Serral vs. Clem - EWC StarCraft II | Day 5 - Final Four

💥 The battlefield is heating up as the best StarCraft II players face off in a fierce competition!

📅 The battle begins in the Group Stage, where only the strongest will advance to the Knockout Stage. From there, the stakes get even higher as the remaining contenders fight for their spot in the Final Four!

🌟 Will your favorite player dominate the battlefield and rise to the top, or will a dark horse emerge as the ultimate champion? Don’t miss a single moment of the action★July 3 - August 25★

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[alexilaine]

Now Serral knows how it usually feels to play against Serral

[TrentBattyDrums]

5-0 AGAINST SERRAL?! GIve this man 2 trophies! WHAT A LEGEND!

[shohokuslamdunk]

Speechless. Clems record for the tournament
3:0 against Classic
3:2 against Reynor
3:0 against Serral
4:0 against Hero
5:0 against Serral
Never seen Serral gets demolished like this

[TTArt]

I'm a Serral fan and have been following him play in most big tournaments for past 6 or so years. I have never seen him this frustrated and helpless in a series before. This was one of those series where it must've felt like no matter what you do your opponent always is one step ahead. Clem played insanely well. Super on point with both micro and macro. Well deserved win. Still sad for Serral but even the GOAT can't win every time.

[redleader]

Idk, there were times when Serral got kind of close.

I think we should nerf Protoss just to be safe.

[Butcho]

Me before I started the replay: "I don't know if I can stomach watching Serral stomp Terran in another final."

Me after it's over: "The bad man can't hurt you anymore!"

[l-Citrn-l]

Well reynor despite his loss can be proud to be the only player who was able to take a map from Clem.

[ExploreWJoey]

Been a Serral and dark fan for years, and seeing this game can still produce a crazy player like clem this is incredible. STARCRAFT 2 is a beautiful game

[Carvilrave]

Man... Clem was absolutely perfect.
Serral just got wrecked. You can see the pain in his eyes.

[chinogambino]

Clem playing on another level, no macro missed, defending run bys and always attacking and maximizing damage. Usually Serral can do things to tax the APM of other players but this time Clem was like a wall. The last game was just resignation.

[Nil-jsbf]

I haven't been following SC2 tournaments recently so I didn't even realize this is effectively the Blizzcon with a 400k?!? prize pool. What a time for Clem to go into the zone. Major props to him, I was blown away by his speed years ago and it's finally paid off in such a high stakes tournament. Well deserved.

