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I was miles ahead after my incredible early game, and after a solid midgame with good creeped spread, I lost to O.P. Widow Mines. It's just sad how stupidly imbalanced widow mines are. I don't even need to explain to you why, as you can see. I did not play perfect, obviously. But if my opponent wouldn't have built that many widow mines? I think he put the thing in the wrong place now. In Wooden, he misspelled that word. Enlarge it, Hamster for the people at home. I'll have a good laugh already. I'm sorry. Wouldn't have built that many widow mines. I would have smashed him. You, as a Protoss, obviously, don't know how to play against widow mines because you have imbalanced disruptors. As a Zerg, I don't have a joke unit like that. Have fun watching the replay and, Beep, Terrence. Name, Wingent, race, Zerg, League, Diamond on EU MMR 3.3. KMMR, I believe that's Diamond. Three. All right. Let's straight up hop into the game. As good luck, good luck, race. It's a little bit yikesy. Okay, random. Random. Okay, so this was a... It's a random player, and he asked, hey, can you tell me your race? The random player opens with a 13 Depot as well. As Vingent is still crying like a little baby over the fact that his opponent didn't tell his race. I mean, that's literally the one advantage you have as random, right? You need to learn nine matchups, but at least your opponent doesn't know what race you have. You can't complain about it. So, Wingent is not making a hot start when it comes to the manners. Also, forgets to send out his overlord as he's too busy chatting. Chatty little person. You'll love to see it. My risk might gain. Erejuman, he's laying down the facts here. This is my new friend. Change his name, hamster. Or give him like a little crown on top of the E or something like that. So that is now my new, definitely a top five friend already. It's very easy to become a good friend if you have as little friends as I have. This was a 14 pool, which is not really a build order. It's not. This pool timing just doesn't make very much sense. Now the reason I say it is because usually you open up with a Reaper as a Terran and whether it's 16 pool or 14 pool, your Reaper is going to be on the other side of the map when the lings come in. I actually think with 14 pool you probably need to wait a little longer until you can send the lings in. Errorium, however, it's not really doing much of... I doubt if he's gonna get a Reaper? Okay, he's gonna get a... He's playing two gas, two depot before CC. So this game is already very, very interesting from a build order perspective, okay? I don't quite know what this is. But, you know, we'll look at this, we'll say, we'll say, okay, you know, this is... We have to adapt to the situation, you know, we're watching a diamond level game, whole game. So we need to adapt to these circumstances. I need to get my brain in that mode. Usually in order to get to that type of level, I hit my head a couple of times against the wall, but my head's still hurting to get down to the level of last week's IOTUS that my doctor advised me against it. Okay, so he just straight up attacks into a full wall, sees a Reaper, and it's like, well, I'm glad I built eight lings out of a four, no, sorry, 10 lings out of a 14 pool and managed to do absolutely nothing. So great build order here by Wingand, and I'm sure that he's looking at this. He actually said that he had a great early game. It is possible that he thinks this is good, that he thinks, okay, whenever I just, there's no CC on the low ground and I build 10 lynx, maybe he believes that Zerg is just supposed to win, you know? Usually it's actually the Terrans that do things like that. Like most Terrants, the moment they manage to actually execute a build order properly, they believe that they just get the win if they then also use Stim and, stutter step forward twice. It's like, well, the things that I just did in this game were just so much harder than what pros in Zerg need to do. I think I deserve the game already. It's just not equal in the amount of effort we need to put in. I feel like, kind of that's what the Zerg did here, you know, he's very happy that I managed to finally throw down a pool without floating 350 minerals, got out some lings. He's like, you know what? This actually is a great early game. Well, in reality, he's actually not in that great of a spot. He's down in income. Sure, his opponent doesn't have a CC yet, but he invested a lot in useless things and right now he's also getting a banning nest, six more lings. All of these things are really, really weird in my opinion. Like you scout your opponent is on one base and you're getting more aggressive options. Maybe it's a defensive bailing nest, I guess. It's also viable. Man, this indeed is a fantastic early game for dessert. How did he get it in his head that this was a good early game? He lost 250 minerals. He delayed his hatchery by like 45 seconds and he cut like seven drones. And then his response is that he builds 18 more lings. I've seen last week. Sometimes it can work. I mean, there's no big wall on the natural yet. So perhaps this case is just rushing mines with the red dot. So you can't see them after they shoot. This is fantastic. At this point, I think the Terran could almost just lose all of his units and still just be in a fine position. because it's just even in workers and that's good if you're the Terran in that case it's not getting an orbit it's getting a third gas this game so far has me confused okay I am not quite sure what the focus on I'm not quite sure what's happening in general okay there's a single mine he's going to move in and now he goes right Actually doesn't make him sense. He's going to burrow this maybe. Burrow it? Burrow it? No? Okay. Chases with the lings. Meanwhile, floating some money. He is injecting, though. Third base on the way as well. 13 kills. There's one hellbeth here. It's going to get surrounded. Guess that's something. what this game is. But yeah, I just don't know what this game is actually. I have no, I just have no clue. Like this entire game just is funny to me. So right now, if you're in the Zerg shoes, you might think you're in a good spot. But in reality, your opponent has pretty good infrastructure. The work account is getting a little bit low for the Terran and his mining just isn't that hot. He hasn't used the Mew in a while. There's still no orbital command here. So the Zerg is like, I just force you to not have any SEVs downstairs. I'm going to follow us up with Ling Bane. Even though if he would just build pure drone at this point, he'd be in a super good spot, right? He'd just get ahead like maybe 30 workers or so 25, 30 workers, which would be big. He knows it's Mac, so you probably want to either be going into something like Roach. You can also play Ling Bane Yura. It is possible. This also is possible, but actually is it in favor of the Terran still now. He's going to get a four. Blue Flame Helion. Okay. He scouted so far, Widow Mine Helion, so he knows its Mac, throws down a spire, and gets more lings again. How many lings has he lost already so far this game? Why can't I see that? Oh, I'm pressing Capslogs rather than shift. Okay, 45 lings down the drain. That's a decent amount. Going to get five more drones as well. I thought he said he had good creep spread. I'm not sure if I would count this at good creepsprud. We're seven minutes in the game. Okay? Let's count the tumors. One, two, three, four, five, six tumors. Okay, this is six tumors at the seven minute mark. Hamster, what I would like you to do is to show what good creeps spread looks like. Get a shot from the game between Dream and Reynor on Pillars of Gold. from the latest Intel Extreme Masters. That was good creeps spread. This creep spread, your average like diamond Zerg player should have this. After like the four minute mark basically, like 4.30. There should be this many tumors already. Maybe five minutes. This just doesn't... What? Okay, so he cancels the spire, builds a double Roachwarren, a Hydra Dan. and five overlords. Okay, first of all, he doesn't really have much of a plan. There's no Evo chamber yet. I'm seriously doubting the usefulness of the second Roach Warren. That's going to be for Tunneling Clause and Glyle Reconstitution, which is the Roach speed. Tunneling Clause is the Roach borough or the moving well burrowed. He's not starting the upgrades. Ananitis. Maybe this is one of these weird challenges, you know? Like we used to have like the planking challenge. It's like the cinnamon challenge, the Tidepot challenge, this type of stuff, you know? I bet this is something that started on TikTok. I'm not much. I use a lot of social media, but TikTok isn't for me. I'm too old for it. And I think we might have, I bet Wingent is following a lot of StarCraft TikTokers. and they said, hey, uh, wait, the, the TikToks, they keep repeating, right? And there's usually music. I'll make the background music myself. Pa, pa, pa. Welcome. Build all the buildings as a Zerg. TikTok challenge. Boom, boom, boom, Jesus, this is going to follow me for a while. Um, yeah, I'm very curious what he's doing. Maybe every building except actual upgrade structures. This is a classic, right? Gets two roach warrants, then start messing hydras. in a Nidas. Against someone playing Mac. I feel like he could have just ran this across the map and he would have been faster than just standing around this Nidas, like some kind of ceremony. Nias look really ugly. Just a big mouth. I would not want to go in there. You don't know what's on the other side either. Is this like the worm, the thing? Holy crap, this looks nasty. It's going like a drum. A lot of the Zerg buildings and high graphics look really yikers, if you ask me. Okay, here comes the Oversair. Put the Nidus in here. I don't know, like, I feel like just a single tank would beat this army, no? 48 versus 49 workers. Yeah, it just gets in position. is a lot of mines but also a lot of hellbs like this is literally going to the slaughter why would he keep going? After the first 20 boys pop out into like 16 halvats does he think that the hellbatch just magically go to the other side so he just invested a crepton into this only got road speed no tunneling claws now rebuild the spire again and an infestation pit he's actually going for every single building except the evo chamber no and then afterwards we have everything except the ultra cavern and I guess he could still go lurker than greater spire as well I wonder if you will make the challenge and then upload it into a TikTok