StarCraft 2: Dark's DRONE RUSH in the Finals! (Best-of-5)

welcome back to another high level Metro of Starcraft 2. what I've got for you today is the grand finals of the eso open cup number 176 for the South Korean server spawning right here in the bottom left-hand corner of game number one that takes place on the map altitude well it's game number one taking place on the map now it's not like we're gonna have multiple games on the map altitude play right here with the red throttles probes we have none other than Creator his opponent in the opposite corner with the blue zerk drones I mean you can already recognize him right there from that batch spinning around on the main Hatchery we're looking inside of the main base of dark alrighty so dark vs Creator in a dark not going for the Eric opener okay I was wondering about that so over the last week or so it seems like most of the Zerg players at this level of play have been practicing that extractor trick into 15 Hatchery style I've seen more and more players do it but apparently dark I mean this guy is a bit of a Starcraft Boomer okay he's been playing the game for a very long time he actually still managed to sneak out the Metro because apparently the probe was heading on over to watch the third anyways maybe he's gonna be a little he's going to be a little bit uh yeah slower to adjust I don't know I I'm not even entirely sure what the economic difference is but honestly being able to make your natural in your preferred location is kind of nice right what are the problems you run into as a zerk player in Dessert versus Proto's matchup when you have your third base taken first so this hasn't happened in this game of course I mean it almost happened but anyways then the first couple of depths come across the map you can't actually get your zerk links from one base to the next very easily obviously the Queens I mean you have no creep connecting the natural the third domain and all of that is going to be yeah a bit later on into the game but especially with zerklings when they don't have their link speed upgrade it can be it can be really tricky to actually push back even just the very first produce unit that comes across obviously the oracles as well when they start roaming the map it can be very helpful to well have your bases connected with creep just so your Queens can maneuver around a little bit easier it's usually not the biggest of deals at this level of play these guys are very comfortable having a third base taken first but if there is a build where you can quite comfortably just take the Hatchery on the low ground that you prefer taking it's it's gonna be kind of nice obviously the main advantage of taking your third base first it's very map dependent but oftentimes say for example right here while dark had already taken this space he could probably put his very first creep tumor right about right over here compared to well right about right over here not a significant difference on altitude but on some maps when you're expending to watch your opponent it can actually help out quite a bit anyhow creator of course has really been stepping it up again over I want to say like the last half year I'm excited to find out exactly what he's going for in this particular Series so far I mean we are on altitude this is probably the most boring map in the current Maple at least I'm I honestly have never been a big fan especially with the team liquid map contest we had a lot of really good maps and then uh yeah we had altitude okay now I I don't think it's a bat map but I do think there were better maps in the Team Liquid map contest that we probably should have had on the ladder instead I think they probably just wanted a really large map with a funny little you know gold base situation or at least you know a large map with a little bit of spice I'm just not convinced that you know this is the best that you know we can produce all right a couple of depths do get in here all right so far uh both of them get killed that's actually kind of shaky this is not particularly great the problem is normally protels will now use those adepts to take a third base but yeah you're gonna either have to keep the Oracle at home which sucks or you're gonna have to delay your third base I'm not exactly sure what the best option is either way for now Creator is gonna go into a void raid I think you're better off avoiding those smash like no sorry um Oracle into Voit Ray is never really a situation you want to find yourself in unless you absolutely need it I think in this case the reason why we're going for a Voit Ray is to snipe a couple overlords and to push back those links so we can eventually take a third base but now of course making all of those zerk links not a yeah not unnecessarily great start here for uh for dark either if you look right now at the worker count sure he's been outplaying his opponent a little bit right sniping does the depths is nice delaying the third base is nice as well but worker wise creator has been looking really solid he's decided to take the gases here in the natural a little bit quicker which is kind of neat four and a half minutes or so on that third Nexus which you know if you would have shown me this like six years ago I would have told you yo that third base is so quick uh in the current matter of stock for F2 this is considered to be very late okay once again though pretty good trades right here yeah no perfect positioning right here on these produce units they have to be tucked in between the pylon and the Nexus and now the service area is uh well very nice right here for dessert bile is gonna go down um that void Ray is nowhere to be seen he's gonna try and get a stasis work down but dark is on top of that as well okay so far this series is not looking all too hot right here for Creator honestly the only thing he's really good going for himself here is the work account yeah the worker count is really good for him but the problem is he's playing against the zerk who can power out many of those drones all in one go alrighty so fantastic start right here for dark but like I said this map is absolutely humongous so what exactly do you do as a as a follow-up right if you want to go for a roach Bush your units are just simply going to take like an extra five seconds to get across the map and oftentimes that's all you really need to get another round of defensive unit attack so it's a hydrogen darkest decided to skip the bailing Nest he skipped the roach war and he's going straight