2nd game with two cancels on the 4th is unheard of for Serral but he almost came back thanks to that counter on the third - Clem was quite prepared as well with hellions and reinforcement marines there but the units were clumped so that was a pretty quick -12 scvs. Clem also made quite a few micro mistakes like not picking up all his ghosts when caught on the map. Serral's creep spread on this game wasn't amazing though, probably due to Clem's non stop pressure - would have still expected more creep on the top side though since a lot of the skirmishes were on the bottom but maybe he lost the creep spreading queens. And Zerg without maphack and speed boost is really very fallible.
5:27 Now that usually never happens
24:24 Cute bane snipe
25:57 Pretty big mistake leaving at least 4 ghosts behind there
27:33 Nice scan. Was wondering how Clem knew - Serral moved it down into turret vision a few seconds earlier and Clem saw that.
27:55 Cute ghost save
28:12 Nice widow mine unburrow
36:02 Very cute reaper save
37:16, 37:26 Wow, I heard Serral had a fever? Anyway, very uncharacteristic for these things to happen to him
38:03 After seeing Maru just roll over and die to these timings, I'm surprised at how cleanly Clem held that. I wonder if diving in with all those roaches and getting surrounded by scvs and marines before reinforcements could arrive was a bad idea... Maybe losing the overlord at 37:59 meant Serral didn't have vision of high ground to know tanks weren't there at the time and he could just take a more direct path up without trapping himself.
40:45 Yeah, it's really not Serral's day today
41:20 Serral so tilted he cancelled the hatch accidentally after the first cancel
42:46 Very cute drone snipe
43:42 That's insane, I was preoccupied watching Clem defending, sieging/unsieging and counter pushing on the main screen and was shocked to see him also microing aggressively and sniping a viper on the other side of the map.
51:19 Finally, a drone not getting interrupted as it tries to morph into an expo. Must be a sign for Serral's comeback.
51:29 Artosis makes a good point that 2 of the games were roach timings and the third game had interrupted expos. But to be fair to Serral, he chose to do roach timings on maps with really good tank positions/short pushes
54:46 Am I tripping or did Serral accidentally cancel the hatch 2 times again?
55:30 Wow, starting hive at 6:34
1:00:11 Uncharacteristic of Clem - he didn't notice that his 2nd engineering bay wasn't researching +3 armor
1:01:45 Game looking a lot more like Serral's bread and butter. Creep covering half the map or more, burrowed infestor traps and taking the opponents bases as well
1:02:05 Massive catch by Serral there
1:02:50 Love to see theoretically correct play - mine the risky bases first while you still have map control
1:03:34 Signs of Clem slipping a bit after all the cute stuff above - he didn't kill that drone!
1:04:49 Love to see more theoretically correct play, put a nydus there so you have a retreat path for drones now that the sensor tower spots it
1:08:02 Feels like it's been ages since I've seen a cat and mouse game with ghosts trying to hunt down infestors to EMP
1:08:44 I'm not sure how to even read that engagement. Seemed like only 3-4 snipes actually went off
1:10:00 LMAO, Artosis is right, that doesn't make sense. It's surprising that Clem was able to pick off the right side bases so effectively. That position with turrets and a PF in the middle of the map might have been pretty damn smart, it really neutralized Serral's army movement speed advantage between the left and right sides of the map pre brood lord. The high ground in middle and choky ramps all over the place really make it tough for Zerg so sure, if you can hold that position, why not.
1:14:40 That was a master class by Clem. Sure the map helped him but still, not many Terrans could have done that to Serral. GGing with 8k/3.3k in the bank because you were methodically pushed all the way to your fourth and reinforcement lines were cut in half with no creep spread left. Seriously impressed cause that is such a rare phenomenon - the equivalent of killing a Terran with a massive bank because you effectively camped their production.
1:23:40 Not sure if Serral slipped up on macro or not but it's weird seeing Serral down so much supply in a ZvT push like this. Even after he cleans it up, he's still down on supply. In fact, Clem manages to maintain a supply lead (even if a good chunk of it is in production) after each skirmish for the next 4-5 minutes. That seems really unusual.
1:27:03 Omg, I didn't even notice a widow mine was there. That was disgustingly good for Clem. Serral usually notices and reacts like a god to mines so it's uncharacteristic this happened, especially since the lings had vision and clumped to attack the mine.
1:27:30 If Serral wasn't tilted by now, I'm tilted for him. I just noticed that his cam has been frozen for a while now
1:27:56 Okay, that plus the parasitic bomb killing a full medivac in the earlier engagement helps make up for some of the mine shots
1:28:09 I'm so used to Serral splitting like a god vs mines that seeing mine shots like this and in the fight a few seconds from now confuse me
1:29:26 I don't think I ever see Serral accidentally select a drone into his main army
1:30:18 Omg, I thought Serral was about to have revenge for those 2 sniped vipers by fungalling that entire army. How on earth did Clem know to scan himself? Maybe he knew cause Serral was posturing to attack him and that only makes sense if an infestor was there? I would have looked at it and assumed Serral was just setting up a concave to defend his top base though...
1:30:56 Not every day you see Terran with a larger bank than the Zerg in a game like this

[jamesmears]

Whenever Tasteless does the intros I get chills... Tastosis is back baybeeee!!!! So much love for the best casting duo ever!!!

[tiberiusx]

Serral might be the GOAT but I think it's undeniable that this version of Clem in this grand final is the highest ceiling that any sc2 player has ever reached so far. Everything he did was damn near perfect.

[michaelmart]

Serral is GOAT, but the peak Clem hit here is just absurd.

[Caccac]

Thank you Clem, now everytime I am depressed I will come back and watch this 😅 God this was incredible

[carlosvaldez]

clem really hit serral with 8 consecutive wins this entire world cup.

clem without server delay/lag is a fckin menace! that two pronged attack at 44:00 with full micro on both armies at the same time is just absurd! --- do mind, this is AGAINST SERRAL, the GOAT!

[emilbek_isaev]

Thanks to Esports for organising this tournament.
And respect to Clem a New King of the Terrans!

[孫悟空-rw]

Clem created the new record of two 5:0 of final games.

[Landlord_Tipper]

Good for Clem. The kid is GIFTED and puts in the work to be the best.

[binaryvat]

This was a super-human performance. Just flawless gameplay from beginning to end, with twice the awareness and micro of Serral (the final boss). Just unbelievable what we just witnessed! So proud of Clem.