himself as well that would be quite something I actually should make a ticester TikTok. I feel like all of these sound bites are going to waste on the YouTube community. Creep's red looking tight already. Look at that. Don't forget that nothing has happened on Wingent's side of the map. Like this entire game has been nothing. This Terran moved out with three Helions and a mine. Wingent still didn't manage to clean up this mine, which somehow has gotten 11 kills. Doesn't he just see this? Oh my God, it's just out of range. Okay, look at this. I want to see this first person. He sees the mine shop. There we go. Cleans it up. Good job. I thought he might, you know. He might not clean it up. This oversher over here or the overlord. Three turrets. But this Terran is on top of everything. So we see. So Wingent, basically what he did so far is he lost a crappton of lings to four mines. Then he lost a creptone of units trying anidas that hit like the nine minute mark. And then he did nothing. Started building drones. then another round of units, then another round of drones. I love that every single time he builds a new tech structure, he doesn't really care about using it. Now he builds three Evo chambers. Because he definitely can afford all of this. He's a very healthy gas count that he currently has on his 67 drones. Like, what is this game? Is he just going to sit here for the next 10 minutes and make me kill time? There's absolutely no way, right? is this actually what's going to happen? Is this type of replay, I feel like should have a warning where or maybe this, I could use this as like a sleeping playlist, you know, just a bunch of these games in a row where actually nothing happened. He's just literally doing nothing. He's not spreading Crete, but he's also not building drones. The last time he scalped was with his Nidas. Like, he has absolutely no clue. This guy could have been building like four stories. Starports and 12 battle cruisers at this point. He's actually... Is he still here? Is he actually still in the game? He still has a heartbeat. This is APM is still going. The Terran is almost falling asleep at this point. I can't believe this is happening to me. Is this how people play Starcraft? This is double planetary. Oh, here we go. Ling run by being set up. Look at that. This is the classic multitasking as well. I bet you that if he would ask Wingent about this move, you would call it multitasking. But in reality, there's only one thing happening, and that's this zergling run by. What is he doing? No, some creepsread. 14 minutes in game. Nothing, hasn't been attacked once. Not a single tumor has gone down. 67 workers. 4.5K in the bank. This is great. And he's going to lose to this. And we know that already. This is a lot of mines, by the way. That's just really bad. So, now you could say, well, Kevin, you keep saying mines are so bad. But what is actually bad about the widow mine? I mean, it does splash damage. It can attack ground. It can attack air. It is invisible. There is one unit in the Zerg Arsenal that completely beats this. The Brutelord just absolutely blast these units. And the reason for that is that you have broodlings. like they will trigger all of these mines and then all of a sudden you legit have what is this 60 supply of useless units just 60 supply this only works though if you trigger the mines with the broodlings if okay I'm going to make a hot prediction here okay what I think is going to happen is he will trigger every mine with his roaches his hydras and corruptors then his broodlords will come in and he'll lose the fight against the three tors and the two Vikings. Four tors and the two Vikings. I think this is going to be great personally. Burrow the mines body. I want to see this. Okay, there we go. Roaches moving forward. Yes, corruptors roaches, roach. Oh yeah, clumped them all up. Always, it's very, actually is what happened. You just love it. He lost the overseer as well. So he's not even going to be able to end him. He still gets a good fight. This is how bad, widow mines are by the way like they're not good in large numbers they're good in small smaller numbers like eight nine 10 and especially against ling Bane but against units that outrange them they're not actually that good this was a fantastic fight there's no way He's going to fly over them. Does he know he needs an overshare? Okay, two overseers. Smart? He's actually just going to fly over mines again and again, isn't he? Like, there's still nothing here for the Terran. Terran is rebuilding Mind Tor Viking right now. this army should be actually unbeatable at this point it thanks another hit two hydras go down to a single mine shot hydras outrange mines by the way I just want to put this flag here where everyone can see it that this entire army currently outranges mines like all of this these keep shooting He's never going to clean those up, is he? He's never going to clean them up. You can feel it already. You can actually feel it that he's never going to clean up. Oh, let me see, let me move my hydras in position. Overseers move them a little forward. Let me tank that turret shot. Smart and loses all of his brute lords to mines and two Thor's. Oh no. Maybe only use the units in the back, no. You've got to be kidding me. This is actually so impressive. Like, watching this is actually a masterclass in what not to do. Like, he could write a book, things not to do in StarCraft 2 games. And that honestly should be a New York Times bestseller. What are the kills on these mines? It's not that many, but it's all pretty big units. Like it's not that... 50, 3, 7. A lot of these guys have like two or three Hydra kills, I think. Oh, no, not the broodlord. He's gonna fly in. That's one? Maybe another one? You think he doesn't realize? He's gonna send in the link to deal with the mines. There's a couple of birds. 12 more drones. He hasn't been under pressure once, by the way. Look at the Terran's vision. The last time Terran was on the other side of the map, he was on two bases. He's down 8K. He's literally had a ranged army against units that are immobile. I don't even know how you can lose to this. I actually do not understand how this is possible. Like, if you think of the way. The widow mine is such a limited unit. It isn't supposed to fight well against Brutelords. Against lings and Bains? Sure. But against anything that outranges it, no. He just owned this. All of these just are now useless. If he had any type of army here, he would just destroy it. I feel like these mines, I don't really, he's kind of losing too much. How many mines are 40 nights? I feel like he just isn't aware of detection. I feel like at this point, this guy is just missing so many clues. Like, it's like he has a gun, but he doesn't know quite how the trigger works, you know? He has long-range brute lords to deal with these guys, but he's not aware that he also needs detection. And he just keeps sending his poor soldiers forward on every single minefield that there is. Like, this just makes absolutely no sense to me. Like, he just... At first, I didn't think he was actually losing to the mines, but in the past three minutes, he just keeps going back again and again. Like, his entire opponent's army consists of mines, and all he's doing, like, there's literally 48 mines and 8 helvet. And he's only thinking about 8 helvets, because that's what he can see. Like, if he's... he was in the army and he would be playing against those stealth planes, you know, like the things you can't see, it would be over. He'd just pretend they don't exist. He's like, well, if you can't see them, they don't exist. Which is kind of an ostrich-like move. Except he's in charge of a massive army as well. Like, he just keeps rallying them in. And it's not like he's at first he at least He's tried with the Overseers but at this point he isn't even trying anymore. It's like he just accepted the fact that he doesn't know how to control units. It's like this just keeps growing. And if we pretend the problem doesn't exist, they might just go away. I just have absolutely no clue. How this guy wins any games. I want to see him play against DTs or Banshees. or benches, lurkers. I want to see what he does. If Muda started harassing his mineral line and he doesn't have a spore, he's like, oh, I don't have a spore already, so might as well just give up my life. Just sends the drones into like the corner of his base and then tells his opponent where they are. Like, oh, I can't deal with the Muda Lisk anyway. Now he counter-attacks, which is probably the best move he's made so far. Because all the mines were on his side of the map. Like the flaws of the mine are so... so patently obvious that I don't understand how you can miss it. I mean, he says that... What did he say about the disruptor? This guy had some big talk about the disruptor, didn't he? What did he say? Where are you? Where's my tab with the imbalance? What did you say, you little prick? You as a pro, those obviously don't know how to play against widow mines, because you obviously don't know how to play against widow. Mines, but I do know how not to play against Widow Mines. And that's what you just did. Like, honestly, we could have given him 12 disruptors, but he's just not aware of where the mines go after they burrow. Maybe he thinks that mines can burrow underground. So it's like, ah, there's no use getting detection because they just burrow underground away. I feel like if we would give this guy disruptor, the likelihood of him killing his own units is a lot higher than if he would accidentally hit a mine. This looks so dumb. This looks so dumb. This actually... We've had a lot of games which were weird and perhaps bad. But this just felt like there was a bug in the system. Maybe Wingent is an AI. Like one of the crappy AIs, you know? Don't deal well with invisible units. Things they can't see. So happy. that he built a second road warrant as well. He really got a lot of use out of that. In case this one ever fell, he still had the backup road war in the same spot. You know, sometimes when I get these emails, these imbalance forms, I'm never sure if these people are serious or not. You know, sometimes I feel like they're just kind of pulling my leg to get me to make some mediocre jokes. But I feel like this guy might actually believe it. If he actually believes it, then I have another bridge to sell him. Holy crap. If he thinks mines are in balance, what does he think of Banshees? They're invisible and they fly. And they can move while shooting. Like, he must have a really weird view of the world. He counter attacks into a