To be more precise, Akrij was diamond 3 (from 2800 to 3200 MMR) for more than 5 YEARS. Since 2018. Hardstuck at the same level for 5 years. And then cyclones come around aaaaand.... He gains more than 2000 MMR in 2 months.
@aaabatteries9948
5 ай бұрын
Cyclones are not even that good. Im guessing he got to GM mostly through cheesing which is not that crazy tbh. I got to masters 1 as protoss with cannon rushing even though im a master 3 Terran primarily because most people don't know how to defend against it properly. Were I to play normal macro games i could never get to M1 with toss, im certain of it.
@Jesu32
5 ай бұрын
yeah he literally just cheeses with cyclones @@aaabatteries9948
@pamsp
5 ай бұрын
But remember kids, the patch was to buff protoss in pvt
@manguito598
5 ай бұрын
@@aaabatteries9948 How dare you call this cheese
@notrather5514
5 ай бұрын
@@aaabatteries9948 Just watch the video :D
@akrij1211
5 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot Harstem for interiew and sorry everyone for my awfull eng =D
@baluba006
5 ай бұрын
It was fantastic!
@Tsnafu
5 ай бұрын
What happened to your twitch account akrij1211? I saw you do this to Thriving (you lost that time) and immediately followed you but it say you have been suspended? "This channel is currently unavailable due to a violation of Twitch's Community Guidelines or Terms of Service."
@DalmarLesage
5 ай бұрын
Your english is good enough that it can be understood, so don't worry about it. Congratulations on reaching grandmaster! You did amazing.
@JanGaarni
5 ай бұрын
Don't worry, it was more than sufficient to understand you. Never apologize again. 😊😊
@akrij1211
5 ай бұрын
@@Tsnafu TBH no one knows... after sc2 streams with amberdrake, my sister and her BF, where we were teaching them sc, i got banned for "Sexual content" for Indefinite time period.... After 7 years of streaming almost daily. Maybe on vid you can hear, that i am not in good mental state, so sorry
@glorfindel2740
5 ай бұрын
Harstem: Did you make it? Did you steal it? Akrij: I stole it form you.
@professorquack
5 ай бұрын
Star Wars plot twist
@doomkoala
5 ай бұрын
It's hilarious that Harstem's own cheese came back to haunt him. Just made even dumber.
@elitper994
5 ай бұрын
Barracks: What is my purpose? Akrij: You build 2 reactors then fly across the map.
@matth1005
5 ай бұрын
Not enough terrans have the balls to play true mech. He even sends his SCVs to war so that zero bio units will remain
@LittleRainGames
5 ай бұрын
pass the butter
@MattSlaughter
5 ай бұрын
@@LittleRainGames Oh My God
@imjesperbtw
5 ай бұрын
Scanning ahead so you can figure out where to click is a brilliant way of dealing with your own lower APM. This guy is truly brilliant!
@ddenozor
5 ай бұрын
also you don't need to worry about decision making because you make your decisions on the way
@LucianDevine
5 ай бұрын
It's not about clicking more. It's about clicking the right stuff and places!
@LegionL-A
5 ай бұрын
@@ddenozor the REAL decisions are the ones we made along the way, friend.
@kcStranger
5 ай бұрын
This actually makes a ton more sense when you consider that Akrij is Grandmaster in League of Legends. League doesn't require nearly as much APM or multitasking as Starcraft, but it does demand really good control and decision-making. Maybe the build is OP, but I think the bigger thing here is that he found a build that plays to his strengths.
@ryanjensen1945
5 ай бұрын
Yeah I think this is a really interesting and important point that's kind of glossed over in the video.
@rollcat
5 ай бұрын
Exactly this. When I've heard he's only got 1k games in SC2, my first thought was "maybe he's actually talented, but at first couldn't find the opportunity to let that talent flourish". He's now facing other Terran GMs on the ladder, and any one of them with more experience/mechanics/skill should be able to recognize him, execute his build against him, and roflstomp him - but it's actually Zerg that's currently causing him trouble. Akrij is actually good at the game.
@Nopejams
5 ай бұрын
This is what i was going to say. Sometimes it takes time and the right conditions for some players to shine and others to fall off.