hydrogen what in the world are we gonna do with a straight hydrogen we don't have an EVO chamber we have none of that we have five gas remember um some of you might recall this remember about an e-laser won that tournament back in the day off of like this was a Oracle goes down by the way this was like a I think it was like 51 drone five gas Hydra Olin it reminds me a little bit of that now he is gonna finish drowning here for full three base saturation and I do believe he's gonna be making a fourth Hatchery here as well the big difference of course between the olden days of Hydra attacks and well 2023 and honestly 2021 2022 2020 I think even anyways The Hider upgrades are now no longer combined so once upon a time you just had a single research in the hydrogen and it gave you both speed as well as range for your hydras Now Dave uh well when Starcraft 2 first began they had those upgrades split up as well at some point they matched them together and then they split them off in two upgrades once again I feel like that makes it very difficult for the zerk to actually pull off an attack like that because right now Brothers is ready to go for a bit of a move out uh is there a prism uh there is a prism okay yeah it's right over here xerclins do try to get on top of this good little bit of juggling though from our produce player yeah how in the world are you gonna defend this with a bunch of hydras that are well maybe you gotta have a ranged upgrade but they're not gonna have well their speed yet so the speed upgrade of course did get improved recently lovely little circling counter attack though sometimes the best defense is the offense dark once again showing us that uh oftentimes even if you're in a really dire scenario and you're desperately trying to defend going for a counter attack is still the right goal but this is honestly are in a pretty good spot yeah he sees these hydras coming in for a mile away so I really like the idea of going for a robo Bay over here into a Oh I thought for a second it was a third row before no a second Robo facility here too generally what you do against uh well this type of army colossai are absolutely amazing colossa ideal bonus damage against light units and it turns out both hydras and circlings are light so as long as you see this coming getting the big laser giraffes out is gonna be super new super good super good dude super dude anyways prism thinking about going into the main base fair enough he needs to buy time though does colossi are expensive and take a long time to produce Spire here on the back of this as well so probably into corrupter or something like that to snipe those units prism into main base not control properly charged not done yet eat or not even started still though a little bit annoying here creator also trying to show us that the best defense is the offense and dark is going for this up more economy I I dunk I'm a huge fan of this those zealots are actually those still being super obnoxious now the Colossus is out Colossus number two is going to be coming out three is on the production tab as well all right eventually reinforcing units are going to be able to push back those zealots but if we had an extra warping over there it would have been really sick so far by the way no unit that costs any gas has been lost here for dessert which is kind of interesting he's got 30 hydras eight mutas are coming up okay um I'm pretty sure this is not a strategy that you want to copy in your own games okay if you're if you're watching this match right now you're like okay this is what I want to do as a zerk I mean be my guest you can do whatever you like but I if your goal is winning games I don't know if this is the best way to do it what's wrong with roaches roach is a pretty good news man they're better than uh Ling Ling Hydra actually it's just hydros right now there are still 18 zerkings out but 30 hydras eight mutas are going across the map but obviously at this point well we've got ourselves a good amount of Gateway units out the fourth Hatchery is just simply gonna get destroyed muras will go into the main base Twilight Council was late because of the second Robo in a robo Bay okay one pile on here to find them and in the darkness bind them so we have a cold cave being set up we've got Spore crawlers over here sport crawlers can deal with colossae but the Colossal are going back home fourth Nexus coming up right now this is Korean Starcraft as I know it man I feel like especially the zerk though is playing a very unoptimal strategy but hey if the opponent starts making mistakes like that giving a stalker a Sentry and an immortal away for free suddenly life can become pretty good okay now we have corrupters on the back of this so corruptors are pretty good counters against colossi they used to be the standard counter in the early days of Starcraft 2. again I keep talking about the early days because apparently not only is dark a bit of a boomer uh adjusting uh you know his strategies maybe a bit slower than he should but also uh you know I I've been watching this game for 13 years now these days ever since the introduction of the Viper which is ages ago usually the Viper is considered to be a better counter against colossi than the corrupter because he can immediately disable the colossa right the corrupters will still need to they will still need to fire a couple of volleys and well it's just a more reliable choice now we're going into lurkers okay anyways I still like this position if her Creator but honestly it's mostly because of the zerk Eco if dark had like 80 drones here life would be pretty sweet for him you can see that uh creator also a little confused accidentally double popping the guardian Shield is this gonna go well for this sir I've got a feeling this entire Army from from our zerk is just gonna get demolished well I say that yeah the one void right from earlier also helping out yeah no I was right this Army is just getting absolutely demolished he just went in so confidently that I thought okay I must be wrong watching Dark Flay weekly tournaments like the one that well this is from right the ESL open cup compared to dark in the GSL code s it's entirely different you know that Meme with the growling dog and then the dog with the puppy eyes it feels like this is the dog with the puppy eyes over here okay and then in the GSR code s we've got growling dark anyways Creator now grabs himself a nice advantage but this game is not over yet one of the problems he's gonna run into here very soon