planetary with his roaches. takes out a quick base Creep Trots fantastic by the way main reason is because mines can't actually attack Creep I think he would have won this game if he had built like 10 crawlers at some point Gigi's out Erojun wins I don't even think I need to do my hand segment honestly this one is so obvious he what is the I want to see the units lost actually I'm so curious 43,000 against 23,000 that's almost double against an army composition with a unit that has like, what is this? Four range, maybe? I think, I think minds have four range, right? Or five? I don't even know. It's because it's never really an issue. Like, everything outranges it. Hyra, Stalker, Brutlord. It's impressive, though, that you managed to lose this. I really think it's impressive. You actually need to try hard to lose against something like this. My man, Iridgium over here, my best friend, he was just making his own, like, beating Grandmaster with stupid stuff. And he's done a great job. I'm proud of all beating diamonds with stupid stuff. This was absolutely awful wing, and your build order made no sense. Let's not forget that this started with a cancelled, well, spire, cancelled, double Roach Warren, Hydra then, Nydas. Nydus unloads straight into 15 hellbats. Quit the Nidus, get 15 more workers, more roaches than hydras, get Brutlords, which you somehow managed to lose to two Tours and 14 widow mines. You never get detection. When you get detection, you feed it straight into the turrets. and to finish it all off, you actually just let a minefield stay in a location where, and then you just rallied your units into it. Like this was, you get, you know how in America you have these achievements, like the purple heart or the Medal of Courage, the Medal of Honor, or whatever, that's a video game, maybe also one of these medals and achievements. I feel like if you would be in the US Army, you would be getting the opposite. It's like rather than the purple star, you get like the yellow brick or something like that for the absolute worst soldier that we've ever seen like for a commander you get i don't know what other is like the opposite of the medal of honor you get like like a cup of old coffee like congratulations three years old and it's moldy here you go sir it's not a great achievement no well he said like freaking 40k resource into a minefield which we knew the location of and didn't move like It's just honestly impressive. You, my friend, Wingent. You suck. And you suck real good. All right. That's going to be it for today's episode of Is It Inba? Or do I suck? You didn't enjoy this episode. Don't forget, subscribe to the YouTube channel. Smash the like button. Those things really do help. And we'll see y'all next time for a new episode. Bye-bye.


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Hello, Mr. De Coney. I humbly request a cross-examination to what I believe is mathematical proof that Terran is Inba. I'm a diamond tozer and played a ZVT in an in-house tournament. My opponent is a superior player than I am. He's master's ranked. Therefore, my game plan was to choose of three-base Bainbust, since one or two base would be obvious from early scout. And he always scouts early. He went fast 3-C with no units. I punished that heart with my bailing bust. I brought him down to two SUVs, with the supply reading 11 to 39 in my favor. I thought, surely, the sub can't lie. Yet I walked away with the L somehow. Is this not empirical proof that Mews are imba? If a Terran can go down to two workers and still win, what is the point of this game? Or do I just suck? With regards, Chang'un. So his question is, did the sub lie? Or is it just like the hips? And they don't lie. Let's figure this out. As in the bottom right, we have Mr. Chang'un, spawning as the Red Zerg player. And in the top left, we have the Terran who is Thiel, I think, or Cian, and it's U. So we have a quick look to see what... Now, this is a start. This is... Let's just look at this because there's a couple of things that happen here. I want to explain. First of all, the reason this happens is because the stop hotkey is the same as the hotkey for select larva. So when you select the larva, or when you click the hatchery and you press the S hotkey, it selects larva and you can build a drone or an overlord, whatever. If you have all your drones selected, all of them will stop moving. This is not what I was interested in because... When he does this, okay, here we go. Look at this. Look how he fixes this problem, okay? Selects three in the middle, two on the right, two on the left. He has an optimal solution for this problem. Now, this should be something that happens once every thousand games, but this guy, It probably happened so much to him that he's figured, you know what? I need some, you know, I need an optimal solution for this. When this happens, I need to do something. This is a bit like, imagine you're working in an office. Okay. And the guy next to you just starts peeing on his keyboard, which is weird already, right? That is an odd occurrence. You're new to the office. But then you're like, oh, crap, peeing on his keyboard. it's all going to get dirty and his keyboard won't work anymore. As he's done, he just opens up his backpack, picks out a new keyboard, and has like some wet wipes, cleans it up, and he's good to go in like 20 seconds. That's basically what Cheng Hung did here. He peed on his keyboard, but he does this so often that is not even a surprise for him anymore. He knows that it's going to happen, you know. He can't contain himself. If you got to go, you got to go. That's what his daddy always told him, and he had to go, man. The keyboard is dirty, but bam, same model, but newer edition. That's Tsangoon in a nutshell. So already up to a racing start here is our Zerg player. Follows up with a hatcherfers. This is an early scout, by the way. He said, and he always scouts early. But this is freaking fast. Holy crap, what is this? Oh, he's playing CC first. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Well, then the early scout doesn't make sense. I'm not sure. I think, no, actually, still doesn't make sense. don't matter it don't matter pretty baby then I don't know the rest of the lyric but what are we looking at here there's nothing really happening is there Chang Chang's just scouting around you think he recognizes that this is this is a command center it's like a minute faster I'm always curious at what you know how we have the for a long time we had the mirror test for animals So when you wanted to figure out if an animal is self-conscious, we'd show him a mirror or her, a mirror. And if the animal would realize that it's a mirror image, we'd be self-conscious. I feel like we need a test like this for Zerg players, where we can figure out if they have positive or negative IQ by showing them different command center timings. Like here, this is definitely a command center first, but I'm not sure if this guy is aware of that. He might just look at this and think, oh, this is a command center. And then just go back home. Just like if you show like a hamster himself in the mirror, the hamster over the hamster. This is a hamster in the mirror. Then piss off back, like running the wheel. Why do hamsters do that? That, now that is a good way to generate some electricity. And I know people have suggested this before, but I think there is some future in that. Okay, speed, extractor, queens. It's all looking solid. Like nothing weird going on here. He gets four lings because he's like, oh, there's a fast command center. I bet there's also a Reaper coming quickly to my side. It's not completely wrong, but this Reaper is about, I really wonder if he knows. I don't actually care about the rest of the game. I think I'm going to send this guy an email and ask him if he realized that I will CC first. I'm so curious now. The rest of the game can kind of suck it. Oh, that was good blocking. Could have built the extractor a bit faster, but, you know, I don't even mind this. It's all good. It's playable, it's playable. Just take this as her third. I like that he said that he didn't want to do it from one or two base because that would be too obvious. and now he's actually doing it from two days. Like his third base is legit a minute, a minute late. He's at least pretending hard. Come on, take the extractor for the love of God. Thank you. Marine scouts this third. Like the Terran definitely knows something is up. He just started walling. He's like, oh, no third base. The Azirc thought he was so smart. He's like, oh no, I fake a third base. He's a German. Very sassy German as well. I picked the third base. And then I send the lings across the map. Doesn't know he will realize. I mispronounced that on purpose to mimic a German. That wasn't. My own mistake. A third cc is a star port. It's getting some cars going as well. Whoa! I also love it when they do that. Pop in, pop out. Like some secret method of transportation. It always reminds me of Harry Potter when they... flush themselves down the toilet except it's a bunker it's less nasty and this looks really bad for the Terran i have to admit so this goes in as well they say when it rains it pours and these buckets it's raining buckets right now guys three lings killing every single worker this game is actually over this is actually over i love that he builds more lings as well i think usually Usually that's not that great because you actually want to go into drones, but in this case, like, this game is actually over. Like, you can't lose anymore. It's literally impossible to lose at this point. Right? Oh, no. I love that he's like, you know what really has the priority here? This starport is like two cars, like shooting at him. It's like, you know, I bet that the Medivac or the Viking that's, that's, you know, I bet that the Medevac or the Viking, that's, pops out of here we'll have a bigger impact on this game rather than the two cars absolutely roasting my lings this is this is some solid prioritizing from our jerk player here I don't know the matter of fact what the heck okay we have three three workers I think he said he went down to two workers right we said okay there's 10 more lings I love it so right now he has a lead of 20 workers his opponent has three units left so the opponent all upon needs to do is micro these three units. So the entire focus of this Terran player will be on that. It's five workers already. 