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Dear Harstam, I played against a turtle-Terran who made a wall with planetary and built 348-204-823 turrets around his bases. They just made defensive planetaries and turrets. How am I ever supposed to attack into this? widow mines being burrowed and unburrowed to chase and kill my tempest? Can we talk about BC's teleporting constantly? I am convinced TVP is unplayable. I hope you come to conclusion that Terran is Inba. Sincerely, a victim of Terran. Name Moistchip XX, Race Protoss, Leak Platinum, MMR 3.3. I know this player. It is not your average prox player because this player happens to be my lovely girlfriend as well, going by the nickname of Moistchip XX, or chicken. She's complaining about, what was it again? turrets, planetaries, widow mines, BCs teleporting constantly, and TVP being unplayable in general. So let's have a cheeky look, shall we? So this is going to be the first episode of, is it Inba or do I sleep on the couch? As we have here in the bottom right, the beautiful chicken, top left, Sid Luxor, Terran player nasty of course builds planetary stirruits makes battle cruisers It's not the type of guy you want to invite to your party In general don't invite Terrans to your parties constantly complaining that there's not enough salt In the food that you made This beer doesn't taste like there's any salt in it You know I need to keep my sodium high So I would not recommend Inviting Terrans to your parties guys They're just scrolling through this game a little bit, right? Just don't want to focus too much on the start because it seems like the juicy stuff is about to happen later on in the game. I'm just going to keep a close look on the build order here, which seems to be fine. 20 Cybercore, 20 Nexus, 21 pylon. Well, 21 Nexus, I guess. Still, it's a little late and it's a probe late. The pylon isn't being built at all, but there's no probes being built before the gas either. like this build order it isn't tight you know it isn't tight that i'd recommend watching maybe one of my guides on how to open now it gets interesting we see a bunker being placed here behind the mineral line okay reaper comes in so this bunker's going to be quite annoying what you're doing chicken pock puck okay robo on the low ground i don't i don't mind it i don't mind it Probeman tries to run away, dies. Okay, now Chicken is aware of the bunker behind the mineral line. What is the response here? So the correct response is single battery over here. So you can shoot with the stalker while still being healed. Or over here is also fine. You can shoot from here. And then just chrono boost out of stalker. Continue building probes, rally them into the main base. What are we seeing? Second gate. Second stalker should, or the stalker should probably already be out at this point, so it's a little bit late. We see no probe production whatsoever. So without this bunker doing anything, right now the worker count is basically even which is really good for Terran because they have two mules also Terran is already already mining from his natural you can also decide to send the adeptor cross straight away once you see this once your stalker is out because adept is kind of useless against this building anyway like hardly there's any damage stalker is taking its time still you feel like we haven't seen a worker being built in a past minute or so chronobustan immortal and two batteries This is not a good response, okay? This is... There used to be this guy who, I think he started trading with like a red paper clip or something like that. And then eventually he got like a... He kept trading it in for a thing every single time. I feel like this is the start of one of those trades. I think he ended up with like a four-year record deal right, like a two million dollar villa or something like that after like a bunch of trades. Like this is the first trade. This dude invested a bunker which he said, salvaged and a Reaper, and he got out of it, two batteries, a chrono-boosted immortal, and his opponent, forgetting to build probes for four minutes. Like, that's one hell of a trade deal. This, my man Sid Luxor, he didn't only read art of the deal. Like, he wrote part of it. People always wondered who the ghost writer was. Now, we got him. Mr. Sid Luxor over here. Congratulations. New York Times bestseller. And also an accomplished StarCraft player, apparently. walking into a cheeky supply block here as well as chicken gets the third gas one of the good rules you can always follow is that you should never get your gases before you have at least 12 or 13 probes on the minerals in the natural or you're just going to be way under saturated on the minerals especially i guess if you're going to be supply blocked for the duration that your gas is building we see twilight robo bay no chrono boost usage we have a single pylon being used in a rather optimal way. This pylon is powering absolutely every single building that is important. Might want to add a second one. Add the tasteless pylon to the artosis pylon there. Observer. What's this observer going to show? This gas, of course, a very important gas. Important assimilator to keep an eye on here. We also have one observer on the other side. Seize the turret being built. Look at her. Look at her. Look at it. Well, I don't think This will be in vision range Won't it be? This is definitely in vision range Okay, you might want to move that Unless Sid Luxur decides He's building a planetary on the natural He's defending his lead That he got in the early game with the bunker He's still banking on that lead in the early game Still banking on that early game lead We now have a colossi out Do you have any scouting info? So we see a starboard with a tech lab, okay? This indicates Benchie slash Battlecruiser slash Raven. At this point, you're probably expecting Mac as well if there's no like Tech Lab researching Stim yet, like at least some Macy composition. There's two Banshees here already. Let's see what the response is. The response is putting the observer in observer mode completely against the side. So you only use half of the observer mode. That's very, very smart. It's a minimizing efficiency on this observer. Rather than putting it here where it still sees this, this side. as well and also catches part of this. Now you need probably double or triple the amount of observers if you place them like this. That's absolutely brilliant. You love to see it. This type of reverse efficiency. I've heard of reverse engineering before, but reverse efficiency is a new term that definitely can be used for this observer placement. It's luckily going to see the Banshees. Let's take a look at this quick Protoss response here. Responses to get another colossi. And take a look at, oh, would you look at that? pulls away the workers solid moves actually actually a good move you know what i can i can appreciate that then decides to it's not time yet to kill these uh these banshees it might be better to protect the cybercore oh the pylon this is this is the most important pilot oh no this is like the one ring in lord of the rings it's the one pylon once this one gets destroyed it's all over no blink managed to let the Banshees out of here as well. You want to send these pros back to work and get the pylon, the one pylon back in action. I meant Smeagle accidentally ate the ring here. He needs to cuff it up. Build that pylon. Hello? Literally three production structures not doing anything. What is our production? We have three gateways. We have three gateways and one robo. So 50% of our production and all of our production and all of our upgrade structures right now are working this pylon is that going to cover everything I don't think it covers this gateway could be wrong though I don't think it does observer did it change position look at that that's that's beautiful okay so right now we see two more CCs being built we still have absolutely no clue what is happening except that there's a tank here so far we've seen three units well four or five units one two three four now and then the two benches that actually went back home again as well. What's on the way? Is it battle cruisers? Okay, yeah, obviously it's going to be battle cruisers. If you're not pre-ignited, we see more command centers. Now, this looks very tricky, but we should not forget that whenever you see a planetary, you can't really, you can't easily attack into it. So what you do instead is you just get a bunch of extra bases. You can delay the gases on your third base, you just get a fourth base here, you get a fifth base here, you just get a crap ton of workers. The thing is that chicken hasn't been doing that. Chicken wants to win in a game of technology. But she's behind in technology. Right now she's in the Bronze Age. The other guy's already thinking about nukes. So in that case, it's probably finally this one gets taken out. It's been there for four minutes. Like at this point, you should be working at getting better economy. You know, if you have one guy that has a button that can launch a nuke, you have 12 cavemen with bats, you're still going to be completely fine. Getting something like a zealat, Charlott, Archon Immortal, maybe. some stalkers in case of Benchie it's going to be completely fine and you can deny a fort base with that forever now it's only useful to deny a fort base if you yourself already have a fort base because otherwise you're just keeping the other person on the same amount of basis so you want to get up in economy and then deny outside bases it's going to be hard to attack into that I'll admit that even though probably can cancel these and at this point you probably should be close to being maxed as a Protoss player okay quite the case. Colossi also double fleet beacon. Where are you? Once we're getting the Annie impulse crystals and flux veins at the same time. Very smart move. Something we don't see every day. Another gateway being added as well. Going up to a total number of four gateways. Maybe we can add another fleet beacon. So we can also get the tectonic destabilizers, the tempest upgrade, going at the same time. I feel like that would really add something here. 68 workers, 138 armies of light double fleet beacon. Amazing. Three cannons at the fourth base, because we really saw a lot of aggression coming from our opponent, who had three tanks and a banshee. One cannon would have been enough, could have already been on five, six bases, 90 workers. I would have been maxed seven times at this point. And then your main goal is denying the fourth base before it turns into a planetary. Even though, even if a fort turns into a planetary, it's very difficult for the Terran to basically, get a solid defense there as well because he just doesn't have enough units. He's getting four more command centers in the main base and more turrets. All of these turrets is basically money that he isn't spending on units or economy or bases. So every time you see three turrets, that's a free nexus for you. Okay? Three, four turrets. And every time you see a planetary at a random location, that's another free nexus for you. So at the start, we already saw planetary here. That was a free nexus. we saw like 17 freaking turrets everywhere so that's another like five nexus like you could have actually been eight base against three base and just constantly focus on denying that outside base right now this is the timing to attack okay you don't need to do anything else just attack at this point kill this fourth base make sure it doesn't go up you have enough to burst down your 170 supply still only on plus one by the way 12 minutes into the game absolutely no vision like the vision of a freaking mole. I like the run-by attempt here. No question. It's over here. Thinks the fourth base is being taken here. Probably should just have an observer