him oh he misses the active tumor every terran hates this ah just and that can just re-spread over there if it wants all down here so nice nice and annoying there four maru fourth base is on the way for several now he's being very slow on macro hatches he's gonna go straight for hydroden five gas play and where are these upgrades so we've got 65 seconds along first 30 seconds long so a 30 second lead for maru in the upgrades where's those extra two barracks maru they're kind of late at this point buddy mario is pretty focused on his pressure and he's a little late on his fourth and fifth barracks and there we go they are going down at the third base right now means coming on forward good micro though i like the aliens to back it up gets a bunch of zerglings for just one marine you can now rotate into the main this one spark really guys if you ever play this map always spread creep in the main put a spore here or they can be very annoying dropping between this angle this forces them to commit way deeper and look at that that medevac takes a lot of damage almost goes down cyril calmly droning that fourth base now he's on 71 workers remember guys with five gas three bases is just 63 drones so 71 means he's got a half saturated fourth base if he goes another eight drones that's fully saturated at just 79 workers that's four mineral lines going it is so important to secure a fifth because about eight minutes 30 this mineral patch this one this one and this one are all going to run out at the same time so you'll need to transfer eight workers from the main down to the fifth base so you guys can actually a lot of people forget to transfer work because i always tell people don't look at the numbers don't look for the mineral patches running out just make it a set time if you do a fast expand build a zerg especially at similar timings for it for the other races eight minutes pull eight workers out of your main send to your fourth or fifth eleven and a half minutes eight workers off your natural so you just wanna leave eight workers there out to your fourth or fifth base as well so it's a good habit that you can build that makes things really solid for you in the long run fourth command center is finishing up nice and early second factories adding a reactor and up to eight barracks here is cerro is uh maru cereal he's starting his 2-2 the armory is really late maru forgot his upgrades for a long time and he hasn't really found any amazing trades obviously he's not losing units but he's not really slowing down cyril in any significant manner always being annoying here very annoying micro and by the way cyril's blocked himself from taking his own base there just spamming tumors down so bit of a mistake he needs to kill these two tumors to put a hatchery down here though we might not be planning on taking that for a long time so it doesn't matter just yet infestation bits there and that 30 second upgrade lead for maru it's gone guys he starts two two he's down 30 40 seconds 40 seconds now it's a big slip up there he starts a fifth commands and ammar is playing like him as i said maru is so good at late game and players are so bad at beating him there well he's just so good at winning at late game i should say he's not that bad at beating him it's just they're not able to match him maru is just leaning into his command centers this time so i think he wants to go straight into the iron bank i think he senses maybe that cyril's being a little more uh timid after that last game and he's not as worried about just getting overwhelmed but he's got almost nothing at home he's got three tanks a few held out some marauders and marines so who knows maybe there was a window for cyril to bust in sarah's going hive already dude that's sick he's going to be able to start 3-3 before terran oh this is a great position for cyril and he's yeah he's looking pretty fantastic the question is as always what are you going to do against a man who's building the iron bank this gives up momentum if he just goes hydra lingbane cyril wins he could just honestly swamp him with hydraling bane right now i actually think he could kill maru yeah i i do but he's not going for it i think he's just gonna go lurkers he's kind of splitting his army up but he should absolutely be looking to bust in and he's gonna kind of look for it now i have a bad feeling about this widow mind guys i'm a sorrow fan boy i love maru but i'm a several fanboy and i have a bad feeling about this widow mine there's no logical reason i just i feel bad things are gonna happen that's one hydra who cares that's fine oh i'm not a warlock thank god thought i could see into the future a sense to pro prophecy coming in i thought that widowman is going to kill 30 he's going super lurker focused against the guy who's already going up to five base ghost this is kind of for cereal i think lurkers are the last thing you want here against maru because he goes straight to late game so quick oh he gets some good bailing hits but he's taking some tank shots oh down here oh goodbye planetary does click the planetary i would love to see him chase those suvs though i think i think he could have got eight or ten more suvs problem for him there's a fifth base up losing that command then it doesn't matter maru does not care about that you needed to kill the army here as cyril not the