14 more workers or 12 more lings, 14 more lings. And now this might sound done, but if he continues attacking, I can see how he will lose. Because you're not supposed to keep attacking now. What you should be doing is you just drone up. You have what, two queens, getting a thing. third queen. You could legit just go up to like 45, 50 workers, get like five queens at home, and then you can start attacking again once your opponent tries to start your third base or something. Like there's no extra barracks. Their stim is going to finish at like, like legit 18 minutes into the game. He's still building bunkers. Now I love to see where he's going to go. This is, okay, this is some A-class decision making, okay? I don't even mind that he fails the bailing bus. This is, that is, that is something that I can live with. But then the follow-up here. Okay, so he has eight, nine, eight bailings. Counting remains difficult for me. Eight banings. You can just right-click this thing and it will blow up, okay? Instead, the lings will block him for, it feels like infinity. And then, yeah, the repair goes off and nothing happens. Then he sees this happen, okay? He sees, okay, massive wall, there's like a starport, a command center, a barracks and a depot. Like, this is going to take legit like 14, 15 banlings to blow up. His response, after seeing a solid wall with three helions parked behind it, 18 more lings. How does this make any sense? He's working of a single gas. Okay, imagine you have a massive concrete wall, okay? You have a massive, massive concrete wall. And you just used three trucks. In this analogy, the truck is the main. Just use three trucks to try and break this concrete wall. Your trucks, they get very close, but in the end, the trucks don't make it, they explode. Then your follow-up plan is, is to round up all the men of the nearby village and start running headfirst into the concrete wall to try and break it. This might sound like a good idea, but let me tell you, my friend, it is not. These villagers could be used better. for example, to mine minerals from a nearby mineral mine, or to get some of that Vespine gas. But no, 18 more lings. You love to see it. I feel like we're getting closer and closer to the answer on the question whether my man here has negative or positive IQ. Did I lower the game speed too much? Yes, I did. Six more main lings. Now we're talking. He's making trucks again, guys. Because last time it didn't work with eight and now six, now that all buildings are fully repaired, definitely is going to be the play. He just keeps building lings. So he was 21 workers against 3, now he's 21 against 21, and he's playing against triple CC, so triple mule. Does he not realize that Terran can repair? Like, does he actually think this will work? There's no way, right? This is in the wall. Oh no. I didn't even realize? I thought it was... Even at this point though, it's completely okay. He can literally lose every single unit and be fine. These cars will just... Yeah. Nice. Little did the man know that once he breaks down the wall, there's guys with flame throwers. Oh no, what a painful episode this is. What a painful episode. I love that he could, I love the dedication to this push though, you know. The complete lack of transition. That's, it's great to see. Very often, you see people not as dedicated to a case as this guy is. My man Chang'un here, you know. He gets things done. Sure, it's not the right things, but at least things are getting done. If he was a politician, he would have a very weird list of things to brag with, right? Like, usually politicians, what do they have? They have, like, we helped create this road. We build another school. I mean, Changun will have, like, a swimming pool for rats or something like that. Or he'll make, like, a duck pond, but put it on the top of an apartment building where the ducks can't reach. Like, it's like a bunch of very weird achievements. and then confused that no one votes for him for a second term. You'd make an awful mayor of a city channel. But... I love that he went for the starport first. He's like, he has a potential there, guys. I have a good feeling about that starboard there, dude. You know, that starport, I think, might just be it. Yeah. He's just getting blasted. My man here isn't even really driving the cars around two. well but that's a good that was a hot pickup is all we call that if I say it when I'm moving to the microphone you know it's real 5 14 workers at this point so our work account now is decreasing as well send a couple more lings trying to get the third base no not quite another repairman coming out flame thrower boy is still doing well 10 more lings because the past 1200 have done so well how many has you lost actually pause it here I'm gonna guess 126 write in the comments what you thought before you you checked it if you have it correct it doesn't count because then you cheated it was 152 holy crap 152 that's a lot of lings I'm impressed that's very impressive and I think really the only 30 40 lings did something which means after that he wasted 110 lings which equals about 50 drones well a bit more even 55 drones the drones that could have been but weren't that is just great this is this is truly showing what money in the wrong places can do it's a very powerful army but weak home infrastructure no healthcare. See, barracks being constructed back at home. I like that the Terran as all just realize, okay, my opponent actually isn't self-aware. He would not pass the mirror test. Let me just re-wall this. I don't need extra barracks. I just need cars and a wall. Yes, this was great. Now, let's read one more time. I humbly request a cross-examination to what I believe is mathematical proof that Terran is imba. I have to admit, my friend, I don't think this was very imbalanced. Your first bailing bust did fantastic. Then you just kept throwing lings and lings and more lings and more lings into a wall, which was defended by Hellion behind it. You bailing busted wrong buildings like 12 times in a row, sometimes splitting up the bailings between different buildings as well. in the end, like awful link micro, prioritizing a star port over Helions while you were in his base, and then just no follow-up, like no follow-up, a follow-up that made absolutely zero sense. You would be the worst politician in the world. And I'd like to tell you, my friend, that you suck QED. All right, my dudes, that's going to be it for this episode of, is it imba, or do I suck? If you did enjoy, don't forget. to subscribe to my YouTube channel as it really does help me a lot. Don't get to smash the like button as well. I can do that too many times or my table might break with this much power in my fist. Yeah, I'll see you all next time for more stuff. Bye-bye.


Positive Mindset And Some Believing! | Is It Imba Or Do I Suck

The last few IODIS episodes I was focusing FAR more on the negative things than the positives. It's time to change that and grant full trust to the next victim of IMBA Zerg. Will I regret this decision...? YOU definitely won't regret smashing those like and subscribe buttons!  If YOU want to file a report feel free to use this form: https://forms.gle/UMK1udoo8Cfunnpt6  IOIDS Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbVNzAA7sXzCMxebUrgKN9dcsWlgQQmGf  Discord: https://discord.gg/uMssEXf5g7 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/harstem My second youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwOm-YjCmcddE9xe9sEpUg Twitter: https://twitter.com/HarstemSc2 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/harstem Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/harstemsc/  Edited by Hamster_Designs: https://twitter.com/Hamster_Designs  #harstem #SC2 #StarCraft2

Dear Harstam, I am a Gold 2 Terran player that faced up against a Gold Zerg player. My opponent played extremely passive, the whole game, and even though I knew of his early third base, through excellent scouting, I found it hard to put pressure on him. Obvious reason for this are the many totally imba defensive mechanics that Zerg has. It is supposed to be the most aggressive of the three races, isn't it? No, I thought Zerg was supposed to be the reactionary race, but we'll leave that for now. First issue is the zergs' vision. Putting overlords in places that are not accessible to ground units might be fine, but creep vision is just broken. I mean, they can still see you after you killed all their structures unless you waste a scan. Next up, queens are just too strong. They are imba, no doubt. My two Madovaks-16-stimmed marinen drop got crushed by three queens. I mean, WTF, crushed by three queens. Okay, we'll write this down, okay? I've noticed that whenever people make claims like this, actually specifying numbers, they're never correct. Finally, I simply cannot comprehend why Zerg gets lurkers, an invisible seat unit. Zerg is not even forced to attack into defensive structures anymore. Lurkers, along swarm hosts, are utterly broken from a race mechanic point of view. I have no clue what a race mechanic point of view is. Is that the guy that in the Formula One races like changes the tires really fast? Maybe this guy is a mechanic for Formula One drivers and from his point of view, lurkers and so on most are utterly broken. That is the only thing that could explain this sentence to me. After calling me a smurf, which proves my far superior skill in this matchup, the Zerg even had time to insult me while using its also Imba, Remax ability to push me back and invade my base. Please share your ancient ire knowledge with humanity so that we can extinguish the Zerg plague once and for all, greets from the smurf. Jerks. Holy crap. It was on a hell of an email. This email was so long. I always put this on like one time speed behind this minute. It took me two and a half minutes to read this. That's insane. We skipped the early game. Life is good. All right. We're following the Tarran. We missed this opening build order, but this seems... Okay, never mind. I thought we could just go ahead and skip, but no, that's not going to be the case. Oh no, we need to actually go back now. Press this button. in a couple of times. What the heck are you doing, my friend? I thought I could cut my working time by a bit, you know? Just like back in the day in school when the teacher would say, if you finish your work early, you can go home early. I thought I could do the same here. I could, you know, skip the first two minutes of me talking about, the barracks being placed, because who at this point doesn't know when to build what structure, you know? But then I see this guy and I already know we're in for another treat here. is still fine, okay? This is just your opener, your Torex opener, your 211 opener, which used to be very popular. I want to say