here, have an observer here, have an observer here at this point as well. And from there on out, you can probably do whatever you want. 36 workers on this base is pushing it a little bit. But I mean, there's actually no defense. Like planetaries are good, but they're not that good, you know? They're actually not that good at all. Still on 4 base here for Chicken, who really hasn't been doing anything for the past five minutes, except building workers and sitting back. Now she hits max. Let's see what the plans are when maxed. This is always a big moment in lower level games, is when the supply hits 200, because now something needs to be done that isn't building more units. Okay, run by. So that's a big planetary. Five turrets. Looks at her army. Maybe fifth base now. Two more tempest on the way. Chrono boost everything a little bit because now there's nothing to be done anymore like it's over you know you're complete so what is it you start doing usually you start attacking or at least start thinking about what you could be doing maybe get some more vision on the map doesn't quite seem to be the case intense focus on this pylon finishing making sure the nexus is still building this is the micro managing manager you know what I mean this is the guy that stands behind you on your PC as you're trying to craft together your your newest thumbnail for your new YouTube video. That's what I do with Hamster as well every single time. He always has to share screen when he's working so I can complain about things. Now Hamster I think it will be better to go like this. That's what she's doing is it's looking Pilons build. Look at Pylumsville. There we go. See seven battle cruisers move through and it's a good time to move. move out with a small part of my army goes to defend against the battle cruisers with four zealots five stalkers and a carrier and then leaves five carriers and two tempest into the natural no now grabs another leaves these two carriers here in case a helion run by hits the natural or something okay these immortals die well they just get f2ed back home they were gonna die to the benches though battle cruisers teleport teleport to the other side. Now we could use a recall here, but we could also go for the slow process of walking there all the way, or in this case flying. I guess we already know what's going to be happening. Oh, recall as the Nexus dies. It's another solid call. Always wait till the last second with your recall. Makes the game more exciting, gives the Terran a chance to escape as well. Very brilliant move. You love to see it. By the way, I think we should have a little bit of a battle. cruiser teleport counter. So so far we've seen a single teleport 15 minutes into the game. Very often when people say they're going crazy because of battle cruiser teleports, what really happens is they teleport once or twice, they get caught completely out of position, they forget they have the recall ability, they have no map vision whatsoever and they die. Now one good thing you can do against battle cruisers is to have vision everywhere because battle cruisers can only teleport once. So imagine you have vision. on this side over here with like a pylon or whatever you see the battle cruis there you can just go to those battle cruisers and then if they teleport anywhere else into your base you will kill them they can't escape anymore and that's kind of the beauty you can also use oracles to to tag your opponent's battle cruisers to see where they are going you can use observers provision you can use a mothership for recall for getting a second recall first of all for having offensive recalls. Oh, it's a couple of mines. We have an observer with our army. Now, you see right now that there's like six mines. It might be wise to get something like a disruptor to deal with these mines. One or two disruptors help so much. Otherwise, the mines will just be able to walk underneath your units. Now, this is, I want to go back here, okay? This should never happen. The moment the battle cruisers are near, you should be aware of that, and you should start shooting them with your attack. Tempest, okay? That is the main goal of the tempest, is that they have long range. That's why an Oracle is so important with it. You can use revelation on your opponent's army, and you can just shoot from a distance. And that's, no, from a distance. So you use a separate control group. Now, this is a foreign concept for a lot of people, separate control groups, but you do use separate control groups, and you use just the tempest to go from a distance. And then your opponent either needs to fly away or attack into you, but you already will kill two, three battle cruisers, before he even arrives at your army. Now, once again, disruptor here would be fantastic. Another thing that would be fantastic is if you'd have the tectonic destabilizer that helps your tempest do like five times the damage to buildings. Would actually be relatively helpful. Oh my God. The only detection you have dies. This is fantastic. Oh, see how good tempest are here? Look at the power of the tempest. It's absolutely destroying these, these battle cruisers. Now it would be even better once again if you could actually see them from a distance so you could continue shooting. If you could see these mines, you could continue shooting those rather than waiting them to get their recharge and then shooting again at all of your interceptors. Five more battle cruisers are on the way. I love that chicken decides to attack every single planetary except the one that makes sure that mining is possible. It's like I feel like this orbital command that can fly away. It's probably more important to attack. than this planetary. Okay. Now that we killed all of the useless planetaries and all of the useless orbitals, let me just fly to a different base to see if we can kill any planetaries there. Yep, there we go. Absolutely beautiful. That is a job well done. Truly a job well done. Oh, taking out the turrets. Maybe take out this tank as well and you can go to this base. There's still a few turrets and an orbital over there that you could potentially take out. Oh, now it gets distracted. This is like seeing a cat on a mission. And, Like turrets and useless planetaries are like the lasers, you know? Like this cat is on a mission with, oh, actually, we might get one. There's no way. Right click it, right click it. Nice. That's one. Only took us five planetaries, 15 turrets and our own dead base to truly get it going. Here comes a little bit of a Thor rally, another classic. These thores aren't doing too hot. We still have no observer with this army, by the way. I was going to say, when do the mines show up for the firework ship? There we go. Beautiful. This is why I get a disruptor. One disruptor or two disruptors absolutely deal with this problem. Tectonic destabilizers really would have made this process a lot quicker. Don't forget that even though Chicken right now is killing a bunch of bases and is doing quite well, chicken also is losing every single probe on our own side of the map against three battle cruisers that teleported. Now you could have said you could have warped in 15 stalkers and dealt with this. You could have recalled back home five tempest and dealt with this. But another option, which is an option, I do kind of want to state this, this is an option that very often doesn't get shown in higher level games, and people don't really tend to talk about it too much either. And there is the third option where instead of actually dealing with the problem, you kind of pretend that the problem doesn't exist. This is like people tend to do this with their in-laws, people they don't like at work. You know, you just kind of pretend the person or a problem doesn't exist and hopefully it will go away. I've been doing that with my taxes for the past five years. So far, they've taken my car, all of my computer gear. I hit this one in the closet so I can still record some videos. But one day, as long as I keep imagining hard enough, I do hope that the taxman will indefinitely go away. and when that day hits I will tell you guys that this strategy for the first time ever actually was successful because I really do think in this case it probably would have been better to just warp in 10 stalkers rather than losing two bases and losing 40 probes you also probably could have pulled away some of the workers to another base like this one but I guess that will be required two actions selecting the probes on and clicking on the meeting map and then right clicking here that does sound like a lot of of trouble. I think just letting those bases die probably was better. This is kind of, this kind of scares me for my future, you know, like getting a pet or something like that. And I had the, the pet is sick, you know, just let it be, it will fix itself. Like, it's going to be a major yikes there, guys. That's a scary prospect. Even worse, if I am sick, and she'll just like, oh, well, you'll probably get better by himself. Oh, this is a good warpin as well. The zealad warpin, rallied into the battle cruisers. Very smart. Zellet, probably the only unit that you still want to build at this point that can't shoot up. Instead, will be rallied into two planetaries and 15 turrets. Some solid harass. Now realizes that there still is two planetaries. No, actually that doesn't deter her. Decides to still send them in. Plenty of money anyway. Let's see how good this trade was. So far, we've killed nothing and we've lost seven zealots. This guy He saw his mates going. He's like, not that they may. This is the biologist of the bunch. He's studying the plants. Oh, that looks real nice. That looks real nice over here, guys. She's the mules from the sky to planetary. He's like, oh, this beautiful. Pretend that there's some interesting bugs in there, endangered species. Nice try, buddy. So now the mining is looking pretty equal in terms of income. The army composition actually is very, very good for chicken. It's so many tempers. The only thing we're really missing is anything to deal with the mines, which have been a major issue. Unit Loss tap is pretty close as well. Probably want to be getting a couple of probes. Actually, we have plenty of probes. We just need another base. Or probably need to send a probe to the correct base. Overworking. Once again, efficiency is key here. The reverse efficiency, as I had coined that term. Oh, Zella decides now is the time. That probably was an F2A move. I'm going to guess that was an F2A move. Is there any units anywhere else? Let me have some tempest here. So maybe it wasn't... Like, actually, the tectonic destabilizers would have been really nice this game. The amount of buildings that have gone down on the Terran side and the amount of buildings that could have gone down, probably... I don't even sure how much extra damage it does, but it feels like you can basically, like, two shot planetaries with this amount of tempest once you get tectonic destabilizers. I mean, Chicken's army is still looking super solid. just super super solid the income is also actually better than the opponents we're just missing missing disruptors maybe like some ground arm even just a couple of stalkers and then one two disruptors even two three colossi would be sick against these minds like this this air army is never going to kill those tempest right there's three thores and what ten battle cruisers yeah that's just game continuing to attack every single turret Now taking out refineries as well rather than going for mining bases. I guess if you have absolutely no clue that there's a mining base, then this probably is the correct call to make. It's very, very smart. Just by getting very little information, you can't be blamed for making incorrect calls, because you can always just say, well, I didn't know that, you know. It's kind of the trick that our government has been using for a while as well. It's a nice on. Maybe chicken has a good future in politics. Oh, here come the mines. now aware of the mines once again. No observer with this because you wouldn't want to accidentally see the mines. Once again if you can't see the problem the problem isn't really there. Very very nice. Are we going to see a recall or are we going to go for the same strategy as earlier? It seems like once again a similar approach as earlier. Now this time, oh we actually have some tempest in the main base that probably were semi-forgotten. This is going to do very well against these battle cruisers. Maybe we want to use these three as well. But then again, you probably hope. Where did these guys teleport? I mean, not a bad fight once again for chicken. Still having some issues with these mines. Yeah, maybe we want to just get an observer. Maybe you don't even need a disruptor, but just being able to see them would be nice. Now, teleport to the other side. I feel like this is the second teleport we've seen so far. Yeah, this must be making you crazy all of these teleports. That's insane. 