economy and this honestly he's going nightest worm now i don't want to say this is a foregone conclusion but i want to say looking at how the last game went maru is in such a better position than that last game last game similar scenario similar attack and and maru was way down he was down like way more supply had no economy in this case mahru's already up to four orbital command centers he's already up to four orbital command centers with more building he's got multiple planetaries okay big lingbane hydrobus comes in he's gonna bust the wall down attacking into a bit of a choke point though he's trying to break the wall i mean he'll kill the tanks and and then he'll pull back there looks like maulings came in does get some of the suvs but the planetary finishes and that means there's a planetary there planetary there i do like the zergling burrow very nice he's going to try and knight us into the main base but missile turrets are already up maru is in full turtle mode and there's just this thing where i think it's partially because he's just so confident against lurkers and i really do think you can beat him with brood lord and faster it's a big micro dance and i honestly think that cyril the reason he's not doing it is he doesn't have to do that verse clem ma where is cyril's practice is from a couple guys hero marine and clem and they cannot do what maru's been doing in this series they're good late game they are not this good late game and as a result cereal can kill them with luck lingbane multi-prong can he do it versus maru though gets the liberator down the planetary gets bursted blows that up and he's killing a lot of command centers the the question is is it at a quick enough rate because the the terrain is still on four bases and he's like dude i will take these trades all day every time you have to blow up planetaries to kill a 550 resource structure i guess it's 700 resources because it's 150 minerals 150 gas on top of 400 but either way emp misses the viper is there the hydra lane brain coming in he wants to kill this army he's gotta deny that borrowed circling sticking the middle finger up in the air this guy wanted to burrow but the command center had already re-landed so this guy unfortunately not able to get through that one the borrowed guy down there forcing these units to stim down to the bottom right to clear that up very annoying good nuisance play there by several he tries to get the knights up in the back of the main he's gonna go for it changeling's coming in where is that knight is worm he didn't have a controller double double knight is what does it mean it's so beautiful man he's got he's got lurkers in it as well lots of lurkers loading in i think he gets one of these out and the ling bane gonna run at the front but zerglings gonna be defended by the ghosts and the second knight is barely unable to pop i'd love to see another double knight is here in a moment of course he's got to wait for that cooldown i'm going to select these nidus worms uh doesn't actually show on this overlay so never mind the bottom right base is sterile this this is honestly i think sarah is actually not trading too bad considering he is denying bases he's look at that just he's like goodbye gas goodbye at scv or two there we go and then there we go viking does clean up that overseer no more double knight display ghosts chasing him back cyril's going to add an infester i like it burrow plus a few investors potentially the secret to his success here he's been so good with those ambush festers oh snipey snipe sniper what are these ghosts doing bro oh my god he literally maru accidentally parked those ghosts there guys he did not realize that was a real big mistake from maru which he luckily got away with okay here we go look at ling bane he's gonna come in hydra's vipers as well abducting a few of these liberators these are good value trades yeah but he's got to pull back to his lurkers which oh doesn't get all of those a few snipes do come down picking off some of his units very nice play here from maru he's got a lovely upgrade tab with the 333 coming in carapace plus three has done for the zerg plus two range coming in as well does not have that plus three melee but doesn't really need it too urgently lurk is coming on for with the hydra bane coming on in he does have a full energy viper there could abduct that liberator get rid of those two would be a nice way of opening things up but a planetary in the bottom right how many orbitals do we have guys still only four he has not got the iron bank maru in survival mode but as he maxes out he says oh i have minerals sweet command center goes down he should be dropping three or four more of those with that big bank that he's got you can see the scan there the lurk is dancing ling bane hydra viper on the left but the tanks are laid the investor does see this army coming oh i don't think he can get the unborrowed kenny he's gonna maybe go for it but he doesn't have the numbers there's no way he can break that position the barracks starting to burn there zergling though not really going to get too much done maru just calmly gets an suv to repair the barracks no shit's given oh hydra lingbane that investor almost gets blasted but not quite and he's gonna go right back up there there's an accident to pull that infester away quite clearly lurkers on the