that BN popularized it, but it can also have been someone, I'm pretty sure it was Bion, I'm just going to call, that was Bion. You get your Reaper, you get your reactor, then get your Bres, second guess. Wait, maybe he did do the build correct, and I just haven't seen it in so long that I wasn't used to know. Okay, this is what pisses me off. Why does he build it over here? maybe the spot for Nidas. It's not very good because you can just build a depot and you want your production structures all close together so you can float the factories and the reactors and tech labs can interact with each other. They're all easy around each other. So if you need a different structure, that's how we have some nice micro here with the Reaper. Almost gets a link, not quite though. Forgets his tech lab, but these are small things. Okay. So the complete lack of marine. production is maybe not the smallest. But overall, this isn't even that bad, honestly. I could have skipped it. I should have skipped it. I'm an idiot. Once again, Circus not taking gas, a classic as well. A slight oversaturation in the main. But we're paying attention to the Taron here. He's a bunker. Okay. I'm pretty sure not supposed to get a bunker. I think it's really difficult to die if you play two and one because you have so many freaking Marines. So you can... Hello? Can you get a star port going? Okay. So... So... What? He's going to get mines? Before... Okay, no. So you're supposed to get your stim as well, because that's going to be the factor that delays it usually. If your stim isn't done, you just have 16 Marines in a matter of fact. Then you might as well play double reactor. You can probably get it faster in that case. I'm very confused. This Reaper is putting in some work as well. I love the complete disrespect here with this Reaper, saying, you won't have gas. Wait, actually, Solidi didn't have gas. This is good. This is a good move. Man, here I am, just talking crap already. This is not the right mindset, okay? Let's freshen up a bit. Let's freshen up a bit. Okay, there we go. I need to figure out if this is imbalanced. and we always assume that the email is completely true. I feel like in the last few weeks I've shifted too much into someone with too much cynicism. You know, I'm too negative. I already think the email is going to be a lie. Instead of looking for things that are true, I'm looking for things that are false. So instead, I'm going to be, I'm just looking at his claims. You know, and then we'll see if they're true or not. That's going to be the player. What is this? This is fantastic. Nine more workers. Okay, so this is supposed to hit a lot faster than... Wait, he built a Tech Lab with a Starport? Did he start the Starport over here? I feel like this game is giving me hallucinations. How... Okay. No, he... What? Wait, so what happens here? Wait, so what happens here? He flies the fact... Okay, well, that explains a lot. He just rallied it to the natural. And now he can get Matterfax. And now it's gonna look like this is fine, but he's gonna hit too late still. This is not the proper timing that man. I'm, oh wait, but, you know, just because he's hitting too late doesn't mean that Zerg isn't in balance. Lurkers are still invisible seat units and Swarmost from a race mechanics point of view are extremely broken. I just have, okay, he's going to hit about, like, what is it, 30 seconds too late maybe? You can hit the timing that he's currently doing with a triple command center opener. So basically he just gave, what is it? this? Ah! Here I once again fell into a negative spiral but no, in case that his opponents puts a Nidus over here and then pops out a lurker, you want to have not one but two turrets. It's a backup turret for the Nidus Lurker and you obviously do that before your opponent even started their layer. I think that makes a lot of sense. If you don't think that makes a lot of sense, leave it down in the comments. We know, and my, he's really afraid of mutas. Someone played one-based muta against him, and now every single game, rather than finding a build order that hits a minute earlier, he decides to throw down four turrets. You just love to see it. Okay, here's the three queens. There's a spine crawler as well, so it's not only three queens. And also there is three more queens. So it was six queens, a spine crawler and two spores. Now, it... It's a seventh queen even on the way. This wasn't really... What did he say in the email? He said, My two MEDevacs 16-stimmed marinen drop got crushed by three queens. Technically... Okay, hear me out. Technically, he isn't wrong. he just didn't mention the other queens there. You know, if I go out with a group of friends and I'm with 10 people and I tell my dad, hey, I went out with John and James, and John and James were two of the 10 people, I'm not really lying, am I? That's kind of what happened here. He just didn't mention all the other things that were there as well. it did get crushed by three queens. It also got crushed by seven queens, but also three queens, technically also one queen was there. I like the way. This is, so far, we're only finding truth here, guys. And see, that's the difference between looking for lies or looking for truth. No matter what you're looking for, you'll find, you'll find it, you'll find it, just like in life. You'll always find what you're looking for eventually, especially if you're Tom Cruise. And this is Mission Impossible 7. Okay, third command center in an interesting location. This is really cool because he checked in his base and it's like, okay, what is the spot where I need to fly furthest to my third base? And he found it. I think it might even be further away than this one, which is impressive. I didn't think that was possible. A solid early game, SimCity is really helping him out here as well with putting that command center as far away as possible. he's preparing for I don't actually know what he's really probably a push with tanks feels like he the only thing he got in the past two minutes it's just like oh he got like I guess he lost the first of matter of fact so he really just got these extra marines a tank does he have an extra barracks now there's barracks three and four okay this is the one thing that's been pissing me off lately is people send me replace where they don't abide by proper barracks regulations okay you go from two into three into five or you go from three into five and then afterwards you go into eight stop making four stop making six i don't want to see that type of crap okay i want to see either three barracks two barracks or five barracks the next time someone builds four barracks you're out i quit the replay i'm done i'll go do something else play rocket league or something start making jokes about that the cars and the balls no one will like it i don't know much about the game Alright, do you have an armory yet? There's an armory. He can start plus two theoretically, but this macro is simply too clean. He has a good army, though. This Zerg player is actually getting blasted. Like, this Zerg doesn't have any army, does he? But never mind, 17 roaches. Still, against 17 roaches against four tanks and 30 Marines, as a Zerg player, you're going to go absolutely die. Like, there's no way. It's a 15 freaking larvae, though. But this game is very passive. Next time, someone sends me a report. play, make it an aggressive one. Some fighting power, man. We're gonna see stuff happen. We're not here to watch grass grow. Although that also is a fun activity. I don't think this one actually grows. It doesn't even move in the wind. Look at these things, they're moving in the wind. These bad boys, terrible physics. Awful. Pathetic. These also move in the wind. But the wind on these is different than the direction on the wind on this thing. Oh, but maybe these are moved by these little cockwheels. Imagine having the time to do this because nothing is happening. Literally, he's doing nothing. What actually is he doing? You just, okay, this is his first person. He throws on two depots and just looks at his army. Fort base. There's a couple of marines in the main. Oh, here we go. Start moving on the map, unseach everything. Should I maybe scout forward, see if anything's there, Have any units around the map for any type of vision? Not really necessary. Hmm, is there anything here I need? I see a mine. Let me start a depot wall in a random location, but not really finish a wall, just start a wall. Take an overlord, make sure my army doesn't split. Perfect, perfect, this is looking solid. Okay, I have about 40 seconds until 2-2 finishes. Okay, nice. Okay, nice. Do I want to wait for three upgrades that are currently building? No, probably not. My opponent decks in me. Okay, we win the game. Fantastic. Game has ended. Game is over. Well, it should be at least, right? If we look at the armies here, there's two lurkers, but I don't think they have seismic spines. So with the crap range, we're actually completely useless. He has a crap ton of scans as well. Not because he has been saving scans, but because he hasn't, he forgot the mule. That's a big difference there. I know that. I can feel that. He should have had way more money already. You know what? Let me just not siege my tanks for a little bit. That is fine. It's fine. Longest range unit in the game. Bam, just like that. Okay. Another fight. 