23 workers right now. So you would feel that there might be some urgency behind the gameplay of chicken. Chicken is down 40 workers, it's on half a mining base. There's now as many probes long distance mining this base as there is mining this one. There's as many probes oversaturating this gas as there's probes mining this base. You love to see it. it. Any extra probes? I might just want to build a couple extra probes. You still have 3,600 minerals and you have like 5 necks size, so you can actually still build probes at a very rapid speed. Probably could have been back at like 50 at this point if you would have continued doing that. Now solid map vision once again out of chicken, making sure that none of the threats are being perceived before they actually arrive at the base. very very good what is this 17 tempest against seven vikings and five battle cruisers now if you could see this army move in it probably wouldn't be too much of an issue i mean these halberts don't do too much once again a single disruptor would take care of the the massive issue that those mines are instead oh don't recall into this okay thank god there's no recall i wouldn't have put it past chicken honestly Thor's taking out of the simulator. Zellat's going in ahead of the army, smart. Oh. I like that there's like eight, no, come on. Oh, there's a second one. He's the backup observer. That's a legendary move, honestly. Yeah, I wonder how this fight will go. Oh, teleports out. Mines, mines, mings. I mean, not a bad fight. fight. The problem that I have here though for chicken is that there seems to be no sense of, okay, it's a good recall actually. I like that recall. And there's nothing wrong with that. See, this is what, okay, this is the third teleport, by the way. This is why these teleports aren't that good if you do them aggressively. We see three more battle crews are being ready into this. Might want to focus fire a little bit on one of them. I like that all the damage is split to make sure that all of the Yamato's go off. Oh, there we go. I want to right click this. Yep, there. Okay. So that was a six tempest trade against three battle cruisers and only get two of them. Then the tempest go here. I feel like chicken would realize now that the sensor tower has been built or that there might be a base. The chicken actually think that this was it. After these two top bases, they go cleaned up part of the problem. We'll be fine from now. Ten workers left. Now is the time to start rebuilding workers again. Smart. The type of intelligent play you kind of expect after seeing the rest of the game play. Three Tempest. Six. It's going to make a total of 10. I feel like these eight mines will be good enough because there's no observer anymore. I think pure mine. Okay, come, come on. Chicken move forward. Oh, dang, flabbit, more turrets. Let me just stand in turret range as well. Longest range unit in the game. still manage to fly into turret range. It has to be an ability as well. Chicken make one hell of a superhero. I'm always in range of whatever's trying to shoot me. Actually lose to a shotgun while having a sniper rifle. Right clicks the refinery. I mean, Army is still nice, and maybe if there was some kiting or... you know just any micro whatsoever that would be what's that stutter stepping with tempest let's do that in the replay look at this realizing the vikings are going to retreat chicken flies in to stutter step already pre-empting the fly away that's a high-level move that is high level honestly I don't care the rest of the game I don't I don't even care anymore this is this is brilliant oh here come the mines the mines probably have done the most so far this game pop you might want to turn around shoot them hello yes shoot the one that already fired the only one that yeah go back back to SDVs you love to see it poof very unfortunate again no vision Maybe want to get another backup boy? Backup boy. Let me see. Our Terran kind of realizes he's so far ahead. Doesn't even care about producing anymore. He loves this. He's 6K, 2K in the bank. His priority is getting a refinery rather than producing some units. That's when you know you're confident, you know. If Chicken had done this, we would have called it bad. Because it's the Terran. We know it's confidence. Utter confidence. It's two minds blocking his CC. well double planetary turrets over here i love this playstyle by the way this is great to see this is why i like watching lower level games as well because you know you just see these things and you're like yeah that's freaking cool that's actually freaking a robotics facility i lost the robotics facility can't build observers anymore maybe could have considered getting an oracle finally so what have we lost so far this game 35 tempest eight carriers what has the term on so far this game 30 battle cruisers eight tours 25 mines. Still 17 mines here. The Terran army actually is looking pretty weak right now. But after Chickens realized that there was a base here and probably a base here, and at this point probably bases everywhere again, chicken decided that the longer the game goes, it might be better because there's more minerals available on chicken side of the map. Look here, still have lots of minerals here. The other guy is mining out faster. So even though you're being outmined. About tenfold. This is really quite smart. They always say slow and steady wins the race, but I have a feeling that chicken is going so slow and steady that we might never see the end of this game if chicken were to win this race. Moves in, I'm afraid of these eight mines. Once again, there's a planetary that's not mining. Of course, it gets priority over everything else that's happening on the map. But we exist to through revelators. Is this the first time we get these? That's beautiful. That's just beautiful. That's absolutely amazing. Why is our Terran just not building anything? Maybe he went to get like a beer or something like that. Now he's just watching the game unfold. Look at this. The chick is going to fly into my minds one more time. We make a planetary out of this as well. What's the APM of the Terran currently? I think he's actually just playing with one hand or just scrolling around the map. He's just looking at things. Like he doesn't give a crap whether this is being taken out or not. This chick is probably going to take out the turrets in this planetary and then move on towards this one because it's not mining anymore. Take out these two refineries. Wouldn't want to actually try to deny any real mining. This is fantastic. Oh, we have some units being produced. That's an issue. That's a real issue. I can't believe this game is still going on though. What's the mine count currently? 15. Absolutely beautiful. Okay, base actually does get taken out. You love to see it. See how the rest of these tempers are... Oh, these two refineries, of course. Wouldn't want any long distance mining going down. Well, here, there's still a bunch of refineries mining, regular distance mining. Tempus go on to the next planetary that isn't mining. Maybe take out these refineries. Yep, there, of course. There's a turret behind there that could potentially be annoying. Imagine, for example, if you want to be... want to send a prism down here into these turrets. So you're like, I don't want to lose my prison to these, but these might kill it. And I think it's a good call to take out these turrets and also kill the refinery so they don't get spotted. Chicken disagrees for whatever reason. But in another dimension, I could have seen it happen. Now, attacks with full confidence into this army doesn't use the revelation, so I'm not really utilizing the complete range of the tempest for the 30s. second minute straight in this game so far stasis wards also could have helped against the mines by the way yeah so the mines explode and i guess that's actually just going the Terran jit i is guys this guy is a prick but that guy is a prick i don't like that i did that was a nice it luxury okay you should have you won already all right you destroy chickens You should have left it with that, buddy. You should have left it with that. But, but, yeah, let's think about the game. Let's think about that initial. What did it say again? The imbalance complained for him. Played against the turtle tariff made a wall with a planetary. I mean, it wasn't really a wall. I'm wondering if this is considered an easy wall. I think this would be considered an easy wall. Yeah, that was an easy wall with a planetary. a bunch of turrets. To be precise, 3482-904-8. Is that trillion? Three trillion turrets. They just made defensive planetaries and turrets. Chicken maybe thinks it's multiple people. They just made defensive planetaries and turrets. Nice. How am I ever supposed to attack into this? widow mines being burrowed and unburrowed to chase and kill my thames. I don't think there was a lot of chasing going on. This was more of a static movement. You know, like just where. I'm not sure if you call it chasing if the person you're chasing is standing still. It's like I got chased by someone with a knife. And then if you don't run away, is it really a chase or is it just coming up to you? I felt like the minds were more coming up to you because I don't think there was a single time where you actually ran away, which once again, it scares me for your life in real life. What happens if you actually will get chased by someone? Would you go, help, I'm being chased? please stop chasing me. It's like, well, you're not really moving. It's just coming up to you. It's maybe something to work on there. widow mines being borrowed in numbers. Can we talk about BC's teleporting? I think we counted three teleports, maybe four, maybe I missed one. I don't know. Counting, like I said, after I got kicked out of elementary school, never quite recovered from there. But I think somewhere around three and four. So yeah, I don't think. it is and that leads me to this one thing. I am sorry to say but you leave me absolutely no choice. You my friend, you just really freaking... Dear YouTube, I am doing fine. I'm being loved, treated with respect and I'm being fed daily as well. I'm currently at an undisclosed location. Do not look for me. I went here voluntarily and I do not wish to be found right now. The reason I went here is because I was about to make a big mistake and called a game that Chicken played a suck on her part. Well now I realized that this is actually extremely imbalanced. I cannot say anything else except yes, this is imbalance. I have my own reasons for this. And there are very good reasons for me to say this right now. Please, once again, do not look for me. I am doing fine. Thank you for watching.