right side do come in but the snipes and the libs say get wrecked that unit's lost tab get nasty at this point cerro running around with his lurker ling bane viper he's not finding a way in i honestly feel the lurkers are completely worthless in this situation i actually really think i the only thing i think they're good for is killing a planetary but bailings that have already been doing that job so they're just doubling up on the same job i think he needs to go pure lingbane hydro pfeiffer if he wants to stay in the mid game or he's got to go brood lord in faster late game but the longer he's staying on lurkers i mean the more useless they are they lag behind this army they're not doing anything double spire coming up in the back of the natural there got bases coming down drones in the top left as well look he's gonna run down the left side still some tanks layered though so many tanks man and he can just lift that orbital he's gonna try and get on the tanks i mean he'll get rid of one of them okay so he will evacuate this base runs through the middle at the same time he does get a few tanks with the zerglings nicely done unfortunately for him though he loses a hatchery on the right side at the same moment does he have an investor in the back no he does not anymore he's gonna get rid of some of the barracks that's kind of nice there are only eight barracks right now so getting some of those down would be really sick it's gonna pull back realizing it's only a matter of time till the ghosts come in and get on top of him seven suvs went down somewhere i guess that was all over here circling's on the right side going to try and dart on in could grab that missile turret not a bad pick off there does set that one on fire it will burn down so everything's going to fall and the double spire the pathogen glands that's right it's time for investor brood lord baby it's it's the only way to play against this sort of style in the mega lake game the tanks will become a very weak unit once you get that out but he's already on his way to two one one two air upgrades no doubt fusion core and range limbs will be coming up next it's just a handful of bio units even if a few marines and marauders go down maru doesn't really care too much his orbital count up to five orbitals right now it's got two more commands and has just finished there another one building over here starting reward forward on this map the units lost to 10 000 resources difference right now still got a lot of lurking bane does several so he's got to look to kind of trade this off so we can replace it with better units and look at that beautiful parasitic bomb there does kill quite a few of those air units uh liberator and medevac gets the other lives quite low he's trying to fight as best he can as cyril he's getting pushed back he's just going to try and bleed out some of these basic units replace them where are his investors he's got three investors two vipers i'd like to see a few more investors mixed in but i think he feels he needs the brood lords to stop this push first and foremost i think maru realizes what he's going up against now when are those brood lords gonna morph i guess that greatest buyer just finished we'll see them off momentarily and there we go more from cyril he's got supply free to build at least a few it's time son there we go seven brood lords going down he's gonna get things started at the very least he's got queens on the right lingbane lurker on the left side and he will get a few of those marauders but takes a big tank folly few lings on the left side we'll get that siege tank nicely done adrenal plus two zerglings of course trading pretty decently against siege tanks on their own hatchery goes down in the top left siege tank sieging the gases over here as well this is a problem for cereal he can't afford to lose any more bases right now losing that base on the left already hurts he's got a big bank though so this is not a last-ditch brood lord transition this is i'm gonna go to brood lords much earlier and i'm actually gonna have a bank to work with problem for him maru also has that bank maru's starting thoughts he's starting librarians he's starting plus two air attack so he's got all of these tools that'll help him a lot in the later stages and brood lords are gonna move to the right side along with the infested viper gonna try and pick away at these siege tanks of course maru also has to start phasing his units out get rid of some of the tanks some of the marines and marauders potentially got to get maybe 10 15 suvs thrown away if he gets a few more orbitals he's up to seven orbitals the iron bank is almost there at this stage cancels a hatch there cancels or even kills a hatchery on the right side siege tank shoots the queens the queen say get out of here you they could kill that liberator if they choose to the brood lord count is growing we're at 11 brood lords 12 on the way i remember keeping some bailings ready so if the ghosts try to jump on you can be effective just to force those ghosts to run away but what you're going to see if we see this late game micro improved from blackburn cyril cannot just grab his whole army and a move it unless he's already landed a fungal if he's already caught all the ghosts with fungal he can do that but otherwise he's just gonna make himself easy targets as he moves