2-2 has finished. Okay, he just absolutely blood. He's actually up 50 supply. We were looking at the Terran, right? I'm asking this because there's been more than one time where I might have made an IOTIS from the wrong point of view. Where sometimes I had some real fire jokes in there. Smurf? He is blue. It is possible, guys. But which one would it be? You have the one with the red hat. It's the king smurf. A big smurf. I mean, this game is actually just over. I'm not sure why we're still watching this. He rallies another 35 Marines across the map. He has 57 Marines against 10 hydras, two roaches. Is he just going to walk into two lurkers and never scan? Please tell me this is not the case. How many kills will this do they're good? 14 kills, all of a Marine, 15, 16, 17. This one has eight. Together these guys killed legit 25 Marines. probably some tanks in there as well. He has scans, no, yeah. He has actual full energy. He has 12 scans right now. Maybe he doesn't realize that the lurkers were attacking him, and he was just wondering why all of his units were disappearing. You know, after this, he's still light years ahead. He has like 3.5,000 resources in the bank. Sure, a lot of that is gas. Okay, this is also one of my favorite tarrant things. Oh, well. Censor it. Censor it. Uh, this is it, this is so great. The fourth base, he has 1.6k gas in the bank and his priority, you know, before adding any more workers on minerals, let me take these double gases real fast guys, let me just take those real fast. Throw down three mules. Is this guy just going to win the game with two lurkers? He does have the seismic spines now? Okay, well, he gets eight lurkers. There's absolutely no way that he's just going to straight up borrow into his opponent. The funny thing is that that Zerg probably thought he already won, not realizing his opponent was still 20 worse head. He's just not going to scan. Okay, here we go, here's a scan. It's two of them. What? What is this? What was that decision making? Look at this tank, look at this guy, okay? He's in range, no? Why can I see the range? He's in range. He's in range. He's like, sir, I got them in range. What should I do? Move back. Sir, they're not moving. You, sure. Move back. It's like, what is this move going to do? If he was going to move into you, he will just move a little further now. It's not like this matters. They were under siege. He gets a raven as well. He's like, I don't think I have enough scans. Meanwhile, on the main and the natural. God, I wish I could see this guy's Hotkeys because I'm pretty sure he has, he just doesn't have his command center's hotkey. He also hasn't been. building workers for a long time. Gets plus two on tanks. It's working of a single factory probably, so probably should be adding a second one if you're playing against Lurker. A lot of the pros even get triple factory, and eventually you go into like Ghost, add a couple of lips as well. Ghost to EMP, the Vipers and sniper a couple of lurkers, perhaps. Okay, don't forget, Terran is still actually light years ahead. If he had any idea of how to get map control or how to get any vision on the map, What's he gonna do? Is he gonna tell them turrets, you think? Okay, look, he walks in a line up to it. Yes, auto turrets. None of the tanks are sieged. The planetary is doing a lot of work here. Man, this is a great fire. Accidentally spreads out the Marines properly as well. Do you think he doesn't realize that Lurker's Don't? that lurkers don't have infinite range and that maybe he thinks at the moment the first spines connect the lurker memory just knows where the opponent's unit is and we'll just keep attacking it until his opponent's unit is. Look at... He has 5K 4K in the bank. I have no clue what this game is, but I love it. What? He's up 30 supply. He's floating legit 8K resources. All of his fights have either been without his tank or with his tanks in the lurkers. Like this fight was with everything in the lurkers and then the tanks being slightly too far in the back. The fight before was with the tanks too far in the back. The fight over here was with the tanks in lurker range. Does he not realize that tanks outrange lurkers? Is that something maybe instead of making this entire video, I just just should have told him about the scan hotkey and i was just like send them a message like hey tanks outrange lurkers i feel like these are the only two pieces of advice this guy really needs like and perhaps try adding some production facilities once you start floating more than six thousand resources before that you're still okay now he loses to the to the lings resources than him. Shows you how efficient Terran is at trading, usually. Especially his first few fights were crazy. She keeps rallying forward as well. Probably thinking, man, this game is really over, not realizing his opponent is on 46 workers and has no bank. Like, if he can just stabilize, he'd still be fine. He just keeps building ravens as well. No matter facts? Pure raven. And I know that he does it for detection, but he has so many scans, and he also just could have built 12 new orbitals with the money he'd been floating this entire game. Like, Metafacts are just better. You need to add metaphax, I get a crap ton of tanks, ghost, then some liberators and you're absolutely fine. Well, in this case, just a single tank in a position that could shoot, probably would have just been enough this game. Okay, this is... This is awful. This was actually awful. I hate this. Okay? Our our player didn't play that bad. He actually didn't play that bad. I think he actually might have been outplaying his opponent. Honestly, he was winning. He did a tank push. He practiced a tank push. But the moment anything that isn't a basic unit comes on the map, I think he just doesn't know how units work. I think he actually doesn't know how the lurker is countered. He just doesn't know that tanks outrange them. He doesn't know. that lurkers can shoot up. How is your response, Mess Ravens versus this? When you're constantly having enough scans to see the entire map. He could literally scan the entire map and still have four extra scans to scan just on top of the lurkers. I want to read your thing one more time. The Zerg had time to insult me while using its remax ability to push me back and invade my base. The Zerg didn't max out a single time. He was constantly down like 50 supply or 40 supply, but you just didn't kill the lurkers. There were lurkers in there. There were from the start of the game, probably like triple-digit kills. It's like American sniper is nothing compared to these guys. You just stood there in range of the lurker. You did nothing. Why did you even mention the overlords in places that are not accessible to ground and the creep? He had like half a creep tumor this guy. None of these things were the issue. What do you mean overlords in places not accessible? You just died to... He could have built two lurkers and won the game with two lurkers. You wouldn't have done anything about it. You just would have lost. You lost 60 army supply against legit two lurkers and a roach. How am I supposed to have? help someone like you? How smooth does your brain have to be? I just don't understand it. It's obvious to me that this is not imbalanced, but that you suck. All right. That's going to be it for today's episode of Is It Inba or Do I Suck if you did enjoy this? Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Don't forget to press the like button as well as these things help. Yeah, I'll see you next time as well. For more. videos on this subject. Bye bye.


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Dear Harstam, in my opinion, Protoss race is too forgiving. There are overcharged for your battery if you aren't ready for attack. Boost if you are behind in anything. E dot T dot C dot. In this replay I was miles ahead in every way possible, but Protoss had disruptors and I couldn't do anything. I tried splitting and focusing with a single S, but one or two shots kill my entire army. P.S., I played two games against this guy and actually won the first time, but in this game he had better disruptors. the shots. That's why I lost. You have to admit that it is imba. Name, softer, race, Terran, leak, diamond, MMR 3.5 were on the EU server. The replay was saved in Cyrillic, so I'm assuming this guy is Russian. Let's up straight into it. We have, in the bottom right, spawning, the blue Terran player. We have Safter, the man, the mid, the legend, the person, in charge of sending me this replay. Now I am extremely curious to see how my man Saffler is going to play this game. He says he was miles ahead. Miles, not just a little bit, not just even. No, no, he was miles ahead. And then his opponent, with the nasty Kronoboose, managed to make a comeback. Now, these are some things that Terran say very often, right? You can make a comeback with Kronobo boost. But actually, the thing is, is that without Kronobo boost, Toss would always be. behind because of how mules work, right? So it's not really so much to be ahead. It is to be to stay even. If you're behind, you're, it kind of stays the same. That's at least what tends to happen. The reason why TOS tends have slightly more eco is because their nexus goes down slightly faster than the Terrans most of the time. So that's why they have like maybe one and a half extra worker initially. People always think it's because of Corona Boost. Yeah, obviously Chrono Boost helps but without Chrono Boost it really wouldn't be the case. So, I'll just turn on the sound a bit of my own headset. We have my man softer scouting his opponent, sees everything and it's probably going to be too late for a block on the natural here which is interesting because his scout timing was pretty much after Depot which is some of the fastest scout timing I've seen in my life or like slightly after Depot like a 17 scout. If you scout this early, you either eBay block or you steal the gas or something. I don't actually know, but I've never seen it being played like this where you don't do anything with that scout. Interesting start, that's for sure. Now we have Reaper coming out already. We see a single gas and the CC should be built relatively soon from now. There comes the command center. Yep, there we go. Pylon won't be able to quite block that. Well, it's going to be able to block the initial location. This should be a cancel on this pylon, by the way, at this point. That's uh yeah software should take out this probe I was gonna say he just runs past that that would be very sad and not very good at all All right stalker for the tost no warp gate yet what do we have here for our Terran player no second gas complete lack of workers so far Okay, it builds two at the same time a slight slight delay there on the workers okay I'm going to going to be paying a lot of attention to how quickly he will be building workers because he says he got miles ahead and then lost because of Kronobo boost very very often very often when Terrans tell me this look at their replay and they have like two command centers not building SUVs for three four minutes in the game it's like really Kronobo boost that's what they're gonna blame this on like that's definitely odd my dudes that's definitely not it but we'll see we'll see maybe the Kronobo boost you know is stronger than I imagine it to be. Or then I know it is. At least I believe it is. Let me see the Toss not getting any upgrades. He had no warp gate. Let me see. Ooh, Twilight and Robo at the same time. Okay, okay. Techlapse trade away on this factory. What happened with the Marine? Did he skip his first Marine? Did he lose it? Okay, he didn't lose anything. So he skipped first Marine. Oh, right, he played gas first. So slightly less economical opener, but it's going to allow him to do that type of stuff. Like Reaper into Reactor, fast