@JurekOK
4 ай бұрын
precisely -- he said that he needs vision to plan what to attack in which order. Moreover, the mobility of cyclone and high DPS enable him to snipe precisely the targets that he needs to get the best gradient of power. His friends try the same build order and it doesn't work, precisely because the first 3-4 targets sniped decide if the opponent can recover or not. In other words, decision-making wins. Good job mate! Go Czechia!
@nathankucera9135
5 ай бұрын
This is the best IIODIS episode by far
@marcinnowogorski
5 ай бұрын
and Akrij does not suck :)))
@tonyli4921
5 ай бұрын
but what about our captain himself?
@JesusShaves5
5 ай бұрын
The answer to is it IMBA or does he suck? Yes.
@matth1005
5 ай бұрын
Harstem is finding evidence for cyclones imba after they killed his proxy hatch
@marcinnowogorski
5 ай бұрын
@@JesusShaves5 why not both :)
@hiramrichmond3341
5 ай бұрын
I love how Harstem wanted to know how much he got flamed XD
@sakesaurus
5 ай бұрын
that's sc2 for ya Some games you jus can't win. And that gets on people's egoes. How silly. Imagine getting butthurt over a game like sc2.
@dsge3
5 ай бұрын
Low iq: I'll just make a bunch of cyclones and win the game Average iq: Nooo you need a real build order and lots of practice High iq: I'll just make a bunch of cyclones and win the game
@user-ur2kn5ur8g
5 ай бұрын
His APM of 69 is epic.
@octav3k
5 ай бұрын
Or at least nice
@DaRealNeithan
5 ай бұрын
So is your Thumbs up now xD
@ATB80
5 ай бұрын
Wrong. It indicates that the game is broken at a fundamental level. The fact this works is insulting, not funny.
@XenOxygen
5 ай бұрын
I have immediately figured out the Czech accent. Well done man, more of our Czech players on the ladder!
@jaroslavstepan6084
5 ай бұрын
Yeah. It kinda reminded me of the video of Stanislav Řezač at some point XD. But its good.
@thebabypixel4035
5 ай бұрын
Spy, a european cheeser did the same thing with zerg back in like 2019 I think. he went from plat 2 I think to 5.4k gm on na server using 12pool spinerush in ZvZ, 2base nydus ling in PvZ, and fakemacro banebust in PvT. took him about 2 months. I was very salty that he made it while I was hardstuck diamond, so I challenged him to a game, and thats the story of how I beat a grandmaster zerg in a macro game
@sakesaurus
5 ай бұрын
bane bust in pvt bro did you mean zvp and zvt?
@PureMatteo
5 ай бұрын
he meant ZvP. Banebust works to GM in ZvP you rush and hide zerglings make 5+ banes which blow up the unit blocking the wall and/or the pylon if it's reachable to deactivate the wall. Made well and executed well it's a legit ZvP cheese to mid GM
@Zombles581
5 ай бұрын
This is clearly the son of the dad who only built marines. He has achieved greatness
@neruneri
5 ай бұрын
Fear the man who has mastered a single punch.
@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan
5 ай бұрын
I love everything about this :D how Harstem found him that Harstem is doing a video about this how he refined the proxy build into something else less than 1000 games to gm how he is flamed and Harstem is asking about it
@Kogwah
5 ай бұрын
Harstrem knows how painful this is for so many people to hear and he just laughs uncontrollably 😂
@collingraf606
5 ай бұрын
Akrij is an absolute beast ahaha. I hope he inspires more people to try finding and refining builds to that level
@CabbageCookies13
5 ай бұрын
ive never seen harstem so happy before
@MarlonSolisFallas
5 ай бұрын
He's like a proud dad bewildered at his son's success, we need to have a match between them 😂
@tititiwon
5 ай бұрын
no point. This guy is surprinsinglt exploiting this build above diamon, which is well known in plat. He has no second chance@@MarlonSolisFallas
@nath_rages
5 ай бұрын
7:07 Harstem cracking up at Akrij getting flamed a lot is primo content 😂 This was the cheesiest man alive meeting one of his idols (that he didn't know he had)
@jasoncrownover8947
5 ай бұрын
Perfecting the dumbest plan ever down to its smallest detail is perhaps the most Terran thing possible.
@AntiDoctor-cx2jd
5 ай бұрын
So accurate that I don't even need to make my own comment. Terrans can always come from nowhere because there's not a skill barrier to make the highest level. This is why Oliveria can shock IEM with terran.