forward he'll get emp'd um it's hard for maru to attack into cyril and land emps but if he's just defending against a big thrust a bit of an ogre move which is what sarah kind of went for on blackburn moon make a move now and drop spells on you and maru just dropped defensive emps and the spellcasters of cyril walked into them the investors walked into the liberators got snipes coming down on the brood lords there good transfusers though not a single brood lord dice coming up on the left side and cyril should definitely be denying this base maru i think realizes already dead i'm surprised he doesn't just make an orbital just give up on it he's like yeah this will buy some time sarah moving some spores forward very cute he's look at the way he's got a single investor up front so he's like look if those ghosts come we'll do it and yeah nice cancel in the planetary a second before it finishes lifts that off so this game could go in many different ways i've talked about how brew lord investor is one of the elite compositions and i feel that while taran technically can beat it it and zerg can technically beat the go slim it really just comes down to the engagements in the micro on both sides and i i don't think any player is favored here and this place was like oh off pig obviously nukes and emps are better because you can scare and see everything and then there's tarantulas like no pigment fungus is literally the most broken thing in the world and you know and then there's a few people like well let's actually see who's the better player because i'm absolutely convinced it's the better player who wins this scenario i've i told you guys i've seen solar the best brood lord investor player in the world beat maru beat beyond beat these guys in late game brutal investor be way more efficient than them and it's a slow grind but over time he just breaks them down and he just wins every fight and you're like oh it's so sick to watch can cereal do that i don't know man he loses a hatchery there it's not the most important there's no point even replacing it you can just long distance mind those minerals this this game is about efficiency at this point guys it's not about anything else now banelings and hydra's kind of struggling to be efficient against these bloody marauders but obviously you can see maru wants to throw these units away he's like dude just take him just take him mate i don't actually want to keep these anymore i'm trying to move the spores forward very useful so spores help defend from libs and at this stage of the game with this much bank i would actually like to see cyril invest in more sport rulers he's got a few across the map i'd like to see a lot of them and him re-spreading his creep because notice maru realizes if he can just secure these places with planetaries and turrets he can deny some of these bases and when you're facing off next to each other especially with some nukes potentially coming in we've got one nuke already loaded up in the ghost academy you can start to just push him back slowly with nukes so as the zerg you want to get your spores up as far forward as possible so you've got room to pull back and that's a lot of full energy ghosts that is did he just smite one of those ghosts uh one of those change things i mean he's running for where's the where's the investors oh he gets one snipe off sarah a little clumped on those investors you really want to spread those a little more if you can oh we mps three of those investors very nice very nicely actually i think there's only one sorry there's only one investor that got hit there we've got some queens as well low on energy there after their transfuses now ghost lib tank thor this is such a complicated convoluted army i don't know how mario uses it so well he's made the medevac boost upgrade because why the heck not he's got neo steel armor he's got high sec auto tracking so that's turret and planetary range it's building armor and bunker uh capacity it's all the rare upgrades you only see in the end game and at this point they both have gigantic banks but maru wants to push and this sort of push can be hard to stop the brood lords are out of position he doesn't have many spores backing this up remember if mario ever shoves on top of him and you don't have enough spores what's your auntie to actually kill the libs two corrupters five hydras some queens these are not great units guys suvs throwing their lives away oh ling ling run by going after the infrastructure that's very nice he gets one of the orbitals still 10 orbitals left behind that though so i'm not sure maru cares too much he could actually run in the base right now maru's main is wide open deserving run by just killing infrastructure can be super efficient in late game you do need a lot of supply for it though supply is not what cyril has right now and watch out for this oh my god okay see the way the liberators are to die in a sport crawlers one of them goes down just to this pause it's all about the spell casters now can cereal land these spells he gets a fungal doesn't hit any ghosts there is a microbial shroud there so that his investors and queens don't die as fast as the liberators it's very cute i haven't seen that it used in this matchup before normally used against protons but it does help against those liberators halves those concord cannons from what's