Getting Sugar From A Philosopher | Is It Imba Or Do I Suck

Today's matchup is very very special. On one side we have an all-knowing fountain of wisdom. On the other hand a jealous prick. Guess right now in the comments, who will win this game? Also don't forget to like and subscribe for more philosophic wisdom!  If YOU want to file a report feel free to use this form: https://forms.gle/UMK1udoo8Cfunnpt6  IODS Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqNxyVYrd30&list=PLbVNzAA7sXzCMxebUrgKN9dcsWlgQQmGf&index=1  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

Terran, where to begin? This race is so imbalanced, it's actually sad. They can just do whatever they want, and I'm stuck responding to what they're doing. In this replay, he had some early game bullcrap, which I think I held reasonably. Yes, I probably lost a lot of drones, but I felt like I remade them pretty fast. After that, I should have been miles ahead. But thanks to Terran's incredibly easy early game defense, bunkers, easy wall-offs, with depots, etc. He can hold whatever early game push I might throw at him. At that point, I made lots of workers and was going into Hive. But he just decided to mindlessly mass battle cruisers. It takes no skill, no micro, and he just gets insane value. I know I'm not the best player, but my complaint is that I shouldn't have to be the best player to be the Terran. I should only have to be slightly better than my opponent. Please excuse the toxicity at the end. I was tilted. but sincerely shadow mantle. Context at the beginning, we just played another match on the latter, and he won with an early tank hellbat push. So what is really in this email? Let's just, you know, deconstruct this a little bit. So he's complaining about the easy walloffs rather than just regular wallops. He has no problem with difficult wallops. It's the easy wallops that mess with him. He lost a lot of drones, but he remade them pretty fast, and he felt like he held the early game bull crap reasonably. I got some points. Some points to look at. Let's just hop straight into this game and see what actually happens. Okay, look at that. Within the first seconds, he typed, I don't know why I play this game. This man, this means that he typed that during the countdown. So he instantly recued after he lost the last game. And then in the countdown, he's still so tilted from last game. that he types it in. This shows that he has a very powerful mindset, you know, even though he's completely tilted off the self-punishment. Dude, my man crawl over here. I bet this guy is a psychologist. Like, he instantly, he pinned this guy exactly where he is. Like, this is a form of messachism. It has to be, absolutely. Holy crap. Go straight back into the game. All right. What did he say? the game was, it went well for him, right? Lost a lot of drones, but he rebuilt, re-built them fast. So that's going to be pretty interesting to see. You see Carl Hungus, I like this name, by the way. I don't know why, but it looks like a name for a philosopher, you know. Let's see if his, if his place, how he's filled with wisdom. Terran is unbeatable now anyways. I like that there's a period. Give some more power to that sentence, you know? You're also, you really do know you're in a good mental state when you start complaining about the matchup before you have even lost. That's very, yeah. Dude, Carl, who is this guy? I want to meet him. This guy has the mindset of a warrior. You know, he realizes his opponent is slightly tilted. And Carl's like, okay, you know, like I'll cheer him up a bit. Even though there's MMR on the line, he's like, you know, I'll try to work on his mindset a little bit. And then this guy just keeps saying things, you don't need to be good to beat a jerk as Terran. And I bet Carl will say something filled with wisdom again. If your name is Carl Hungus and you're a Terran on the American ladder, I'm going to finish that scent. Yeah, Carl. Filled with wisdom, this guy. My man, Carl. Move over Plato. Oh my God. Confucius. You're an idiot compared to Carl Hungus. Oh, I love it. This is, Carl is a... This is I'm following the school of thought that Carl introduces. I don't care what this guy does for the rest of his life. Like, I'm following the things he says, you know. He knows what's truly important in life. He's proxying a factory and my man, Shadow Menthol has no clue about it, which, what was that? Was that Winter? He also plays with the Winter voice, voice, uh, voice pack. And also, also explains why he isn't too good. I love you, Winter. Okay, what's he going to do? I guess there's Helions, right? Three, four Helions. You save them up, then you go in. It's getting a bunker at home. Easy walling. This is not a difficult wall. You just build it right next to it. This is easy, guys. I bet right now Shadow Mentos are already fuming, seeing that bunker. So easily walled right next to the other one. The other hand, we see, look at this, difficult walling. Actually, there's probably space between this. Because this is difficult walling. This is not easy walling. That's the difference between Zurg and Teperg. Aaron. This is, oh my God, this is so easy. Another easy walling. Look at this. He scouts this with the Ling. He's like, oh man, this is what easy walling looks like. Now, the thing that Shadow Mantle should have picked up on is that there, so an SCV went in and nothing went out. Luckily, Shadow Mantle isn't as, as good on the numbers as the guy in the movie Saul is, you know, who counts the people going to heaven. because otherwise he would have known that there's an SCV here in the main base walking line to the ramp is this a joke? I've never seen this before. Oh, there's already one here. I didn't even see that. Oh, my God, he already has seven kills. Sorry, we need to go back. How did he do that? Oh, he saved up two. Okay, okay. So let's take a look what's Shadow Mantles doing. So he's scouting right now. Pompidom, so something's happening on the mini map. Still something happening on the mini map? I'm not sure if I'm actually on his vision. Oh, yeah, I am. He's just moving really slowly. Oh, how did my drones die? Doesn't quite understand it. Okay, spore, spore, spine. I don't quite understand the spine, but I like the spore. Isn't he curious where these mines came from? Oh, he just heard something? Oh, the link side. She's a mine walk, oh, okay, there it is. She's a mine walk into his natural. Decides the best play is to go keep. Oh, that's good micro. It was good micro. I like that. This is still in range, buddy. Nice try Carl. Execute attempt, Carl. This one is killed 10 drones so far already. That one's also gonna die. Spine crawlers out of range. He still moves it within sport range. This is a great game. Doesn't want to kill this. Doesn't want to kill this. It's gonna shoot again, isn't it? Hello, we have vision. 15. 15. Oh my God. I just really... I really hope that my man's shadow mantle... Why is he building another spore? Spores can move. I really hope my man's shadow mantle isn't... It doesn't build buildings. I hope he isn't in construction because he says this is a good beginning. Look at this. He's down 22 workers. 22. they'll come to him and how's the foundation? Strong foundation It looks like there's nothing No, no, no, no. It's strong foundation and they put in like the first post and it just sings into like the mud. It's like I thought he said it was a strong foundation. Was a strong foundation. Very strong foundation. Like dude, you're dead. You're one third of your opponent's workers. The other guy has mules as well. You still haven't even cleaned up two of the drones and you're getting another sport to check the one at the ramp rather than moving your sport. is a massive advantage that you have as a Zerg. Getting two spores for a single mine is like, imagine you're a goalie on a football pitch and you're a bad goalie, okay? And you're like, you know what I should do? I should probably get some glass. You get some glasses. You can now at least see the ball coming and it improved the situation slightly. Then you decide if one pair of glasses is going to make me this much better. Imagine what happens when I wear two pair of glasses. So my man, Shadow Antel puts on the second pair of glasses. Still can't hold the ball out of the goal of course, because he's also a crap goalie. That's the problem. The problem here isn't detection. It is the fact that you don't know what to do when the balls are coming towards you. Moves across the map with 20 lings. Smart. Counterattack? Oh my God, what an easy wall this is by Carl. That's ridiculous. Shadow Menthol actually fuming. If you had like a heat meter, you know, like you're seen in his house, he's completely orange and red where he is. just lights of his entire room. Like, oh my God, there's a fire in that house, but no, just shadow mental. When he sees an easy wall like this, that's ridiculous. That's absolutely ridiculous. What is he doing? He sees this. So he lost his lings now. Now he can focus once again on building drones and walking them through his mine. Maybe he can walk a couple of drones into these. They're not doing enough damage yet. He sends the queen there. I really, okay, this was a really, really smart move. Not many people understand this move, but I'll explain this to you, okay? So here for a very long time, this queen is just staring it down. And he's playing a game of chicken with this mind. I'm not gonna go in, you know, I'm gonna go close as possible. Then he goes to inject to truly show superiority and it's like, ah, you know what, let me just tank this mine shot with my queen rather than with a zergling or a drone, which are all, well, a zergling is like one sixth the cost and a drone is one third the cost of a queen. Instead, I sacrifice my queen into this mine, and then I can send the other queen from downstairs. I finally manage you to clean it up. So a very solid way of dealing with burrowed mines on your ramp, I have to admit. It's something we don't see very often. He also could have used the spine, of course, and not sacrifice anything. Oh, he realizes now he can move it. I thought he was going to put on the third pair of glasses. He realizes two is enough. Is this queen going to go all along the edge and also kill himself into this one? It is possible. Stay tuned to find out. Spine. Why did he build spines, by the way, rather than just getting like two lings and sacrificing one link and then using the other link to kill it with vision of the spore. A single raven moving across. Carl's a legend. Carl's floating 1,700 minerals. He doesn't care about that because he is very easy for him to all. Look at that. It's with depots, etc. Very easy to wall. Carl has no troubles. Two command centers because Carl has a lot of money. He doesn't, he doesn't mind. Carl is, yeah, it's lots of money. Carl, Carl is fine. Carl Hungus. He's writing a book during this as well. Like his philosophy on life. How to teach children, how to properly behave. Carl has loads of books written. He usually writes them in his letter games against Shadow Mental. But Shadow Mental keeps recuing every single time after he loses because this guy has the winners never quit and quitter's never win mindset. So just keeps going. One day I'll beat him. Meanwhile, Carl's playing with like his toes, writing a book with his left hand, editing his other book with his right hand. Carl has multiple brains as well. He's just a lot smarter than the average. Well, definitely smarter than the average Zerg player. But that's mainly because Shadow Mantle is bringing the average down so far. The actual average of Zerg player probably was pretty high. The Shadow Mental switched from Protoss to Zerg. All downhill. I love this. The double sport, the double glasses right next to each other. Instead of putting one to zone any potential threats, he decided to put both them next to each other. absolutely nothing. This is the kind of brilliant thinking, the out-of-the-box brilliant thinking that you only get from Shadow Mental. You love to see