is of course the lurkers so good Scott right there by creator he's gonna figure out that he is going up against lurker so you have two options either you start countering lurkers or you go right now and honestly I don't mind going right now he decides to split split up his army always a dangerous move I don't know if he's got a recall available again yeah he already does have it again uh off cooldown which is very important but he splits up all of his units there is a prism available that one is by itself there's another Nexus coming up on the left side of the map too but Creator trying to figure out where those lurkers are not turns out dark also uh figured out the magic of splitting up his army he's now just turtling up dark's like yeah okay my terrible attack didn't work time for me to Turtle up on four bases only time will tell whether or not only Olivera will tell uh sorry I'm in a bad mood today I went for a run earlier I feel great but anyways um only only time will tell whether or not we're actually gonna see if I just don't see how Forbe zerk is going to be able to beat five Bass Pros it seems to me that dark is only ever going to be able to backstab with a couple of circling run bites yeah he's gonna go for another Hatchery over here but the Proto's Army is looking really menacing he's going disrupters right now he's going into storm creator has been a little confused I think in this particular game but he's been doing doing yeah he's been doing an excellent job with his Tech Transitions and making sure he's in the right place at the right time splitting up his army too [Music] not forgetting about upgrades but eventually dark is arriving at a unicorn position that's very scary so I think Hyderabad lurker Viper is one of those base compositions that you can't really go wrong with as Zurich assuming you control it well and even though he took the most confusing path to get to that unicorn okay good catch over here he did arrive there I mean I say that he doesn't have viper he's just wait hold up he's just going 23 lurkers huh I really thought we were gonna get vipers here too because vipers are real good units guys usually whenever you see any sort of Robo Bay play and we've seen colossa for at least five minutes now um vipers are amazing they're good against disrupters they're good against arkhams they're good against even the void Raider going against colossae they're good against uh Immortals Proto's Army here taking a paint shot of the book of dessert I actually really like this right here from creator essentially what he's doing is he's saying yo I'm gonna soft contain you on a small amount of basis okay nice blink over there he's got to be careful though don't lose all of the stalkers oh yeah no that's very dangerous I think he could have kept uh he could have kept walking there anyways ends up losing a bunch of stuff immediately transitions towards triple Robo immortal So the plan for our protels here is to walk into the valley of spines I don't know if it's a great idea when I walk into the valley of spine says okay now I'm not gonna try and do that but I don't hmm I wouldn't have minded seeing it transition towards skytos I do think that's probably a good choice creator has just lost a huge chunk of his army he decides to go for the strangest little counter attack ever I think we need to get out here man oh he's trying to just bow all of these units down but that is so many units okay he is gonna get out the spines do connecto all a lot of those Proto's units did Dark just pull a rabbit out of a hat hold up he was with like Hydra Link tech and a couple muras up in the air four bases versus five Bass protels and now we find ourselves in a situation where the men went for just a gajillion lurkers and he made it work oh no well this certainly sets the tone for the series keep in mind this is the best of fight creator has gotta be angry about this one this would really frustrate me anyways I just he was planning on just making so many articles and Immortals to well maybe he's not out of this yet but I do think he's in a really rough spot now I think he was planning on making articles and Immortals and just walk into this the lurker Army which is always a dangerous move to make especially if like your Observer gets sniped or your oracles are gone so you don't have Revelations anymore you could just lose the game in a heartbeat we're immediately going in for a counter-attack now there's like six zerk units somehow they seem to be beating his army because of that huge concave some good dancing out of the storms as well and dark does win in game number one alrighty next up we find ourselves on the map dragon scales I fast forwarded through the first couple minutes of the game Dark went for a hatchery first over at the third base mostly because Creator came across the map harass the Drone harass the mineral line and then stole five minerals Proto's players man where are Their Manners anyways is it gonna be a star again once again what's the plan well he doesn't have to gas for that right now you can obviously cancel the cybernetic score upgrade if he wants to no okay no it is good that's a Twilight council at like 123 gas or so I don't think that's quite optimal either way it is going to be a Twilight Council transition right here from creator you have a few options stalkers can obviously get blink zealots can get charged but I think more likely we're gonna be seeing the glaived at depths it's going to give them a significant uh attack speed boost adapt always a funny unit I mean I was going to say funny unit in this matchup but honestly it's a bit of a funny unit overall when the Adept was first introduced in Starcraft 2 nobody really knew how to play against it everybody was a bit confused okay there it is yeah because it moves around differently than every other unit in the game that we've ever seen right so it's it's a bit funky with the shade moving around and how do you chase it how do you defend over the years players have gotten pretty good at defending against the adepts but it is still a unit that can definitely catch you off guard so early on zirko VC is going to make zarklings in Queens and it turns out neither of these two units is particularly great at well dealing damage against the depths so this glaze upgrade it gives them about a 45 attack speed Improvement it's significant but we already have like a three and a half minute roach worn second gas coming up here too um I think the only reason to be are we gonna go for an