going to be 90 damage to 45 damage once that plus three kicks in queen's going in and out another liberator does get taken out a few more spores behind this would be brilliant he needs to get a brood lord roll off but he needs investors the investors are too far behind he could get sniped here he gets one volley off with just a few of them and a nuke i didn't even hear the nuke alert i had no idea that was coming in holy crap there's too much going on right now um does avoid it though does sarah the brew lords gonna be launching down the spores and queens taking out these units the brood lords are throwing forward volleys and they're killing the thaws the thor front line going down a bunch of the vikings fall as well great transfuses landing that there was a delicious engagement for cereal and cereal guess what he's only down three six about six seven thousand resources right now seven thousand resources behind that was a very good fight for him that's the sort of fight you want maru was the one who over committed forward it wasn't a crazy dive like cyril did on blackburn but it was enough to be a problem now look at this mario is just looking for pick offs he's like sweet of course you're slipping he grabs two queens but he loses a ghost that's probably a good trade for cerro i don't think you mind losing a queen or two cyril should probably replace them though because if you're playing a long slow term efficiency the queens in the last fight with their transfusers across the brood lords were huge and they only cost you minerals if you keep just trading these fancy units obviously you're going to run out of gas way before minerals you end up with thousands and thousands of minerals left over and and it's a big problem so i wouldn't mind him adding just four or five more queens in there keep six queens alive at all time of course he has 101 lava and they are spotted lava they are dalmatian lava at least that's all i like to imagine um anyways oh big fungal maru's going to dig down he does click on the investors and kills a few of them with his tanks but he just lost a bunch of stuff now there's a lot of thoughts coming in unless he can get a blinding cloud i don't think cyril can take this fight where's the blinding cloud he needs it he needs that binding cloud the ghosts are kind of forced back he goes parasitic bomb i don't know if that's the way to do it is it so it's so many broods it's so many broods that it might just be okay oh he goes for another big fungal there's a new coming down on his army right now will he be able to stop it more fungals no blinding clouds that was the big missing detail here and it's why he lost so many guys but he does kill the ghost and he only lost a few of these brood lords he's maroon up oh my god only 4 000 units between them now and that is huge cheryl is winning these fights i talked about how i can never make the thor the thor composition work i sometimes can with the libs if i can totally zone them out but if they use vipers and infesters then you need to emp the vipers while libs zone the investors and pushing through spores near impossible i i'm looking at this and i'm going well maru's sticking with thor lib he thinks thor lib is the answer i mean he was one of the guys who did this in like early legacy verse someone thor lib ghost and he made it look broken but people were much worse back then they didn't know how to use dual spell casters the way cyril is using them and cyril yeah he's looking fantastic i mean look at units lost out he's lost three brood lords eight infest is one viper and how many thoughts he killed nine thor's eleven ghosts ten liberators so in this kind of late game unit composition it really feels like cyril's been trading off a few of his weaker units a few investors going down and maru's been losing a lot of big valuable guys now there's no spores back here and that's a problem i told you guys he's going to need spores across the whole map because if maru pushes away from the spores that's where you go wait a second where's sarah's anti-air how does he kill liberators guys he can't he can't kill liberators so maru can try and go kill his tech and his drones now now obviously the drones aren't the most important they're all on the left side but i think cyril is going to need to rebuild his tech to be honest because i don't know how he gets on top of that how does he go around to deal with that so he's going to send his own lurker being hydra and go ah well you kill my production and he should really go up the production but you know what he sees mario react and he immediately pulls back very mature decision maru does not want to lose his production mario's like ah not worth it pull home ah not worth it pull home okay oh this is getting really weird now i don't know if you want to fight across this gap as cyril maybe you do maybe you don't watch out for the emp on the left big fungal lands on the goose but the hell bats are guarding them the thor's landing great hits from the right side the viper is unable to land their blinding clouds that's too many thor's unable to take that fight where is the anti-air damage a few corrupters and spores doing what they can it's not as much as easy like and remember he doesn't have transfuses a lot of these brood lords damaged from earlier detect that he's started rebuilding going down great