factory. It's not really using the factory right now. Curious to see what he wants to use it for. It's going to be a cyclone. As this pylon is being taken out, we have at least decent SDV production. Two stalkers move across the map. Reaper's still alive, got a single kill. Is this a wall? I guess it is, right? I never actually have walled it. To be fair, I veto submarine. This map is awful for Protoss. Just terrible, terrible, terrible for Protoss. Prison? Okay, well, this is a build order. I'm absolutely not familiar with what the Produs is doing over here. He's going to be trying to trade a little bit with those Marines, but sadly for him, the Cyclone comes out. Good start here for Shafter, honestly. He is indeed going to be, as he said it, miles ahead. He will be able to take out at least one worker here if he decides to Micro's Reaper. He does decide the Micro's Reaper. If he would focus fire, you'd probably be able to get like two, three here. But it doesn't really seem to be the case. Oh, there we go. Yeah, attacks a full help one as well. Now, one of my favorite things to do is when the Terrans are controlling their one Reaper, is to keep an eye on their minerals here, you know? You just want to see like, hey, what's happening with the mineral count while you're microing this Reaper? I don't think he's gone back to his base in a bit now. Okay, now he's like, oh, crap. Oh, let me throw everything here. He's super supply block. Needs to build three depots at the same time. Probably can just throw down a command center, yeah, and two extra barracks at the same time. Just do it, buddy. I know you want to. Don't pretend like this was all planned. Just another CC. Just do it, man. I know you can. I know you can. But yeah, softter actually is in a very, very good spot right now. Softr is actually going to be just way ahead. equal worker count, third base is faster. The only thing he's really lacking is a second and third wax. It's not like he doesn't have the money for it, but he's just saving right now for bad times, you know. Oh, he's playing Mac. Oh, okay, okay. So he's going to be taking the gases before Barracks 2 and 3, which means he's going to be playing Mac. And makes sense, of course. I kind of should have seen that coming. The barracks... All right. All right, Sifter. You got me again. This is awful. Now, the reason this is terrible is because whenever you play bio, the most important thing is the timing on the stim and the combat shield. The longer you delay the extra barracks, the later those things will be, the longer toss has to kind of recover from whatever damage you did initially because they won't have to be afraid of anything. Any army that consists of bio that doesn't have stim and combat shield, It's just pretty weak. Sometimes there's some tank pushes with just Tim or tank push with just combat shield. Like there is some of them, but they're very, very rare. And this definitely isn't one of them. Like, this is not a builder. This also wasn't planned because he was continuously floating seven, 800 minerals. Taking the extra gases before barracks two and three is just awful. It's objectively wrong. Like, there's no discussion about this. You're not going to find a Terran who will be able to defend this. unless perhaps you paid them enough money. So, Sifter, if you're very rich and you want to disagree with me, then perhaps you turmoil or clam if you write them a big check, we'll be able to help you out there to humiliate me in public. But otherwise, you're wrong, buddy. This is not the way. Gets double eBay as well. I do like that. And we're going to be going into a, it seems to be a bit of a macro game. Now, he's still up in workers. He's on 44, which is fine because he has triple, triple mulech as well and he with triple cc he can actually continue building workers very very fast those continues losing uh i think a bunch of workers or well actually not the cases he has the battery here it's going to lose one or two is there no observer at all i don't think this one's going to move i think we're going to be building an observer from here, yep. So we have the unmicrode bench, he doing absolutely nothing. It's impressive. He knows there's nothing in the main. It's like, you know what? You know what would be better? I either have a base that is undefended completely, or I have a base where his stalkers are and where there's a battery to defend the probes. And my man softer, with the genius decision making that he has shown so far, decides to not only not go to the main, but afterwards starts attacking the stalkers rather than the probes because I think a couple of the probes here are vulnerable. This is just impressive to see. He's really, uh, you know how sometimes people, you'll look at a replay of yourself and you think to yourself, this wasn't the most efficient use of my unit. My man softer here, he will look at this replay and he can honestly tell himself, this was the least efficient use of my units. This is the worst. If you have a skill of efficient and not efficient, he'd be at the zero mark. This would be, you know, I'm not sure if you guys have ever had to, what do you call it, with a thermometer. So you get like a thermometer and you need to know like how to make the scale of it. What you do is you have like your zero mark, which is like water that is about to freeze and you have the boiling. And in between, there's a scale of like 100 degrees Celsius in between. Okay, that's, I had to do that in science class once. Awful, but I hate trawling and stuff. But a ruler, it's all difficult and fractions. God knows it in Finnish elementary school. So very difficult. Don't worry about that. Now, imagine instead of a thermometer, we have a skill of efficiency. My man's scepter would be on the absolute. far left or on the bottom wherever your zero point would be because this Benchy where did you go I died already could have actually single-handedly clear this entire base or this base well no there's a battery here so just this base but that's actually what you should have done during this by the way I remember looking at the clock at 630 he hasn't built a single worker not a single one so this this this leaves the question for us what What was he doing? He wasn't macroing. He was legit floating 1K. He hasn't built a single worker. I hope to God he wasn't microing his Benchy because I actually feel like just hold positioning it there or just shift queuing it in would have been better than what he did just now. What was he doing? I can't actually figure it out. I just don't know. I could go in first person vision and figure it out, but without doing that, I don't think it's possible to see what he did because I don't think he did anything. Maybe someone rang the doorbell, he had to get it. Forgot to press the pause button, and he just came back. He's like, oh, let me float my third down. A good call, though. At this point, he's not actually that far ahead. Economically, is he? Like, his mining isn't that great, especially because he also isn't throwing down mules. He's... Like, you can't complain about the energy that your opponent has if you never use your own energy, you know? You can't say, oh, my eco is worse because Kronobus. No, your eco is worse because you... you legit have nine mules that aren't being used right now eight three over here three over here and two over here it's legit eight mules like that's an insane amount of money and you're not using it also you forgot to build workers for a very very very long time this is absolutely nothing to do with macro what you're showcasing here I'm just surprised I'm so confused I Like I see, I have this cool overlay where you see the red arrows and the blue arrows and who's mining more. And now finally softer is mining more because he dropped two mules. Mind you, two mules. This guy had eight freaking mules ready. And just with two mules, he manages to already beat his opponent. Here, double arrow. That means he's way above. I don't know what these arrows mean. I have the wrong overlay. It's okay. Happens to the best. That's also why we have the ESL Pro Tour logo here. Trust me, guys. This is not an ESL Pro Tour game, all right? It might look very high level at times, but this is not an ESL Pro Tour game. We have another barracks. How many do we have so far? We had four. The SimCity, once again. We got to stop this, all right? Like, I'm done with this type of SimCity. Like, eBay's go over here, barracks go over here. You build them in a line, so you have some space. Like, this looks ugly, man. Please never become a city. liner, please don't. Even though we've been ripping on our man Sifter for the past few minutes, he still is in a fine spot. How did he create this army with what he has, by the way? Look at, let's just pay some close attention, okay? This is an army consisting of 48 Marines. That is two times 24. Okay. He has one, two tacklers. He has one, two tacklers. And he's, what's this? Another tech lab on the way. He's been consistently producing Marines out of these. Finally, he's building some marauders, but consistently been building Marines out of these up until this point. Why? Like, really, why? Why does he think that Marines, if Marines would be the call, which I don't think they are in this case, I think more marauders is almost always better, why would he get the double tech labs? I guess he needs to get stim and combat shield first. But then you use them for marauders. Stop with this just marine stuff. It dies so hard against Colossi, against Archons, against Storm. Like, Marines have very good DPS, but the moment any type of AOE hits the field, they start sucking so hard, like Colossi absolutely poop on Marines. It's not something you want happening to your Marines, man. That's not what you join the Navy for it. Many people say they join the Navy to help people, or they didn't know what to do after high school and the military was there for them, none of them, when asked in a 2012 survey, said, I would like to be pooped on by a colossus. Zero. Nul. Niantos. Nada. Actually, none. Absolutely none. Now, that's painful because he does have a lot of Marines. Getting some marauders. The nice thing, though, is that he can, can kind of hide behind this tanks. So what you do here is you hide with your marines behind your tanks for your tanks to the big work. They're shooting at something. The opponent has to charge into you. Then you go. This is brilliant. Now this is this is how you can see that someone is a strategic mastermind. Okay. This is this is actually beautiful to see. He puts these, I kind of want to pause for this, but oh my god, this, yeah, this engagement is just high level stuff. Okay. He puts the tanks back far enough that they can barely hit the outside structures, and then he moves his Marines so far forward that the Colossi and even the stalkers, I even saw some zealots get shots off without being hit by these tanks. That's just impressive. It's completely unaware of his surroundings, these Marines. They're like, you know what? We're going to fight these colossus, and we don't care if we die. These tanks in the back are like, guys, we drive us forward just a little bit, so you know we cover the area that actually matters as well. This toss is doing a good job, by the way, here. Let's not fail to mention that, of kiting in and out of that. And you can move two of them forward. You don't have to unseach all of them at the same time and then be afraid that he jumps on top of you. You can move even one at a time if you want. If you're really slow, like, so put one. Just put it over here. And then another one over here. And then the rest of your army, you can just kind of split it around. And with the tanks, you have the best range. force your opponent to move into you. I love that he drives forward with another tank and he's like, you know what? We're going to go a little bit closer to this gateway because this really is the goal, right? Meanwhile, I'm diving on top of the disruptor. Look at these tanks. These tanks. Two kills, one kill, one kill, zero kills. These tanks have been here for two minutes and they have nothing. They're not attacking anything. It's Colossus on eight. 