all-in this reminds me of a link flood like a roach Ling flood he should stop drowning at like 40 though [Music] are we gonna go third gas I wouldn't mind seeing it yeah we're making roaches already okay how in the world is this going to line up this is an uncommon build from our zerk not so uncommon to build I guess from protos but still relatively strange I can't remember the last time I've seen these two build orders Clash so as dark is making himself up for an attack Creator is doing the same thing it kind of depends on what side of the map I think we're fighting on it turns out Creator is showing up a bit earlier so this zorking by the way is trying to figure out if there's a prism coming across but the prism has already come across I don't think this is good right here for protels is it although then again he will have enough units to defend at home assuming he goes back yeah I hmm do you just start drowning again because at this point dark must realize what he's playing against too this Creator take a third Nexus or do you just sit back and Tech up at this point yeah he decides to go for a third Nexus so this is a standard timing with this particular build which makes me a little concerned but Creator just adding on more probes [Music] we have the zarklings all chasing around one war prism this war prism is actually the absolute key here so I think normally the zerk Army would oh we're thinking we're playing basketball now I mean it almost worked anyways um this prism here is key because it's keeping this zerk Army pinned back at some point dark is going to come across the map now because he's been making non-stop links basically the entire game he made 42 drones and that's it 42 workers Zoe had he made a couple of sport crawlers just to make sure that you know he wouldn't die against the dark Templar follow-up which by the way would be uh kind of sick here I actually wouldn't have minded it if Creator decided to go certain Nexus with a dark Shrine because obviously this is a hatchery based push he already had the Twilight count so I think it would have been a good option anyways maybe he's a bit concerned about like a knight is worm in a main base or whatever this is apparently the moment where dark decides to pull the trigger and sadly for us the prism is also coming back home I don't think that's where you want it maybe he wants to save this but I feel like pushing pre or putting pressure on your opponent is the right call anyways the third Nexus does get canceled we have Immortals available right now too this is a strange engagement if you get a wrap around though right here as Zircon and balls in the middle lovely work pick him up pick him up nicely done right there by Creator saves the majority of his expensive Heavy Hitters here but I still don't think this is good for Zurich though yeah in the end yeah now he starts drowning in a lair an evil chamber and all that in the end we do still have 44 probes here for Creator which is enough for our well full two base saturation assuming you saturate these gases as well which he hasn't done yet versus dark who now finally matches that economy but I think for a little while here already yeah creator has had the income Advantage so this is the income of this game well ever since the very start of it and Provost has been ahead in that department for quite a while Plus on top of that it's not like these traits are particularly great for zerk they're not terrible you didn't actually lose any other ravagers which is kind of impressive now Creator is gonna go for a very delayed Adept attack I I'm also not concerned I'm not sure that this is the best best way of playing it he does Save The Immortals once again all the adepts actually commit okay we're gonna do a re-warping over here that prism may very well end up going down and it will that means that most of these units will probably also fall how many drones are we going to be able to kill he actually doesn't aim for the drones he said he's aiming for the Army primarily these over here did manage to get on over to the third but roaches are waiting over there too but the drones in the main base they are looking very vulnerable and with this amount of adept you can easily contest some of these zerk units too right now dark is everywhere trying his best okay corrosive balls do connect with a couple of the units here nine drones have gone down Creator trying to get on out of there but this is probably gonna immediately trigger a counter attack here from dark as soon as he cleans up these units he's also coincidentally finishing up the roach speed up great I think he's gonna go straight across the map the problem is there's still no third Nexus so I think your push from Zurich here is likely gonna try and kill the opponent's third base but there is none now we're getting into a very weird situation where the main base is going to start running low 10 minutes into the game ever since the release of legacy of the Void or so we've had the main bases running low at about the 10 minute Mark and already several mineral Fields have disappeared but later the natural is gonna start running low as well Creator is forced out onto the map here at some point he's warping in a depth behind a completed wall off if he wants to get out he's gonna have to yeah kill one of his own pylons I think he assumed that the counter attack would be triggered but dark must have seen okay you don't have a third base I'm not even gonna try here's the overs here losing that prism earlier did kind of suck but there's a fresh one so two Immortals and a prism have gone down here 38 adepts we're basically going for more of the same and this does look like a really scary Proto's Army couple uh more adepts do get Warped in too now though the roaches are out in rather big numbers I don't know if plus one is going to finish up maybe in the middle of the fight how in the world does this work though my God that is so many adepts for a pro game keep in mind the uh Immortals are here too okay getting rid of some of the creep not a bad cool Zork never really had a lot of Eco either especially now with units getting in though it's gonna start dwindling very fast but this of course means that a lot of those units that well we see on the other side of the map aren't here with the main Army so maybe the probes are falling if dark can actually save enough time here he's gonna be able to make a lot more units than his opponent than this cool cave over here up on the ramp of the natural is amazing adept's