scans taking out a bunch of those investors and if you lose the investors and the ghosts become scary but there's only five ghosts it's mostly thor lib right now and these lips are taking a lot of damage from the spark rollers a lot of them weak i think a parasitic bomb would not be a bad move at this point i think it might be time for that parasitic bomb either that or a big blinding cloud bailings are gonna run in from the right side they're not gonna do anything lurker hydra's starting to clear out some of the middle uh buildings and infrastructure here we go he's going for it parasitic bomb goes down as does fungals a big brood lord wave takes out a thor a couple of limbs do fall there but how many brood lords are left 17 and remember he does not have blinding cloud now those vipers are almost out of energy a big newt getting launched on top of his army now cerro does not want to lose this base it's his most important base he throws down a fungal he may hit the new king ghost but it does not kill or interrupt that nuke no no no no no no no no no he gets clipped a few brood lords and a bunch of drones go down he stayed just a second too long he gets clipped by the nuke he's at the same time on top of the production lurkers are killing thor's rather nicely as are the hydras and cereal still has big bank and remember his production did not die losing this base sucks firm but he's actually trading pretty well over here the thor's trying to dodge some lurker spines no it's not it just doesn't have any vision and a bunch of lurkers uh do go down but they kill a whole bunch of thor's i think it's a decent trade meanwhile the army still running around here thought maru now maru's back ahead 9 000 resources those last fights killing all the drones the spores has really a hatchery in the infestation pit it's added a lot more to his value there's still plenty of gas in the bank though for cyril but where are the queens this is where i said it earlier guys in this long slow term battle you need queens you got to keep building queens because these brood lords he's got like 25 but they're all like one or two thor shots from death and that's a big problem thor's right now doing 47 damage verse massive from a whopping 11 range the brood lord only has 10 range it does 24 damage which is of course a big problem for cerro now he's got one random swarm host in here he says i'll throw my babies for the cause yeah call me zergism let's go i don't know why it's commun's ergism it is apparently i don't i think no anyway broodlords investors corrupters shit's going crazy big army it's mass thor mass thor is not that good if it gets hit by neural but he's got 13 ghosts backing it up and there's only two vipers and they're all damaged they're all like one or two shots from death yeah dude this is a big problem investors get caught rallying out oh no the brood lords need time to heal he transfuses one of them i mean if he can fight in a choke point i think cyril can do this he loses one two one two two brood lords almost lost a third one there he's lost a total of 13 in this game another brood lord just gets snapped there at the edge of range and where's the blinding cloud fungal combo emp lands on the investors he goes to the blinding club a massive zerglings comes in with the brew lords the bailings trying to find the ghost perfect starter step on the ghost to avoid the worst of it how are these thoughts still alive that was a beautiful engagement sarah's got to pull back he's got to pull back he's lost a bunch of his investors his brood lords his vipers okay he's going to try and keep fighting these one at a time but remember he's gonna trade a brood lord each time he does that probably more fungals coming in interrupting the snipes kills a ghost there at maximum range my one of my hands is on my head right now i am holding my head in my hands literally because this is such an intense game six and remember if cyril could bring this back they could have a game seven and that if there's ever a moment worthy of a testy pop i think it's this game right here this base is still so fresh i can't believe this base is still so fresh feels like sarah was so focused on the micro maybe that one wasn't saturated um maru is still mining over there and over oh he's not mining that base properly either guys transfer your workers to the fresh bases what are you doing okay he's got workers going to the left side of the map you've got a full base there i mean it is more important to take the middle of the map off your opponent like i've said right transfer your workers down there i talk about it a lot but um it's several's out cyril's out of money right now he's got no income emps land on the investors those investors he's got four more fungals maybe five in total in there he does he's got two vipers in the back is it gonna be enough though because those doors have such extreme range and that's what's so scary the lings are so good versus the thor's he's up in army supplies cyril if he takes the right fight he can still win this but not like that no no no no no cyril taking a god-awful fight where are the blinding clouds why are the blinding clouds so late cyril got his hotkeys messed up i guarantee you cyril got his hot keys messed up there guys yeah he gets some murals off and still ends up clearing the army but that was an awful