Maru's MASS GHOST STRATEGY – Starcraft 2: Maru vs. Solar

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1. I feel bad for Solar man. I think Maru is just giving him PTSD.
   Always those big moments where he "almost" does it but then something catastrophic happens.
   Whether its a nuke hitting every broodlord because he lost vision.
   Hero widow mine connections that turns a doomed fight for Maru
   Same widow mines hitting your entire flock of mutas
   Or sometimes just leaving your lurkers alone for 2 seconds.
   And to add salt on the wound? forgetting you need to move your overlord to spot the siege tanks. Something im sure he has done thousands of times on ladder. And he just forgot under the pressure.

   A really basic mistake in his eyes when he rewatches the game later.
   Dont get me wrong Maru forced a lot of those mistakes but man. Solar just gets so many of those crucial moments on a coin flip and he always flips tails.
   He looks so tilted. When you reach a point like this its hard to even keep playing a game like starcraft.
   Its one thing to get stomped but getting close to winning and it being decided on a flip is fine the first few times.
   It happening again and again? My man is gonna some serious theraphy later on in his life.

2. You could tell maru got into solars head here. Solar was being overly aggresive every time it played right into maru hand

3. Solar, classy exit. Wp!

4. i'm beginning to feel more and more that it's actually pretty bad in general to bank as terran, esp if it's not TvT.
   protoss and zerg can use banks because they can just unload all that money to quickly get back to max supply, so it's useful for them, but terran? you don't have the instant reinforcement like protoss nor the huge amount of swappable production like zerg if you try to hold onto a bank, instead, if you lose your army all of a sudden, you need a bunch of time to build up forces again and you need something to cover for your production while that happens. So, why not spam CCs? they block the way and themselves look like decent chew toys/targets (planetaries especially can just blunt an attack or take really long to blow up) and so they help cover for your production as you try to get a critical mass again.
   the issue with spamming other stuff like engis or production is that they're not a threat nor are they a good target, so you're relying entirely on them blocking the way instead of being a distraction, and opp will just break one line and slip straight through. Them being smaller means it's also a bunch more apm (1.5 to 2x even) to make the same amount of effective sim-city compared to just slapping down ccs

5. Omg Lowko is one of the casters?

6. Nice to see Lowko doing casting with Pig.

7. Safe to say Maru was the reason for the ghost nurf in recent patch.

8. 22:08

9. are these finals? no, right?
   so solar's like: you better fucking win in finals maru, you fucking better

10. 10:12 his inner Scottish took over there 😀

11. Lowko + Pig = fun

12. That ling flood… This was the most beautiful defence I've seen in a while! Maru hanging on by the skin of his teeth until the very end!

13. gg wp take trophoy instead of me😔

14. Serral lost to ragnorok … serral is such garbage

15. “ gg wp take the trophoy instead of me “ 😅

16. As someone who improves by watching the top level of play, I love that you showed bits from their perspective. It’s nice to see their group setups as well as seeing how fast they really are.

17. Maru a day, keeps the Zerg at bay

18. Lowko commenting this one, nice

19. the GOAT, best at every matchup. unlike a fluke losing every ZvZ

20. Stop cutting up matches

21. Thank you for the awesome content on a regular schedule!

22. Bro thinks he's uthermal

23. Amazing to hear Lowko commentating at Katowice, such a great content creator who’s deserved big commentating gigs for a long time 👏🏼

24. why does maru have a rag on his mouse? looks super obstructive.

25. I'm liking the PiG/Lowko commentating

26. Is that a towel under Maru's mouse hand? Why? Does it somehow help with his wrist issues?

27. Im so glad to hear Lowko here!!!! At first i thought theres some other speaker named very similar but then i realised thats actually you!!!

28. Finals?

29. 1:55 this around the time i just alt+f4…

30. SPEAKING OF MARU………….tough loss 🙁

31. maru just pumping suicidal ghosts into hydra ling bane definitely has a "get out of my game" feeling to it lmao

32. I love lowko commentary! Amazing match

33. No tastosis no like

34. Excited for your Katowice highlights, some epic games and series! 🙏

35. Old man Maru proving he is still the GOAT. #gotMaru?

36. Is that lowko hosting?

37. Why has this ridiculous practice of cutaways, showing players hands, first person view etc made a resurgence? It adds nothing, It was annoying years ago, and it's still annoying now.

38. love this casting duo.

39. Two figures step out into the spotlight
    Maru "Prepare for trouble~" pulls out ghost
    Byun "Make it double!" pulls out reaper

40. 17:40 Excuse me, but that is not a "1-1-1 build", that is the "Destiny-Cloud-Fist" Build!
    RIP Husky :'(

41. Heavy uThermal breathing

42. Does anyone know what mouse and keyboard maru is using? This event had such a great view of everyone's hands, I'm super curious!

43. was that LowKo as one of the commentators? He went such a long way since I heard him last time on a major tournament, previously squeaky boy now doing a such a great job 🙂

44. man lowko is such a boring caster, really doesnt add anything, instead takes away time from pig's actually insightful casting

45. Poor solar, he needed someone to take out Maru early like Byun did in the Korean tournament

46. I can barely comprehend what’s happening. It blows my mind how they play at this level…

47. Mad respect to Solar, showing grace in defeat despite being so frustrated. Imagine someone like Idra in that situation…

48. Great video and commentary. Thank you!