probably welcome it this time around and indeed they do prism is still around there in the back as well do we have enough The Immortals finally joining in in the fight as well but Gigi is called Dark wins game number two game number three we find ourselves on Ancient Cistern match point right here for dark and is best of Five series to Stargate opener here from creator dark has decided to go for the third base first this is one on a map where I don't really mind going for uh the third base first because you know it's spreading Creep from this position right over here all the way towards the center I mean you're just closer right yes closer than if you would start it from there it really does save you a couple minutes anyhow Center build orders from both of them are we going to go for an oracle once again um yesened or sometimes a little bit late in some of these things I mean obviously he's busy but I do feel like Creator can probably shave a few seconds here and there off of his build order I'd be surprised if we were to see little mistakes like that from for example a hero or a Max specs or an Australia those guys are very sharp usually yeah gets a probe as well that is rough right here not a good start at all right now for our protos player he is playing against the Zork who did make a lot of links so this is dark we're talking about right the dark is such a such a wild card normally you don't make this many links but I guess he had link speed he's like you know what circling time this is what I do Oracle flying in right now trying to stay hidden okay this is the first moment that dark will see it he already does have a spark crawler over there sometimes there to get a bit greedy and Skip dose two drones end up going down but in exchange a whole lot of damage was Delta over here Link's coming up in the natural good movement right there by Creator but sadly for him no cigar he okay he's gonna have to take a third base here eventually because of all of those links though sure they're they're you know sniping a few units here and there right actually not really just a single prop was killed in the main base he's hurting his own economy quite a bit so that's the reason why we normally don't see a big round of circlings early on I mean relatively big anyways Supply block right now as well here for dark three overlords coming up all at once yeah I don't actually think I like this all too much right now for our Zurich even though it started off quite promisingly you gotta be so careful though one problem you run into a zerk is if you don't play a clean early game it's very difficult to actually get back into the swing of things because the follow-ups from protos I guess there's a moment for making workers and then there's a moment for making Army right usually when produce is making Army you're making a lot of army too it's difficult to make those drones after that point when for example blink stalkers come across the map that's the moment where you need to start making a lot of Army and if your Eco is not in check at that moment you're in a lot of trouble anyways good amount of adept here six adepts in total we're just gonna recall [Laughter] Korean Starcraft I've been watching a lot of the Europeans over the last week or so right I mean obviously I've seen a couple thousand games of Korean Starcraft 2 as well but there is a noticeable difference man so the idea behind this Adept which was like okay I'm just gonna make these adapts and I'm gonna send them across the map and if you happen to have units I'll just recall them but I guess forcing out units is fine because that's effectively hindering your Eco as well like essentially every two zerk links ooh nice little void right snipe over here gets the Hatchery that was building um every two zirclings you snipe could have been a drone so works out really nicely right there for Creator in the end but now he's got a bunch of adapts that are just I think gonna be on a control group with the main Army okay good Revelation over there here we get one more okay we're gonna lose an oracle for it this is a good number of drones though nine drones 11 in total Hydra then coming up plus one melee macro hatch fourth on the right side this time yeah so in the end if you look right now at the work account life's pretty good here for protos he can do whatever he likes and apparently what he likes is his second rowboat to get her with a robotics Bay hydrogen coming up did he see that in the main base well if he hasn't yet I think he's going to mostly looking right now for example a uh Aspire knowing whether or not there's mutas on your side of the map here in a moment is very nice but he didn't see that actually miras would be really tricky in this game but it's been a Stargate opener too so whenever there's a Stargate in zork's mind at the very least maybe not in darks but in the average zork's mind there could always be a couple phoenixes waiting for you as soon as the mutas show up so he's once again going into hydras this time around we do have a bailing nest but dark decided to skip the roach horn that makes this attack very scary though because again hydras are good but only when they have both of their upgrades and those upgrades are still a couple minutes away stasis worked in the back of the natural dark did respond to that faster than I got my camera on there so that's good for him it's a weird combination of units right now avoid Rey we've got a couple of depths from the earlier stages of the game zealots that don't have charge yet this is very strange I yeah okay we're gonna go double hallucinated Phoenix I don't know if it's a great idea for pros to go and attack because that's a lot of energy he just spent there so he decides to March back home and go for a fourth base instead double Cutlass is coming up he must have spotted the Hydra account so I think he's he's a little concerned about them if you don't attack now this does mean that you're giving dessert player a lot of time to get those upgrades right so range is already done the group spines now we're gonna go muscular occupants that's the speed up right but at the same time you can be more prepared with a better unit comp so colossi as well as a Templar archive so we have to see whether or not he um decides to go into storm or if this is just going to be for archons I think both are a good option but you obviously don't have infinite amounts of gas he's extending his thermal lens right now which was also my nickname in college so that's you know