16 on one of the disruptors. I saw it. Like, this is truly amazing. Move him. He also doesn't stim half the time. Okay, here we go. A stim. Oh, two of the tanks are shooting. Now, because he's getting charged on, all the tanks are fighting. This was actually the worst setup I've seen in my life. He also has so many freaking metaphags. This tank? there was a tank in the back was this here the entire time of course it was in case this area was too far forward I'm surprised we don't see like a tank over here to defend the rocks or something like that we wouldn't want these nice stones to go to waste with some nasty salad that's a good point defend those rocks body okay planetary now after all of this after literally doing everything wrong in the past eight and a half minutes, he's still ahead. He's completely fine. He hasn't taken a good engagement. His macro has been awful. His unit comp sucks. He's ahead. He's winning this, okay? This is a okay. He loves this. A couple of zealots going for some harassed. We'll get cleaned up, obviously. They moved into the army rather than into the next row. A little bit of a mistake from the Toss. Toss is getting an army with a lot of disruptors right now, the way and I'm kind of liking it I'm kind of liking it even though against tanks usually disruptors actually aren't that great because tanks okay so in theory disruptors actually outrange them but because the positioning is very very tight it doesn't tend to quite work that way because if you shoot in range it's pretty tricky and you need very good vision of where the tank is so if Terran is good about denying vision then tanks I think are slightly better because of how scan works Um, we have 3-3 on the way, the super upgrades is enhanced shockwave. Yeah, enhanced shockwave. That's an upgrade right there, guys. Now that's an upgrade right there. Okay, we see Templar. I like that as well. I do like some Templar. In a prism, that's good. Softter has, what's this map vision right now? Very, very good map vision, you see? So this is kind of what you want to see. If you're a Terrant player, then it's very important that you see absolutely nothing on the map. Now, this might sound sarcastic, but it actually isn't because you know how sometimes if you have an animal with a very small brain, if there's too many things coming towards that animal, like too many ways that it can get excited, it might just overheat, you know, and it dies. The same thing can happen with a Terran. a Terran has a very small brain size. This is overgeneralizing, but on average. Research has been done by the Harstam Institute. The average brain size of a Terran is about five times smaller that of a Protoss player. So if you give a Terran too much information, he overheats and he can faint or, in the worst case, accidentally uninstall Starcraft. So it's very important for Terran to have absolutely zero info. And you see he's doing a very good job at that. He sees absolutely nothing. He has no clue where his opponent's army is. He accidentally saw that there's a fort, which is a little bit painful. This is probably going to cause quite some panic here for the Terran because that's a lot of information for him already. But for the Terran right now, it's important that he doesn't see this army move into position or over here or just attack here or maybe a prism in here. Like spreading out marines or sensor towers and things like those is very, very dangerous. So if you're a Terran player and you know of yourself, hey, I have a small brain, I know I tend to overheat when I get too much info, be sure to copy softer here because that's really a play. Look, this is the type of movement you expect from a guy who has absolutely nothing around the map, but that is not a bug that's actually a feature. Okay, don't, no tank siege, because who really wants that anyway? Usually when softer siege is tanks, they're so far out of range that for him it's probably actually better that he just leaves them unseached because then they can't be in crap positions. It's like, you know what? These tanks are good over here. Let me move forward with my tiny army into this massive army. Sounds like a good plan. Okay, this is good. The unseeges has one K gas in the bank, like the good terrain that he is, builds another command center. I don't even know what this location is, but I love it. His building placement has been absolutely fantastic. He just, he sees an empty spot and he just wants to build something. You know, it doesn't really matter if it makes any sense. And I was like, oh, there's space here. Maybe the next sensor tower, the next turret will be over here. A couple of depots on the left side or an armory here. You know, you never know. As long as he, if he's there, he's focused and he thinks he needs that structure. He'll build it right where he sees it. Okay? He'll be the right where he sees it. Now, we have softer moving in to attack the fort base. He gets some accidental vision of his opponent. Now, let's have a look at this. Is this going to be better? So last time what we did is we made sure to be very far back with our tanks. No, no, he's cutting back. This is, okay, this is good. This is what you want to be doing. You trick your opponent into attacking into your tanks. Look at these tanks. They're actually putting in some work. And even though this fight probably shouldn't have been taken, the way he took this fight was a million times better than the other fight he took. Actually a million times better. The only problem is that he... invested a little bit too much in Metafax and not quite enough in things that actually do damage that is an issue if you have three Vikings and 12 medevacs remaining after a fight that could be considered bad but I don't want to be a party pooper here for Safter he's struggling hard enough already in his game I love this one as well by the way builds one CC over here another one over here Oh man the building positioning. This is just, this is just beautiful. You love to see it. You love to see it. What are we at for the TOS here? TOS is gaining an advantage in economy again. His upgrades are looking solid. He has disruptors a fifth base on the way. This observer has literally seen everything. Sometimes people say, I've seen it all. But this observer actually has seen it all. He's seen everything move out from the natural. Oh no, sorry. He missed these, this barracks. He didn't see. But everything else, he pretty much had seen move out. A little bit of a drop, some solid multitask. Is he only looking at the drop right now? This sometimes happens, where Terence only look at the drop, but they forget to do the rest. And then they pretend like they multitask. That's one of my favorite things in the game. Now, here's Don Shimabak. There's a way better army. Army that can actually find what? Hello? Oh, throws down a couple of storms. I think we should just aim move into this, honestly. He shoots a nice disruptor shots on six of his own zealots, but yeah, it's way too far ahead at this point. Yeah, this game is just pretty over. The game is actually just pretty over. Command Center finally landed, though. I like that both players take this one rather than just the one over here. That's probably a bit closer. And now I kind of start thinking, you know? Like, huh. Was this really true? Is this really true what softer said here? You know? Let me just open what he said in. He said, in this replay, I was miles ahead in every way possible. But Protoss had disruptors and I couldn't do anything. Now, I'm afraid that that isn't completely the truth there, softer. Okay. You were miles ahead. Okay. You were in a really good spot. You were up in workers, you had a faster command center, then you decided to stop building workers for two minutes straight, legitimately two minutes straight. You made a pushout, which probably should have hit a bit faster already, because you completely forgot about your barracks, consisted of only Marines, attacking out of tank range, into batteries, colossi, and disruptor. And even after that, you were still ahead. Then you decide to get zero map vision, lose a base, because half of your tanks are unseached. Your army composition consists of 12 medevacs, three Vikings, and no ground units that do any damage whatsoever. I like to blame this on the disruptor. I'd love to. I love to say, Sauter, you know what? You're right. You're correct. But I'd be lying, Sauter. And I don't like lying. That's what you did in your email. You lied. And I don't like that. And for that, you suck. All right. That's going to be it. for today's episode of Is It Inba? Or do I suck? If you also believe you have something imbalanced, don't forget to send in your own imbalance complaint from down in the description below. If you believe I was wrong about my call here about softer, also leave a comment down below, so I know exactly which people do the ban in my YouTube. And that's actually going to be it. Please like this video and subscribe as well, as these things are fantastic. See next time. Bye-bye. I'm