MaxPax's PHOENIX RANGE RUSH Comeback?! (StarCraft 2)

Best-of-5 series of top level StarCraft 2 between Clem and MaxPax, a Terran versus Protoss, that is the finals of the ESL Open Cup 229 Europe.

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StarCraft 2 is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Kijkwijzer (Dutch viewer guide): 6, violence, fear

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[eltoro]

I have NEVER played StarCraft or anything similar, but even though I don't understand much, I honestly love your videos. Keep it up!

[douglasgoodwon]

Always gets me seeing a viking or two try and land to escape a bunch of phoenixes, only to get yanked back up

[jgentilucci]

@21:55 I would LOVE to build a CC in your mineral line, friend protoss. What's that? Oh no, don't worry about the giant cannons we are building on top, its just for your protection ;)

[SKy_the_Thunder]

EMP would feel more powerful if it had a more obvious animation, yeah.
Maybe something like an easily visible shockwave covering its radius, along with electric sparks exploding from all affected units.
Also a distinct sound. Sound design helps a lot with readability.

[patrikhala]

Probably a delay of the EMP deployment (circa 0, 5–1 s) would help to counter that at least a bit.

[eugeniusmorar]

That hold by Maxy in 2nd game was legendary. That colossus pick up micro legit saved the game

[toddgreener]

Turns out fast flying plane with guns: pretty good!

[bricelory]

EMP almost certainly needs a re-work. Not only shields, but the ability to effectively turn off opponent's casters is massive.

17:25 Maxpax dancing with pickup/drop

[justsaying]

Clem has only lost 2 tournament late games against MaxPax this year (except when Clem had a really bad start and is forced to turtle hard). It's almost as if Terran has this very overpowered mid to late game unit that counters all Protoss units or something.

[awrawrwar]

As a casual SC2 enjoyer, I do think EMP is overpowered. Just watching EMPs absolutely strip basically half health off Protoss units (and all the health, in the case of archons) is really a bit too much. I think depleting shields and energy is fine, but maybe reducing either the amount it burns away, or increase the energy cost of EMP would probably be a good way to balance it? But again, I'm just a viewer man, I dunno.

[ryanfahey]

"What about second cyclone?" "I don't think they know about second cyclone."

[yamine_Q_ray]

i literally only watch starcraft and from what ive seen in games that reach a point where ghosts come out to me it looks like ghosts are like the best thing you could have in those situations . against protoss EMP just seems like a free nuke that also has the bonus of getting rid of energy and against zerg it seems keep things that would be used to counter ghosts in check. plus snipe just seems to make them really good against any of the bigger zerg units.
from a spectator perspective ghosts just seem busted

[andrewpan]

Every maxpax game I watch I become more convinced that maxpax is secretly serral

[sundeaththefirst]

the spoiler shield is overrated, batman killed thanos and that newspaper chef is spiderman

[NickCombs]

Yeah until you mentioned EMP a few casts back, I didn't know it was a thing as a casual viewer.

[Duocek]

lowko's new catch phrase, "you know em you love em"

[knivesoutcatchdamouse]

Disclaimer: this forthcoming rant is about professional level SC2, not casual Ladder games!

Terran has so many options, almost every different Terran comp counters the majority of Protoss builds. Protoss have to win by just playing better than their opponent and being dirty. Terran units are also just better baseline (without upgrades), cost less, and use less supply overall.

Protoss gets the badass Immortal and the useful Oracle, and a few janky gimmicks with long cooldowns, and that's it. Everything else has serious caveats, or is reliant on upgrades to be even usable. PvT balance is overall pretty shite.

At the very least, they should let Protoss be able to make Observers from Nexii once they have a Robo Bay, to free up their precious Robo Facility production time. Multiple Obs are pretty much always necessary and they are constantly getting sniped, especially since their size got increased, but your Gateway units can only do so much without any Robo units to back them up.

Also, why the actual f*** is Protoss the only race where the opponent gets to see what units your production buildings are making? Why did Blizz have to make Stargates show the enemy whether you're building a Phoenix, Carrier, Tempest, etc?

[Nomadsc]

I believe clem is going to surpass maru as the undisputed #2 in the world/ best terran
But i believe whole heartedly maxpax is the next serral. One day he's going to be running world championships without dropping maps. His level of growth is insane

[Mikivericks]

Thanks for the video, Lowko. Welcome back God-Emperor! ❤