uh we've got ourselves okay two colossi right now we're gonna go up to four are we gonna make any more from there because we did see earlier in the series that dark is quite reluctant to go into vipers apparently I actually think if there's no Vipers you can probably make upwards of like six colossi that does come at the cost of of course well the bulk of your Proto's Army but it would be really strong okay so this has been a surprisingly passive game All Things Considered there's the high Templar yeah we're going for archons I think going for an attack right now is going to be pretty sweet but you gotta be so careful man darkest dark is just going for a full glass Cannon Army this is an army that lives for about five seconds but if it kills everything within those five seconds it's great Arc will take about 20-something bailings I think 21-22 depending on upgrades but obviously if the arkans are hugging the other produce units life's pretty great zorklens are horrible against arkans as well colossi are amazing at links and hydras hmm okay stasis watch are set up dark here I'm afraid he's gonna do what he did in game number one on altitude and even though that was a win I feel like it shouldn't have been okay he decides to go back home um I'm afraid he's gonna run all of his units into the wall of produce units and while that might work out for for protels I think his goal right should probably be to try and get Zurich to win I know crazy concept plus one armor even coming up I wouldn't even mind Shields when you have this many articles we already have five of them oh we got some bailing Roll by over here at least attempt it but the stasis watched from earlier still really nice that's a good snipe right there though bit of a lucky snipe uh we're gonna just keep marching there's no Observer here where are The Observers okay one is coming across the map we're gonna go full counter attack darkest decided yo you don't want to fight me that's okay I'll just go and uh hang out on your side or map for a moment base racing uh azerk is very scary because zurka make hatcheries and bases and structures and everything anywhere around the map for portals that's usually not as easily done you need pylon power and it's all a bit slower we're gonna recall the Colossus 18 probes have already gone down there's the Articles though the archons okay I thought for a second that Colossus was unprotected but the Articles here are being absolutely tremendously helpful so many of the bailings end up rolling into these units that are well extremely heavy in the HP count right so it's good if you kill them but if you sort of keep them alive and they can regen Shields that's not gonna be worthwhile so dark just lost his army Creator just lost his army but Creator in the meantime also lost 21 probes he did however kill 24 drones okay um we have kolosai a bunch of zealots an old army hotkey group of Observers dark once again going in for the counter attack [Music] these guys play like absolute Maniacs man we've got two more colossi about to pop obviously Rico at this point is on cooldown uh Rico's gotta be on cooldown for a while too getting free colossa would be massive when I say that there's a shield battery over there battery overcharged love to see it uh maybe a little bit early though yeah I don't think that should have been triggered just yet but the one called losses walk in the wrong direction okay one Colossus here trying to hold the line I think I think eventually it is gonna go down but already 19 kills 20 kills it's gone to town man the hero Colossus 25 I think maybe even 26 27 kills there when it fell we have more links coming up finally a roach transition but these roaches man he's been he's not been a fan of the roach in this particular game which is ironic because Cyril was playing Mass roach every match in the end I think he should have had them but it's Creator who gets a point on the board alrighty next up we find ourselves on Babylon these guys are playing some spectacular games I wonder if we can't continue it we've got ourselves normal builds once again third Hatchery taken here by dark at the front for going to Natural for now he'll probably be taking that one here momentarily this does seem to be a pretty good map for Zurich in the produce vs Zerg matchup so we have to see exactly if dark decides to play a strategy as well that is going to be particularly good on this map there are a few moments though where protoz does seem to be very scary like there's quite a few choke points so if you don't pay attention for example against disrupters which we haven't really seen too much of in this particular series but there are definitely moments where Zork can be caught off guard it is relatively choky but it can be difficult for example to take a fifth base right for protos I mean you have this location over here you've got the one over there but from that position this would be the most natural spot but this is incredibly wide open I've seen loads of games where produce is sort of tucked away with their army over here right behind the Nexus in between the mineral line or whatever and then zerk comes in with not even really a well I guess I'm I'm indicating a concave here I with almost a circle hold up um why are there drones out on the map uh dark is okay I don't think this is the strategy that I was talking about lovely wall in right there that's what we want to see but he does still manage to get the wrap around obviously the drones they can mirror walk through that Adept and that's what he's trying to do right now he's trying to drone drill as well trying to stack up all of those workers together they do deal a maximum amount of damage of like five so it's it's really not that much that pylon was in a little bit of trouble there but creators crisis management is on point sorry I was talking about the cool cave I wasn't even paying attention to what was going on on the map I figured everything was going to be normal because we've seen early games EVP a lot of times a lot of times it basically looks the same every time okay well in the end horrid start right here for dark [Music] um he is still adding on more drones right now but 21 versus 39 I don't think you have to be a mathematician to figure out how that works these adapts though a little bit overly aggressive luckily the main Nexus had enough energy right there and normally at this point I don't think it would have enough energy for our recoil but apparently he accidentally forgot a Chrono boost there