engagement for cerro i do think cyril has technically the better army here but he's got to manage so many different pieces and i think he screwed the pooch there guys look at the supply remember maru's mining out both middle bases there's no mining left for cereal on his 26 workers he's got two mineral patches there this base will come back up but there's seven thor's building at a time maru seven thor's blue flame hell bats to burn up the broodlings so they don't do much damage and the ghosts kicking ass cereal was up ten supply in army supply in that last fight but he really messed it up i do think he got a bit over riga his vipers were a bit too far behind and he only dropped one blinding cloud all battle it should have been at least two or three uh once you your brood lords do want to go in first to make sure they take the the thor's first volley because otherwise your vipers might get shot down before they throw their spells out if they go in first um just due to the long range but it's it's a problem man if you don't get those blinding clouds down the thor's just do so much damage man three armor versus 47 damage you're doing 44 damage a shot against 225 hit points you guys can do the maths in the comments section on how many thor shots i think it's about six thor shots to kill a brood lord not that many and look how fast they shoot with this this this modern 250 millimeter punisher cannon oh damn this is the last base he's got to defend it but he just can't mate he's out numbered he's out gun dmp's landing on the investors and at the end of the day maru is the late game god he is the king he's on a map pool he does not like he is dead in game five he turns it around and wins he is absolutely dead in that in that previous game and yet he brings it back anyway and that's what i call a chad gamer ah maru an absolute beast of legend and i want to watch that previous fight one more time i just want to point out that i think he messed up his control group cyril did here because look he kind of catches this army a little unawares starts to fight with a fungal he pulls back he's like gather it up boys but his vipers are a bit far away and his brood lords aren't all together he needs to have all of his brood lords stacked together so a lot of his brood lords are not going to be fighting so that's a problem right he comes forward and he's like nah it let's go kind of thing and it's like where are those vipers where are those blinding it's okay we're gonna see it in a moment let's watch this fight one more time before we finish it up so the brood lords are going in at this point you can tell he's 100 committed he's like go because he's attacking into the center of the thought so this is already a super dangerous fight now why is this such a dangerous fight guys because the thor's actually have a decent battle line where a lot of them can shoot at once whereas if you were say over here with your brood lords it'd be much more confident to attack because you're only fighting two at a time the other ones are all stuck behind each other and they have to kind of pile around and get down here to fight you whereas in this case you know you're walking into like maybe at least five probably six thor's one two three four five six thor's all shooting at once now the other thing is the viper is very far behind but i think the reason he went is because he saw the ghosts were exposed and he said oh if my lings get on the ghosts he can't emp he can't like you know emp me very well and we can land the spells but the viper is coming kind of late and it's like okay where's where's the mural because he could have already started that and then blinding cloud comes in only one now maybe he didn't have enough viper energy there he does end up getting two murals off you can imagine if those murals or those blinding clouds were even a second faster keeps a lot more brute lords alive here and it makes a pretty big diff nonetheless guys amazing late game for both players this was a truly glorious way to finish it and what an epic epic series 44 brood lords 19 investors three vipers for 25 ghosts 36 thor's and 22 liberators in this late game beautiful play from both sides ggs maru is the king of battles champion and not just that guys he is unashamedly easily the best player in the world right now this cements an absolutely incredible hot streak where maru is there i mean you want to say he's the greatest of all time right now it is really hard to argue that point because the big argument against it has been that he drops the ball in online tournaments and then he drops the ball in international tournaments and he drops the ball in world championships the only one of those arguments that is a lot that is still alive after this month of dominance this two three months of online international dominance the only argument is that he still hasn't brought it to a world championship the moment maru wins a world championship or even gets to a finals of one which you don't think he's ever done before then it's beyond undisputed at that point potentially the greatest player of all time and one of the greatest performances in this series of all time maru is your king of battles champion gg goes

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Length: 144min 8sec (8648 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 06 2021