it. Meanwhile, let's not forget about the fact that he hasn't scouted anything. The last time he saw was a starport going down. He isn't aware of anything else happening. He's been down in workers the entire game. Like, if Carl invested all of his money into SUVs and aimed across the map with SEVs, I'd give him a 70% chance to win. I think that's pretty reasonable. It's getting Ling Bane, preparing for to explode on top of these battles. There's also 27 Marines down. But there's a wall. And it's not even just a difficult, it's an easy wall. Oh my God. This is so triggering to see. I hope someone, when Channel Mantle rewatches this, I hope someone is close by to give, you know, you don't know what's going to happen. with him. He might start raging. E. Oval's! Carl is just chilling. Doesn't really need to use the energy on his orbital. Gets a planetary on the fourth. Orbital in the main. Saving up battle cruisers to make sure he can literally one shot every building on the other side of the map. Shadow Menthol, after nine minutes of seeing nothing, decides maybe it's time to send in another overlord. Instead of sending it in, just leaves it, hovering over the fourth base. Brilliant. My man Shadow Mantle still had 39 workers as well. He's been building units exclusively, 93 lings, nine bane lings, rather than perhaps getting a couple of queens, seeing what his opponent is doing, taking a fort base. He decides the right course of action is to be down 20 workers, the entire game. The only reason the supplies are even is because Carl is saving for bad times, you know? He remembers the 2008 crisis. He's like never again. He always keeps the little bank. Hidden. Well, I'm not really his right there, but you know what I mean. Another command center goes down. Scarle can afford it. He's rich. Oh. Disgusting. It's not really a wall. This is just the defenses. But, well, this, I guess this counts as a wall. It's easy wall as all. Nasty. See if Shadow Mental is trying to wall anything. I'm not sure if this counts as a wall, but I bet that's really difficult to do, putting these two right next to each other. Hey, what the mental capacity that Shadow Mental has is. I don't know. It's hard to say sometimes. You have plus two ship weapons on the way. Right now we have six queens against four battle cruisers. So generally I think Shadow Mantle is well ready for these BCs as well. You love to see it. Creed threat continues on. Walls, everything. Rageborne that he's watching. This is his way of raising his heart rate naturally, you know. Just looks at this. His blood pressure goes up. It's crazy. He doesn't need medicine for that type of stuff. If he knows how to, like these certain breeding methods to get your blood pressure down, and then he has like just a picture of this, if he needs it to get up, he can perfectly regulate everything inside of his body. Shadow Mental is a level above the rest of it when it comes to bodily control. He's controlled over all of his functions. I like the Blue Flame Helium, by the way. I think that's big. No, that's really big, actually. Because his opponent is literally only on Ling. So it's going to be Helian, Helbet, Battlecruiser versus Ling Bane. So literally everything that Carl is making hard counters his opponent. Like every single unit is perfect. Except the 31 Marines. And everything, every single unit that Shadow Mantle made so far is incorrect. You don't want this at all. Like none of it. Niantos, nada. Zero. Zero. Zero. No. Spire goes down. He finally spots the battle crews. Wait a second. Truly fuming at this point. Like, how would I even have been able to find this out? As he has absolutely no clue. That he can just perhaps make an overseer, fly into his opponent's main base. See that there's like five... This was all of two starports. Holy crap. Imagine how long this took. This took like five minutes this transition. Hasn't spotted it once. Also didn't really. realized nothing was coming for him. I think in the past five minutes he legit went up 10 drones. 10 drones, while nothing happened. Doesn't even have bailing speed. Goes into the wall, only bust one depot down rather than all of it, waits until... ...then realize the wall was open already, even though it is an easy wall. This actually is doing some damage. Which makes me sad and happy at the same time. I bet he felt like an idiot, busting open this depot and realizing he could just walk in. in. I probably could have used these bailings for this. Meanwhile the battle cruisers, uncontested, because there's actually nothing that Sheterminty has. Shetermintel is not even in that better spot, funnily enough. Like, he has a lot of money. If he had a spire and just had like 20 corruptors on the way, you... What? Hello? He actually would not be in a terrible spot. Yeah, he's getting 15 corruptors now. You can just drone back up and he should be fine. Well, he won't be fine, but he's down like 8K resources, but it's not. It's probably playable with the way that Carl has been playing so far. Single battle cruiser. I'm not sure if this teleported or flew over, but it just went in and killed the remaining hive. Neal steel frame, of course. The hardcore. I think he complained about turtling as well, no? I'm pretty sure he did complain about turtling, yeah. So it makes a lot of sense. That's two bunkers in a planetary. That's very scary. I like that he didn't really complain about the battle cruiser or like... The fact that the Terran units counter all of his, that Terran is extremely cost-efficient. These are things that at least I could reasonably say, like this is nice to come, but too easy to wall. How do you even get that in your head? It's not even hard to wall as a Zerg either. You just build buildings. It's the same with every race. The way the hexas work just always works the same. I guess depots are a nice structure because it's two by two. He's mainly been using bunkers and his wall wasn't even complete. Why is he... What's he doing with his corruptors? I just wants to pee this base down, I guess. You'd feel like there's a little bit more urgency if you're on two base and thirty-one workers, fighting against a guy that's on four base. But there's no... What? This is the scout, the scout pier. This is what we used to do as well. When I was a kid, I used to be on the scouts, okay? It's a good story, actually. Used to be in the scout. I think you call it like the Boy Scouts. You know, the Boy Scouts. And whenever you get to a train track when you're in the Dutch Boy Scouts, it is tradition that you all pee on the train track. Because you know it's supposed to be safe, right? Even if there's electricity on it, you shouldn't be able to feel it. because the stream of your pee isn't consistent enough. But always what you do, you first send in the youngest guy that's new to test if it's safe. So he pees and if he's good, they all pee on the train track. That's what this guy was as well. The Boy Scout. It's a standard procedure really in the Dutch Boy Scouts. At least the chapter I was part of. Okay, better cruisers make their way across the map. take out the planetary fortress. You love to see it. It doesn't even like... What? You do whatever you want and still win? I'm really curious what Carl's response is going to be. No chance at all for me to win. This is just bad words he's using. So bad at this game too. sad get out i got to get out he won like this makes absolutely no sense you know let's go to the no before we go to the complaint form okay listen to this imagine this scenario a hypothetical okay completely hypothetical scenario imagine two people living next to each other shadow mantle and carl humus the famed philosopher now my man shadow mantle he wants to drink tea with some sugar in it okay just a little bit tea with some sugar in it. Except he's out of sugar. So what does he do? He goes. He goes to Carl. He says, Carl, you dumb philosopher with lots of money, who is just lucky in life and got born to parents with high IQ. I want some of your delicious sugar because your sugar is better, but only because you're lucky and an idiot. Carl, calm as always says, sure, you can have some of my sugar. Gives him a little sugar and as shadow mantle walks away. He keeps on insulting, calling him a a mama's boy and a rich kid, even though Carl worked hard for his money. And he tried his best. He's a humble dude, tries to help anyone that comes to him for help. Shadow Mantle is just complaining, complaining. Put some sugar in his tea, goes back through the rest of the sugar in Carl's face. And Carl, he just takes it. He breathes in through the nose and out through the mouth, because Carl knows that there's something wrong with Shadow Mantle. Now, that is basically a complete analogy for what this game was. We saw Carl being a complete gentleman, a scholar, someone that everyone would want as a friend. While Shadow Mental did nothing but insult and play poorly and make mediocre decisions. Now, from here on out, let's go into the balance complaint one more time. Let's just go over some of the things he said. So first of all, he said, I probably lost a lot of drones, but I felt like I remade them pretty fast. This is a claim that we can investigate. We investigated. This claim was simply not true. You did lose a lot of drones, but you did not remake them pretty fast. Like, that is absolutely not true. That's a big X for you, my friend. Like, it took you up until the 12 minimum wage, like 57 drones. He didn't do any type of aggression that stopped you from building drones for the entire game. All he did was send four widow mines into your mineral line that killed 45 workers somehow, and then completely ended you. there. You didn't rebuild them quickly. You didn't rebuild, but you did rebuild the drones that you initially lost, but you never built any more drones. And also even the ones you rebuild were really slow. So that is a false claim. Second, thanks to Terran's incredibly easy early game defense, he can hold whatever early game push I might throw at him. This is a claim that we tried to investigate but was impossible to investigate because you didn't throw anything at him. There was no early game push. You accidentally rallied 20 lings into his natural and lost all of them, killing half an SUV. If you consider that a push, we also this one out. But honestly, this one is undecided. We couldn't investigate this because no such thing happened. Impossible to investigate is what we say then. At that point, I made lots of workers and was going into Hive, but he just decided to mindlessly mass battle cruisers. I made lots of That is an objectively false claim. You did not make lots of workers. You did go into Hive and he did decide to make battle cruisers, whether that was mindless or not. We can't really say. So you know what? We'll give you partial true for this. It takes no skill, no micro and he just gets insane value. Nothing that you did. Takes any scale, micro. To be fair, you also had no value. But you did nothing correct. Nothing you did was with skill, nothing you did was with micro. And thus you also got no value. He at least did some things correct. He had correct unit counters. He put on some aggression. He built walls, even though they were kind of easy, I have to admit it, but depots, etc. I mean, that's disgusting. But he got way better value. Yeah, he got way better value. That's normal because you know what? Cirque is supposed to have a way better eco, but you didn't build any drone. and he went down to 11 workers like the 5 minute mark. So, in conclusion, were you correct in this balanced complaint form? No, no, none of the claims really hold through. And on top of that, you sucked. And you sucked extremely hard. That's a fact. All right, that's going to be it for this episode. Is it inbar, do we're talking if you enjoyed this episode. Don't forget subscribe to the YouTube channel. Don't forget to say that you like me more than hamster. and don't forget to smash the like button as well. All of these things in that order. Thanks so much for watching. Bye-bye.