and Well turns out life's pretty good when sometimes you accidentally forget spending your macro mechanic okay yeah trying to get her with glaive the depths that was the plan right here for creator imagine if there would have been an oracle already I don't think that would have been particularly great for dark maybe dark needs to go man we've seen series from from dark like this before though right where it really seems like he's got dinner plans and he wants to get the game over with we've seen that many times especially the weekly cup so this is the grand finals they can sometimes the amount of time that one of those weekly cups takes it can be a little arbitrary sometimes it's over pretty quickly when all of the rounds are nice and fast but sometimes the cups can take forever and well when you've made plans maybe you know your friends are bugging you like come on now come on dark it's dinner I don't know what time they play over in Korea but anyways it's it sometimes does feel like dark really needs to head out anyways we're gonna go for a round of bailings I don't see this working out I want to believe dark don't get me wrong but this is 33 workers products is going for another base he's even gonna find those bailings over here now that is nice okay glorious combat is upon us um that's not good here it's not good at all for dessert obviously there is a flip side to this coin as well if that build would have worked I probably would have been shouting like oh my God dark the smartest man in the world that's my own impression of my own commentary that's the the downside right of going for for those feisty strategies and builds that are not very common um [Music] sometimes you look the hero and sometimes you look like a bit of a fool and I think in this game well honestly props to creator for controlling his army so well and being so on point with re-walling and even though this does look a little cursed uh making all of the correct plays then you have a dark shrine yeah he does have a dark shrine some reason he's been spending his gas right now on a bunch of upgrades and okay now the DTs are coming in yeah he's also got a couple Sentry set up over here the invisible men and an urubu but mostly the invisible and another and the invisible men is this something that Zork will see because obviously this is not a particularly high-tech Army here from zerk he doesn't have any detection GG in three two one okay it didn't happen mostly because dark didn't notice I think he was busy on the other side of the map or something oh no here's the other one so he just manually blew up his bailings after hugging where that little blur was don't think it's the most reliable way to kill the dark Templar but I mean this is still a disaster though he's got one spark crawler yeah no he's got two Spore crawlers here um one in the main base two I think this one is gonna wander on over in this direction thing is creators looking at this and he's like okay well you don't have any workers at the start if you don't have any workers at the third I've got a fully saturated one I don't think I really need to get all too carried away with my dark Templar aggression as long as I just set myself up for success I don't really need to take any risks some life advice right here from Creator man it could be a motivational you know speaker motivational player motivational protos whatever you want to call it but he's got eight eight gateways right now 14 stalkers 11 adepts he's got both glaves as well as blink as well as possible it's a fun year.com but I have said that a bunch of times already we don't even have a prism we're just gonna warp in units at the third base and then wander them across the map I believe Lair coming up right now for dessert if dark can wiggle his way out of this situation man he's a wiggler that's for sure we've seen him wiggle many a Time I mean maybe he uh he has to pay for dinner you know maybe it's his turn so he's like you know what I think it's like 200 bucks or so for first place it would be kind of nice okay corrosive balls are being annoying fourth Nexus coming up what about a robotics facility and making a war prism are we we've got nine gateways by the way which bothers me greatly I'm okay with eight I'm okay with seven nine what are we gonna do at nine we can't go fortnite anyways doesn't matter um he's adding on more what he's adding on 11 11 gateways okay um there's still no prism I just think it would be helpful to be able to reinforce these units in the middle of the map but apparently uh yeah Creator disagrees okay trying to shade in a couple of adapts over here that is cute very nicely done because of course zerk right now preoccupied with these units over here this gives you some damage getting a couple of the workers over here not bad a depths in the meantime shading into the natural I do think these no they're not gonna be intercepted so actually this is dealing a lot of damage yeah dark already had a terrible economy now he's in a strange spot what do you do here at zerk well he's trying to drone up he's wiggling this man's wiggling so hard right now okay this is one way to reinforce we're gonna make a pylon in the middle of the map and with the middle I mean off to the left in the bottom okay the map is his oyster okay he can do whatever he likes I feel like you could even if he wanted to he could if he liked to he could probably blink into these units and Kill Them All there's the prism coming up nine zealots also being warped in dark looks at his army though and he realizes yeah there's no way alrighty the rubber match game number five we find ourselves on Royal Blood Gang Creator complete the reverse sweep honestly reverse sweeps are very uncommon and I've seen quite a few of them over the last couple of weeks it would be insane to have another one so Stargate opener here from creator dark once again forced to go for his third base first we have a little bit of bait over here he knows that link speed isn't done yet he's just waiting for zarklings that might be uh on the other side of the map okay the Stargate is gonna be producing I'm gonna say an oracle three oracles I'm gonna go with three oracles will I be right we're producing nothing because we don't have any money nice you decide to go next an oracle right now okay a depth on the other side of the map trying to be annoying yeah we decided to go for an extra stalker here that's always a bit weird seeing a stalker right so as a zerg this always confused me a bit so you see a depth