@WhitefoxSpace
5 ай бұрын
The best is it's not even perfected to the smallest detail, it's barely perfected at all 😂
@vigilanterorschach2600
5 ай бұрын
@@WhitefoxSpace Obviously since he is not a great player just someone who cheeses a lot. It is like if you have one opening in chess and the opponents just never played you before so they don't know the response to it. (well that may not be the best example since grandmasters in chess now most of the openings and how to counter them but let's move on) Also he has like 70 APM which certainly doesn't help if you want to perfect any build.
@tambaz2276
5 ай бұрын
@@AntiDoctor-cx2jd lol what's your MMR with Terran?
@AntiDoctor-cx2jd
5 ай бұрын
@@tambaz2276 only a great fool would ask about the mmr in this situation
@HiroTeaShi
5 ай бұрын
A poor build order executed perfectly is better than a perfect build order performed poorly. Credits to this man for his hard work and sticking to it. This is hilarious and really brings a smile to my face
@akrij1211
5 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot
@houtamelocoding
5 ай бұрын
The best part is that this isn't a poor build order, it's a very good one :)
@WhitefoxSpace
5 ай бұрын
This is basically Harstem reviewing his own IODIS form
@crahs8
5 ай бұрын
You have to do a cheesiest man alive with this now
@PonchoExperience
5 ай бұрын
Is it imba that a diamond player can beat gms with this simple strategy? No, harstem, you suck!
@burgesj7
5 ай бұрын
Gottem! ;)
@tititiwon
5 ай бұрын
yes, you gottem.
@starithm
5 ай бұрын
"WTF is this?" "no" LMFAO! 🤣
@WijnandHonselaar
5 ай бұрын
Best SC2 video of 2024
@justinhowe3878
5 ай бұрын
that time that harstem met the actual cheesiest man alive
@awmaas
5 ай бұрын
How incredibly satisfying it must be to be able to reply to "Bullshit, you're a liar" comments with a video of one of the bigger names in the community interviewing you 😂
@FakeSquid
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for interviewing this guy. Absolutely hilarious.
@user-rq2su3bd1j
5 ай бұрын
You just killed the ladder Harstem!
@phileas007
5 ай бұрын
so finally we found the IMBA holy grail.
@annoyed_kitsune
5 ай бұрын
Someone who played against this terran must send imbalance compaint to iodis.
@AntonioLopez-kw3ev
5 ай бұрын
@@annoyed_kitsunevery easy to hold in TvT it’s 2 bunkers/ wall off in natural and 7-10 scvs ready for auto repair marines and tank Viking
@annoyed_kitsune
5 ай бұрын
@@AntonioLopez-kw3ev i have 0 worries about tvt, it's mirror, therefore no balance complaints should be.
@canadianbakn
5 ай бұрын
This was such a good watch. Thanks for not beeping the swears out it made it funnier. This guy is a legend lol.
@Ahdragos
5 ай бұрын
Harstem just met his hero.
@SneakySnipar
5 ай бұрын
He really said "nah I'd win" and then proved it
@BrendonReimer
5 ай бұрын
watched this video and then immediately played against it on ladder. Thanks Hamster.
@Riledawg
5 ай бұрын
@Harstem Omg! That's extremely similar to my most successful strategy I've used as I've played SC2 on and off over the years. I had Broodwar as a kid; loved it. I love SC2 as well, and about halfway through SC2's existence, I made variations of cyclone/SCV rushes that I just called my cyclone rush in replays. It's had several variations because of how the cyclone has changed multiple times over the years, but, no matter the variation or patch, that's always been my best rush! Wow, that's just crazy to see. I have to say that I can play macro games and other builds, too. I'm not a noob or anything, but that's my most successful.
@allanandersen8972
2 ай бұрын
What a cool interview - a great show of sportsmanship and respect. Love it.
@josearmandogomezrocabado537
5 ай бұрын
I love how harstem checks this kind of things out. I love all content of this channel.
@Dusk-MTG
5 ай бұрын
This guy was the hero we didn't need, but the hero we deserve
@guyinthechat9533
5 ай бұрын
As protoss you can beat this build with a one base DT drop where you have about 4 dt's at their base at 4:15-4:20. You have to do some micro but the Terran will eventually run out of scans. You'll also need to warp a DT or two at home because he'll be halfway across the map when you are dropping at his side.