When Mentally Deficient Turtles Play Chess... | Is It Imba Or Do I Suck

You know an SC2-Player isn't that great when you can beat him with a plastic straw. Today's guest is very very glad, that we are getting rid of those so that he can attempt to stamp around on the chess board once more! Like and subscribe to clean the ocean of plastic! (this does not actually work)  If YOU want to file a report feel free to use this form: https://forms.gle/UMK1udoo8Cfunnpt6  IODS Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqNxyVYrd30&list=PLbVNzAA7sXzCMxebUrgKN9dcsWlgQQmGf&index=1  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

There Harstem, this replays sums up the gigantic difference in involvement required between Terran and Protoss to win a macro game in lower leagues. Being better in all quantifiable compartments, APM, income, army supply, resources spending, supply management, dot, dot, dot, dot. Of the game seems to not be enough to be the Protoss that plays the infernal quartet of charge lot, colossi, high templars and blink dTs. You're also expected to have a cardiothoracic surgeon position with your EMPs, a co-kin addicts reaction time to split your units and to repair your bases from blink DT assaults and a tactic worthy of a famous Chinese general to compete with Protoss Mappak, aka observers. How is that fair to expect all of that from a 3K3 Terran so that he has the slightest chance when the protis is just chilling and calmly spam storms? Hell, even when I want battles, I couldn't end the game because of the proto-stupid recall, an unbreakable static defense that gives him a second chance for free. Please Harstem, convince that I sucked more than my opponent in this game. It is EML, Terran player, Diamond Level, 3.3K MMR on EU. Now, I would immediately like to jump on something here, and that's the last sentence. This last sentence is something that I get a lot, okay? Let's just look at that sentence one more time. The sentence was, please Harstem, convinced that I sucked more than my opponent in this game. I don't need to convince you that you suck more than your opponent in this game. The way I see it is that very often when I get a replay, it's a bit like watching a game of chess between two cognitively limited turtles. The turtles might stamp around on the chessboard. They might accidentally move the chess pieces in the case. correct direction and the way that chess pieces are supposed to move, but never will it actually resemble a game of chess. And most of the time that's what happens. Now if one of the turtles at the end of the game claims that he has won and then the other turtle starts complaining, no one in their right mind would say something about the balance of chess, even though that statement might be correct. For example, if the turtle playing the white piece at once said, wow, uh, a, a, a, a I had such a big advantage playing the white pieces, even though this might be correct, there is no way that we could have concluded that reasonably from watching the game between the two cognitively limited turtles. And that is why I don't care about who sucks more. I care about whether you suck at all. And very often the answer to that is yes. But once again, I will be going into this game as objective as possible. My goal always is to award the imbalance stamp. you know it's a rare stamp we haven't really seen it very much yet um so yeah i i let's just hope that this is the day that we get it let's just hope that this is the day we get it so we have eml versus carpini it's an italian player definitely i'm sure what carpiini means but i i i like it EML, LME, no. Sometimes the letters mean something backwards, but I don't know what this means. So we're not gonna put any more effort into that. We see our Terran player opening up with a double depot wall into two Marines and no, and a command center. Okay, not really a build order, but I mean, I can dig it. I can, at least he's trying, you know, we have something here. So usually what you do is you play. Marine Command Center Factory or you play Marine Command Center Reactor Factory or you play Reaper Command Center Marine Reactor Factory. I think that sounds correct but what he did here is not a thing. Like I said, I'm not going to complain about this, okay? I'm fine with this. This is okay. It's okay. It's at least resembling an opener. Okay, second barracks going down. three second barracks he's still on one gas okay takes a second gas now and he starts scouting at the two minute mark like almost a three minute mark i'm not too familiar with this should start a bunker probably should have started a bunker a while ago so if you're just opening up with marines no reaper and like no marauder or anything like that and you skip a bunker if your opponent walks across the map with a stalker and actually start microing you lose all of your Marines and probably should even lose the game. So we have a bunker here, two stalkers arrive. Yeah, okay, this is this is actually pretty okay by the toss. Snipes the SV is a good scut guiding. It's nice guiding. I like this. You could probably move back a little bit faster, but what is he doing okay gets a tech lab as a tech lab on the factory and isn't really using it? He's going to lose all of his Marines isn't he? No. It's nice micro by the Tos, eh? Terran has nothing to say here, nothing to say. How many Marines do you lose already? Four Marines, four SCVs. TOS. Oh! Doesn't even even though he's looking good. It's gonna get another Marine even though he has a tech lab here. It's not getting anything from the factory. Like something that might make a lot of sense here is to actually open with a cyclone. Like if you're being attacked like this, to just get a cyclone. if you forgot your bunker. I mean, this game is just actually over. Like, my man Protoss here has been Microw like a god. He absolutely destroyed this. No marauder being built, no conclusive show also could be a tool. Why did he get such a fast factory in Starboard to not use it? It's hard to really judge it. Okay, here we go. This gets a tank. I mean, it makes some sense at least. Probably should float this away. Like you're not going to be able to defend this before it needs to fly. Yeah, okay, good. I was afraid for a second he was going to lose it. Now, the toss behind this hasn't been producing workers too well, and in general I don't like his build order too much, but I still think the toss is probably ahead after this. Like the unit lost is just too far in the favor of the toss. And honestly, he's been controlling his units relatively well. I'm kind of proud of this top play. Carpini, the Italian toss player, actually. Actually, he's doing an okay job. I'm happy. I'm happy. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wow. Okay, now this party is over, and we finally get to see the plan here for the Tarran player. Gets a reactor. Did he start Stim yet? No, I forgot to start Stim. He's getting a second tank. More Marines. I'm just so curious why he gets all of these buildings and then doesn't use any of him. Like it took years for him to finally build a tank, or a cyclone or a mine. He almost lost the two stalkers. Like even a mine or a helion would have probably been fine. He just didn't get it. Toss slightly behind an income because of Mules, but mentally he's ahead because, you know, unit lost and all that. So... What's he doing? What is this tank position good against? If someone really wants to attack this area? movement is all about. Okay, so the reason I say this is when you're playing against a blink all in, you actually want your tank further back. So they can just blink forward and snipe the tank. Like this tank position is not great unless you really care about this general area and having your Marines out there. I'm really quite confused what is happening here. Stim finally starts though. We have no eBay on the way. We have a bunch of mules. So this just seems like a massive all in. He's going to attack once with tank, marine, marries. in like a Medivac and three more barracks but he has no upgrades going he won't have combat shield with the push and the toss is just getting into into charge loads into a robotics facility you're getting a couple of upgrades the first upgrade yeah it's the first upgrade but I mean having a upgrade is better than not having any upgrades I see a drop here okay it's interesting so now a single drop across the map seven minutes into the game now usually my blink finishes at about 440 into the game and this type of play becomes extremely risky now this is a different level but I think being off by three minutes is it's a bit yikesy at least so I would classify this as a relatively risky move which could go wrong now it's not gonna go wrong because we see no blink has finished yet and blink isn't on the way or close to finishing but so this should never die right there's no anti-air that can actually chase which means this should actually be able to do a lot of damage here. Stim is available he doesn't use it saving the energy of the medevac it's very smart this a this isn't going in really this is an advanced move saving the energy of the medevac because he knew What is he doing? Like, I was gonna make a joke about that he knew that I was gonna stay alive and then he just straight up sacrifices the medevac. That's a terrible drop. Like none of these units had any chase, could never catch him. He could just fly away and be fine, repair it or something, but I guess it's also good. He did get some scouting info. I'm not sure if it's worth it to lose eight marines and a medevac to see that your opponent has a fortune at twilight, but, you know, we'll... We'll take it. Scouting info, no matter how it gets received, it's always good. It's actually, how's he up 20 supply? I guess he just has more workers and more income, hey? Poor Protoss player. Absolutely blasting his heart out here with his movement, getting cannons, batteries, being afraid of his opponent. It's up and upgrade though. Now the Terran is getting double e-base. Still doesn't have combat shields. It's finally