Adept stalker when I see a stalker right if you're wearing dessert shoes and you see a stalker what do you think most players will probably think okay that stalker is trying to deny Vision so he must have something you know spicy coming up right if he's trying to shoot up my overworks he must have and then he's got the most standard of standard builds inside in the main base okay well we're just gonna make this stalker over here to provide High ground or well to get the overlord here and provide High Ground Vision with the Oracle fair enough this does mean that we have to go for a second Oracle pretty much because otherwise this Oracle would be wasted and eventually it does pop like a balloon we're gonna have to he wants to activate it yeah okay so time for some aggression start base coming up right now the first four minutes of this game no drone rushes or anything like that link speed is done dark has got 200 gas in the bank leaving all drones in gas there as well inject okay Lair four and a half minutes rounded up four and a half minutes nothing all too crazy there will he go for a roach Warren so he's been kind of allergic to Roach horns in this series no evil chamber yet either so I believe in that series I cast between Cerro and Mech specs we saw Cyril either going for a 4 30 Evo chamber when he wanted to play a bit more macro focused or even a 330 Evo chamber so you could have plus one melee done really early now it's dark going for a 450. that seems kind of arbitrary oh he's already got a roach horn did I not okay I didn't see it on the production tab nice Loco professional commentator in my defense I've been casting this series for like an hour Roba facility Forge Twilight Council not usually the order in which we get things but it's okay the Korean Starcraft is is definitely yeah it's definitely a little bit different okay we have one Oracle this is a strange sequence over here we had one Oracle following around one roach and then another Oracle following around the other he's like yo bro are you sure you should be out here did you ask your mom you could come out and play in the middle of the map turns out they couldn't and now they're dead this is why I don't let my roaches play outside I think it's very dangerous okay charge coming up is the first upgrade in the Twilight console so I think this is leading to some sort of three base attack with Immortals in charge he's still making oracles by the way I was wrong he's going up to four oracles fouracles is he gonna make even moracles though that's the question we gotta ask ourselves okay foreign workers here essentially a Flawless game so far here for Creator how long would it last oh we're gonna go for an attack right now that creep tumor by the way was not caught in the Revelation I don't think you want to be out here yet creator I know you killed two roaches earlier maybe that gave you a nice confidence boost but you got to be very careful this is dark you never know man the man could just be sitting there with 60s Arc links oh instead we're gonna go for a super quick infestation pit and a hydro then okay so maybe dark had dinner plans but they've been canceled I think he's gonna go straight into lurkers from here Hive with lurkers I wouldn't mind seeing an old push here Creator going eight gateways that's good eight gateways is a good number dark's gonna split them some of them two of them a bit funky but wouldn't mind seeing a little bit more there there is going to be a fourth base on the back of this but I wouldn't mind seeing just an all-out assault right now for creator there's the hive I think there's a gonna be a lurker down here as well momentarily dark trying to get the drones going here at the fourth yeah he's gonna take the gases this is what you should do if you want to go into lurkers storm coming up though okay so eight gateways in macro oh we're gonna go fourth base over on the left side of the map fair enough we already have that random pile on here creating some choke points in this area this is gonna give dark enough time now to get his lurkers out if he doesn't go for an attack well an oracle uh the follicle attack is still nice I guess okay we're just gonna kill the Queens okay we're actually getting a lot of Queens going after a lot of drones oh my God uh what's that good I think it was actually just a little funny of an exchange he seemed a bit indecisive but he still dealt a lot of damage two queens going down and ten drones for yeah I think accidentally making one extra Oracle there maybe he didn't really need it but it ended up dealing a lot of damage and now maybe he's trying to catch the zerk as he's redroning but immediately I mean dessertling are trying to get a rep around to get a wrap around around a bunch of oracles though don't think that's really where you want them storm at this point is done but we no did he cancel it oh he canceled it maybe his opponent was scouting it or something uh in the end we are just gonna go for one really big push creator has got a lot of money in the bank here but not as much gas as as dark dark completely caught with his pants down he wanted to go lurkers here and he's got a bunch of hydras but he hasn't had the time yet maybe that's the reason why Creator decided to pull the the trigger here he's like okay it is time for me to go right now because if I wait a couple more seconds my opponent is gonna have a stupid amount of lurkers we saw how that went on altitude it's very difficult to stop when you're suddenly playing against 20 of them this is a bagger of an engagement right here by Creator though shutting down his opponent's Army shutting down his opponent's economy I think we may just be witnessing another reverse sweep creator okay we have some high Templar being warped in yep there we go not bad at all 22 drones have gone down here we're gonna put the low HP Immortals into the prism and there it is Creator obtains the victory three two two over dark hey if you enjoyed watching this video make sure you hit that like button down below I know it can be kind of annoying when I ask but it does really help the channel and of course if you really enjoyed it and you would like to see more hit that subscribe Button as well as the little bell icon so you get notified as soon as future videos go live for now though have a great rest of your day don't forget to smile and I'll see you once again in the next one

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Length: 54min 14sec (3254 seconds)

Published: Wed May 31 2023