@ogfdnbvjkfdn
5 ай бұрын
title: This StarCraft II Player is incredibly BASED
@Umiale
5 ай бұрын
this guy sounds absolutely lovely lmao this is fantastic
@user-rf5lf7cq5e
5 ай бұрын
Gm players've been real silent since this dropped
@glassberg5018
5 ай бұрын
This is amazing and I am mentally preparing myself for facing clones of this build on the ladder.
@kalujny
5 ай бұрын
This is a gem. The guy deserves all the praise.
@NotTheFace506
5 ай бұрын
That is so cool. Nice guy, great story. I hope a gaming publication picks this up and gives him the credit he deserves
@LegionL-A
5 ай бұрын
I can confirm that as of today, the ladder is essentially 80%+ TvT games and it's hilarious 😂
@krz8888888
5 ай бұрын
That call was so much fun!
@Koqpe4KeH
5 ай бұрын
The man, the myth, the legend
@wedgeantilles8575
5 ай бұрын
Wow, I loved this video. You two guys were so happy and you had so much fun, it was absolutly contagious. I was grinning and laughing all the time :D This guy is an absolute genius - he analysed his weaknesses and adpoted a perfect strategy to circumvent these weaknesses. I salute you!
@Elfcheg
5 ай бұрын
I'm not scared of a man who trains 10,000 punches. I'm scared of a man who trains one punch 10,000 times.
@Abuzz03_
4 ай бұрын
10:05 Funniest part by far, “Had you beaten this guy already?” “Yes I think 3 times” “And… he was really pissed”
@7im13oiD
5 ай бұрын
lmao I really enjoyed this video nice shout out to a well deserved player. Well Done Harstem :D
@Tobiasz931
5 ай бұрын
I loved this interview!
@Junebug89
5 ай бұрын
I love everything about the Captain's reaction to this lmao. And I mean, learning that the cheese is adapted from a video he posted... hahaha
@LifeInspector
5 ай бұрын
What a legend, this guy is fucking great
@Groknik
5 ай бұрын
I loved everything about this interview.
@coreyjames7297
5 ай бұрын
Wholesome interaction lol
@stewartcollindavid45
5 ай бұрын
This might be the greatest sc2 content piece of all time
@owenthailand
5 ай бұрын
I think I play with this guy once, in a TvT. It is very difficult to scout into this build since most of the time terran will open with double gas, therefore they will not scv scout and will scout around their base for proxy first. when the time reaper reached his base cyclone will just kill them and we have no information. So unless you just build blind tank you have to be very precise with your reaper to counter it in TvT.
@robertmiddlebrook5505
5 ай бұрын
I think the key actually is to just give up the natural and pull up the ramp more than the tank. I've held this twice at this point and that was the most important part. You're just so hard to break up the ramp.
@owenthailand
5 ай бұрын
@@robertmiddlebrook5505 How many and what unit you have when this hit? I mean you can't just hold this with just scv.
@robertmiddlebrook5505
5 ай бұрын
For one of the games, I think I'd lost my reaper but I had I think 4 cyclones total with the last two just finishing as the attack hit. SCV's are key though. You definitely need to pull SCV's. But you generally can chew though a bunch of their scvs on the ramp up and then when they break through you pull. @@owenthailand
@Justbleed434
5 ай бұрын
Pull scvs for defense too?
@tititiwon
5 ай бұрын
It seems to me, you are facing normal difficulties of facing terran. They bunker and you cannot scout. I could have never imagined
@powerup9035
5 ай бұрын
Perfect video, thanks for the laughs
@VladieShark
5 ай бұрын
Get this guy on the next season of rank roulette!
@MatthewEverettGates
5 ай бұрын
Funny, sad / serious, wonderful Thanks for posting this great little interview!!
@ranger4455
5 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant 👏 👌
@ovidiun5218
5 ай бұрын
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing. ❤
@OmegaMikePL
5 ай бұрын
If it's stupid but it works then it isn't stupid.
@oliveira-ss2hd
5 ай бұрын
The most incredible part of all of this is that it was probably the first time that he faced a poxy hatch, judging by his reaction
@oliveira-ss2hd
5 ай бұрын
...in gm league, against an offracing pro, and he still won
@akrij1211
5 ай бұрын
Excatly😅
@Athanasia8818
5 ай бұрын
Loved this!