getting it. I feel like everything is going a little bit slow for this Darren player though. It's a single MataVac as well, three tanks. I mean, this army is really powerful. This is the type of army where if you have combat shield and like 1-1, you probably move across the map and kind of win with it. So now he scans. He's like, okay, my opponent has zealots and an upgrade and also Templar, which are I'm pretty sure are all things that he already saw with his drop. Maybe he just wanted to know if there's a third base. But in that case he probably could have just maybe sent like four tanks in two Metafax to scout that because that seems to be his his way to scout things to just sacrifice a bunch of units that you might need in the next minute and a half. And now our player is not doing anything okay, just sitting around starts as 2-2 upgrades or at least it's 2-1 okay, yeah 2-1 upgrades neither player doing much of anything here. I guess the TOS is trying to establish some scouting information. He's trying to get some vision with observer, well, observers, observer, a observer on the map. The Taron is walling in with deep-bos. Okay, I like it. I like it a lot. Some big, what is this? Look at some modern architecture. Close by my house, we have things looking like this, like cube-looking buildings. Some weird formation as well. It's a bit like this. I bet this guy's an architect in his real life. Just wants to play SimCity. This is a peaceful player. He doesn't actually want to fight. I mean, so far he hasn't done any damage, really. He lost all of his Marines for free at the start. Now, I thought that was because he didn't build a bunker. But I think he rather, you know, kill his own units than deal damage to someone else. And I mean, his drop also just was for information gathering. He didn't really attack anything with it. Perhaps this guy is just a pacifist. Just doesn't like fighting. Except inanimate objects. The rocks are being taken out right now. Bang, bang, bang, bang. How does he have two medevacs with an army this size? These guys are... I hope they're getting paid overtime because he's gonna have a good time. Holy crap. There's 21 marauders, 42 marines, and there's three metaphax. How's that even possible? It's just not built any matter. Maybe he doesn't have this as a hotkey or something. Forget so you can build them. Like you can't lose metaphax here, buddy. That's 33% of your healing power. Okay. Siege is up, stands in the storms. Okay. Three of the four storms are good. Oh my god, actually a lot of these storms were good. Where they going? Sometimes I complain about people using F2, but I feel like this guy would be twice as good if he would use F2. What are these Mativex doing? This is like, imagine you get like actual medics in your army. Like, you're at war. You're at war, okay? And the war is in Canada. And then you send your entire medical department to the Netherlands. It's like, first of all, why do you want to go to war with Canada? There's nothing of use that you can get there. I don't think Canada has much oil. And why is your medical department in the Netherlands? These are interesting questions that we don't have an answer to. These guys just went back home. They didn't do anything. This guy tasted danger and was like, that isn't for me. I'm flying back home. This is fantastic. What is you going to have lost like? Six and the 7K against 3K. That fight was actually so bad. I didn't want to pay too much attention to it because he just walked into the storms and I thought maybe we can ignore it, but then I opened the unit last time. Like, okay, we can't completely ignore it. We'll say that perhaps someone rang his doorbell, and as the fight started, he quickly ran to the door to realize that the kids from the neighbors just, what do you call it? They press the doorbell and they run away. This happened to me two months ago. It really pissed me off. I need to go all the way downstairs to open the door, and then there's nothing there. It's like an empty shopping basket in front of my door. I was like, well, I don't know what they want me to do with this, but I just returned it to the shop, obviously, as a good Samaritan that I am. I can't remember where I was in this game, though. I feel like I'm paying more attention to the proto. I kind of like what the pros is doing. He's getting cannons, it's getting batteries, getting Templar and Colossi. The Terran player is getting a good army, but so far he hasn't really shown to be cable. of controlling it. It's kind of like giving a soldier a rocket launcher and then the soldier just like shoots it in the air to see how high it goes. I feel like that's kind of what's happening we're here with EML. It's like he's mightily intrigued by the things that his army possibly could be capable of but in his hand so far he's just checking how fast they can move around the map see how quickly they can die against storm which also is interesting research but I'm not sure if the ranked ladder is the place to do that type of research. Of course, EML, if we have a disagreement on that specific issue, you can always send me another email or fill in another form, as you know how to find me by now. What is this? He scans forward, sieges up the tank, moves around with the ghost. Like, first I isolated the metaphysics, now let me isolate the ghost. I'm so curious what his plan is here. He's going to impede the entire army. Okay. I think he just lost five ghosts for these EMPs. Now, that would have been good. If then the follow-up is also that there will be a fight straight away. However, if there is no fight, then it wasn't actually that useful. Okay, tanks are shooting here. At least one of the tanks is... Is you move command? Moving forward at least. I feel like the Toss can just turn around and kill this now. I feel like it's a little bit too... These are some of the weirdest stutter steps. These are actually very, very... Okay, I feel like a lot of the time he wasn't actually stutter stepping there. He was just running forward. It's like if you're chasing someone horseback, you know, you're just riding next to him, and you're just pointing your gun at him, just continuously. just continuously. And the other guy who's looked like, are you gonna shoot? And he's like, I'm stutter stepping. I'm stutter stepping. I don't know. I mean, he also fought without the tanks. Once again, I'm not completely surprised that the toss won this fighter. Well, won. It wasn't a big win. I think it was semi-efficient, actually, because the toss moved away. Vizel stutter-staping, guys. I'm stuck. Yeah, I don't know why they do that. It would have been a terrible cow-we. movie that's a movie without Clint Eastwood I can tell you that much that guy has a good couple of others DTs I feel like a goldfish sometimes you know I'm in the middle of a center and then something new pops up on my screen and like oh that looks interesting as well okay nice nice lands the command center in front of his opponent sees it burning down like what's these slashes coming from what what is this falling from the sky what is this noise why is it burning is It's like, you should lift it now. Probably nothing. It's just a flash wound. So lose orbit command, gets a command center, flies another one over. Now is aware that there's DT, so it should be starting to build some turrets. Yeah, we see a turret here. See a sensor tower over here. It's this command center. It flies so slow. Unless you're watching it fly to a base that is unmind yet as the opponent, then it feels way too fast. So there's the T's here. This Tos, by the way, is playing pretty proper. Like his game style is nice, you know. He's playing D.T. Colossi. I would have preferred Disruptor over Templar at this point because there is a bunch of ghosts. So disruptor tend to be better here. But I still don't mind it. Maybe he forgot. Theory. Did did it. Did da da da da, Kevin's theory corner. I have a theory that EML does. not know the hotkey for unseech. So once he sieges a position, he just stays there forever. He probably thinks it's a bit like building a turret, you know? You can put it anywhere, except it instantly deployed, or at least deploys very fast. And then this is just defense for there, for the rest of the map. This is a theory by Kevin. We'll see if it's true or not. I'm curious now. We have, you know, little side games going on as EML decides, it's now time to turtle up. Oh, he put a tank over here. here as well. This guy I bet also isn't going to move. It's nicely defending this refinery and the bottom half of the mineral patches. Like what is this guy defending? The top part of this ramp. Oh! Terrets kill the observer. That's nice. DTs go for a rotation. I like that actually. I do like that. There's short DTs here, six to the left. Now you need about 90s to kill a planetary. Okay. If you use 60 T's and they repair, your never gonna kill it. If you use 9 DTs, they need to be really fast with the repair to kill it. And if they have any units nearby, you'll probably still lose your DTs. You need to blink on top and then boom, you go. A well protected sensor tower there. Oh! Theory proven false. That is scientific progress right there. Unseached three of his tanks. This DT snipes as planetary? No! Oh, it actually gets it in time. That's big. That's big. Oh, here comes the flank, here comes the flank, here comes the flank, here comes the flank, tanks get taken out. There's actually no real anti-air. There's three colossal... Oh! What? Once again, it doesn't stim. Imagine being a... Imagine being a soldier in this army and having that drug. available and your commander just tells you no not today but sir it makes a shoot faster and run quicker actually do some damage look at this fight I just want to show you guys this fight again okay so initially we start we start off with a flank in which the tanks are are left by themselves okay these two colossal eye that's bad don't get me wrong that's awful that's terrible look at this first of all the the tanks they are solo as the marines and marauders are attacking the pylons and doing a lot of damage on this assimilator and the cannon. Then there's a move command here, look at this, we'll zoom in for that. A nice move command into Zealots, a stutter step forward without stim, moves into the storm, doesn't attack for a solid five seconds, goes back to attacking the assimilator and a probe, loses half of his army into another storm, right clicks the planet or the nexus without being stimmed, while flying the Vikings away from the Colossine. There's something else here. It's an impressive fight. You know how sometimes you have these educational videos or instructional videos on YouTube where it tells you how to fix your sink or something like that or how to do like a certain exercise and it also has like these three crosses, you know? Like the instructional do not bend your back like this and there's like a massive red cross and it's like blacked out basically the video like black and white. He's like a guy complain about pain in his back afterwards. I feel like EML would be great making these type of instructional videos, except he wouldn't do the instructional part, just the part where the guy is complaining about back pain because he used the equipment incorrectly or something like that. You know, or he cut off his finger with the pineapple slicer. This is a type of guy that EML, I think, is. and doesn't surprise me. It's the average IQ of the Terran player, of course. Tank still over here. The theory partly proven true, I think. Tank and turret are best friends. Tank and turret are best friends. That's potential for a song, if you ask me. 40 Ts moving into this planetary. Well, it was an... Okay, you see what happened here? Ha ha. This is this was a command center and then when he started attacking. He was like, oh crap, I need to upgrade this to a planetary. Maybe Harstam won't notice, but I but I noticed. Okay, I noticed. I definitely did notice. Don't even try to trick me there. Good storms. The the army control of this toss has been pretty okay. Understanding flanks, knowing what the storm, knowing what to move. Even as a separate control group for for stalkers. Look at that. Targeting down units and stuff. Nice. Love to see it. Does he always just move command in without stim? Oh, this was the Get Out of Jill Freecard. With the... Oh yeah, this recall definitely helped him a lot. Man, this recall completely changed the game. Now he stims. He's like, let me run to the other side of the map with my completely dead army. This Colossack can probably hold this by itself. Almost. Dude, he's completely dead. Okay, listen to what's happened here. He has everything in the same control group, which means that the Vikings never fight, and that he can't use stim because Ghosts have priority in control groups. You can see it. So that's why he isn't stimming. This makes so much sense. It's because he literally just uses one control group for every unit. Tank and turret are best friends. It is a banger. And then he loses army to DTs. Have his army attacking in a simulator again? Oh no! The tanks and they left. They left. Now they come back. Should have stayed here, buddy. This was the position after all. I was wrong. I take everything I said about this position back. Lift it, lift it. You can lift it. You can lift it. You can lift it. You can fly. It can fly. If EML was a bird, he'd really struggle with cats. He's really struggle with them. The cat is faster, he can jump. What do I have? Well, you can fly. No, but really, what do I have? Well, you can go to the tree and fly, or you can just be in the air and cat now, but what do I have? The TTs and zealots are so good. So one time against... The one time... I just want to... he complained about blink DTs and that you need to have, what did he say? He had some word for it. Cardiotoracic surgeon position with your EMPs. No, that was with EMPs. Cocaine addicts reaction time to repair bases from blink DT assaults. Now, let me remind you that so far he once got attacked by six blink DTs here and the planetary one, even though his repair time was pretty slow. Then there was one time over here where there was a command center and he tried to trick me by starting a planetary as the DT started attacking. Then he ended up, I believe, not lifting it. And then he didn't lift this one twice, I think at this point now. Or just once. No, twice. He didn't lift this one twice now. So this is nothing to do with repair reaction times. The one time you had a planetary, you just held. And the other times you could have floated your building. You didn't need to repair it. DTs don't shoot air. They're a bit like cats. but it's a dumb bird you wouldn't understand that. Another... I actually was going to say another no stim and then I caught myself and I was like, you know what? He doesn't need to stim here because these units are going to die already. And now he... Oh, he's stimming again because his ghost died. There's no ghost left. Then he can stim again. So usually I always say that ghosts are good to use against Protoss but for EML, I actually would suggest not using ghost anymore because it completely stops him from using one of the best spells in the game and that is stim. Just decreases the damage output of his RV by probably like three or four attack upgrades just because he can't use stim. This is hilarious. Yeah, this is good. I'm not sure if he uses control groups or just F2s, but I think it's control group, just a single control group. And I got us a lot of probes. Let me just take out all of these buildings and let the probes run free. And now he just over stimms, by the way. It's not like, this is great. You can fight this army, buddy, like this is good to go up. There we go. Another stim, matter of fact, completely empty. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Now we need to probably start going back. Oh! It's like the fourth move command he had. Liberators, F2 then. Oh, darn it, I lost the game. Drop the Vikings, smart move. move. Sacrificial, sacrificial lamps. I like that. Pleasing the Protoss god. This is off position, isn't it? Probably can still fix it though. Looks too far to the right to me. But it's flying again. Pa-pa-pa-ba-da-ta-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-pa-pa-pa. I don't know. I do have the things I do either, so far. Some nice blink d.D.T. Action. Just a in forward I think the Protoss probably is winning because he has a slightly bigger bank and right now he is out mining his opponent on the other hand there's is his off position that's great that does make me happy oh we have another tank where's the turret though tank and depot are best friends new best friend for the tank it's the depot and the sensor tower but the depot is closer When did he build that tank though? It's the second factor. Does his base look like two armories? It's a single vehicle weapon upgrade. You love to see it. Oh, this is a great drop again. Look at that. This is the effective APM that we see in action here, Tarrant player. Just move way faster than what any Protols can do. He sold... Oh, another drop goes in as well. Both Metavex extremely low. Oh, use a stim. No ghost, I bet, on the map. Did he stim his entire army? Sometimes they do that when they use F2, you know? Sometimes they do that when they use F2. Oh, here comes this army. He just gives up the base. Okay, I don't like that the Toss is going for the base right here. That's a bad call. That's actually an incorrect call, especially because this base is pretty useless. Oh. There's a ghost. There's a ghost. Oh, I should have done another theory. He actually doesn't stim if he has a ghost in. If he stims now, that will be it. Stim. He just 90% of the fights that mattered. He just didn't stim. It's an actual fact. I did have to do this back. Look at it. He doesn't stim and he doesn't micro. No stim, no micro, single EMP. This is fantastic. All right, where are you at? What did you complain about? What did you? How is it fair to expect all of that from a 3.3k Terran so that he has the slightest chance when the prox is just chilling and calmly spam storms? Okay, first of all, every single fight so far, you actually had the complete ability to EMP all of your opponent's army. The toss, although he did okay, very often was kind of late with his storms. Every single time, you had the chance to EMP before he stormed. It's basically the same ability, okay? Except after you cast your ability, he can't cast his anymore. So really, that was all on you. You could have stopped him by calmly spamming EMPs, rather than waiting for him to calmly spam his storms. it's not like you were doing anything else well I guess move commanding into your opponent army does count as something but not a single time that you stim during any of the big fights your stutter stepping was like a cowboy on a horse not shooting the villain in the movie that's a great analogy there Kevin and really milking that one honestly I think your scouting consistent of sending in a Medivac let me not forget about dead. You left your tanks at home. You fought without tanks in some of the fights. And then your macro actually wasn't bad. Like, okay, you macroed fine. You did okay there with every single fight you too. You didn't storm. You moved commanded. And or you didn't, yeah, you didn't stim. You moved commanded. You walked into storms. Your EMPs were almost always too late, except for the one time where you sacrificed nine ghosts. There your EMPs were on time, but you did lose nine goes. I'm not sure if that's worth it completely. Yeah, honestly, I think not only did you suck more than your opponent here, but you also just suck in general. You are a mentally deficient turtle, and that's just the way it is. That's a new stamp right there, hamster. Pop like a turtle stamp, right next to the suck logo. That be tight. All right, that's going to be it for today's episode of Am I a turtle or is it in balance? Thanks everyone for watching. If you liked it, don't forget to watch more of these videos. And don't forget to hit the subscribe button and smash like. These things half a lot. Bye-bye.