@AlexanderVoroncov
5 ай бұрын
what is too good about cyclones: dmg, hp or lock on range? Or they fine?
@domkaz1669
5 ай бұрын
Such a good video, so fun haha
@tatotato85
5 ай бұрын
I love EVERYTHING about this
@hivemind9643
5 ай бұрын
This made my day
@artcrafter9941
5 ай бұрын
this is madness. I love it
@ddenozor
5 ай бұрын
in the first match against SiFu, he could also land the barracks to block stalkers, and produce 2 marines there xD
@darnokx9277
5 ай бұрын
So... will we see one of these matches from the OTHER side in an upcoming IODIS?
@matth1005
5 ай бұрын
Balance council: Lord, if the new cyclone we created is imbalanced, give us a sign The Lord:
@Elundrilll
5 ай бұрын
this guy is a legend
@RupertBruce
5 ай бұрын
That's some solid micro - curious to know how the build fares against itself.
@ashleywalls4097
5 ай бұрын
lol this is hilarious!! love love love this dude.
@chir0pter
5 ай бұрын
Let’s go, this guy is following the MaxPax path!
@oOOoOphidian
5 ай бұрын
One of my friends got really into SC2 because I showed him a marine/scv pull build in WoL and he made GM with it before any of our friend group just by jamming that build every game. It's kind of amazing what works for people sometimes, especially cool hearing this player improved in macro games to such a degree too.
@eztvlight1202
5 ай бұрын
This is awesome content
@terrortree
4 ай бұрын
Yo, I just wanted to say thanks for this video! I've utilized this build on the ladder and am 9-1 in Diamond 2 right now! lol. Quite fun!
@messiethehamster957
5 ай бұрын
i cant wait for all my ladder games to start looking like this
@davidott9559
5 ай бұрын
As a diamond 3 Terran, this dude is my hero lol
@ATB80
5 ай бұрын
SC2 ladder in a nutshell. Whoever goes for the easiest, laziest strategy almost always wins.
@Sparta-vu3jj
5 ай бұрын
Great video Great conversation! Holy you got destroyed Harstem
@Madgistr8
5 ай бұрын
Will we see this build at Katowice?!?!??
@Cemow777
5 ай бұрын
Whats the league version of this build?
@davidfoley8546
4 ай бұрын
Best Starcraft content in years
@user-xb5qk3rp6y
5 ай бұрын
What a legend! Absolutely beautiful 😀
@richardgallimore5976
5 ай бұрын
This is hilarious. I took 23000 games to get to GM. So much watching videos on how to improve, etc, etc. This guy hit the same achievement far more efficiently & mined some nice salt along the way xD
@thearcanepony135
5 ай бұрын
The only case where scan actually makes sence
@roshango125ab
5 ай бұрын
I find the cyclone really funny because if you where around in late 2000s, waiting for SC2 to finally drop, you may have watched some of the trailers Blizzard dropped showcasing the SC2 Alpha at the time. In the video showcasing the Terran, they showcased a little unit called the Cobra, a unit with a railgun that did high damage to armored units, but more importantly fired on the move. This unit was eventually removed from the multiplayer during the alpha and made it's way into the Campaign, most of you would recognize it as the Diamondback. This unit didn't make it to the multiplayer because it was extremely difficult to balance. The ability to fire on the move made it easy to micro to the fullest with little effort. If it was overturned it could basically be an unstoppable death machine. If they tried to nerf it to compensate for the ease of use, it would be basically useless. And so I found it very funny when the cyclone was added because it's lock on wasn't exactly like the diamondback/cobra, but the idea was very similar. And so it's no surprise that the cyclone has had such a turbulent balance history.
@DJ-3maj
5 ай бұрын
Oh Captain, My Captain! After years of failed IODIS submissions, you took it upon yourself to brew a cocktail of abomination of a build that even a low ranked Terran player can throw at the veterans of the game and laugh as they hopelessly lose. A thing of beauty.
@zen23ish
5 ай бұрын
13:10 My same reaction LOL!
@DalmarLesage
5 ай бұрын
This is amazing. Props to Akrij.
@chir0pter
5 ай бұрын
2:30 haha I remember this game!
@isuckatgaming7589
5 ай бұрын
Evidence we should nerf the cyclone
@joshuadalton6063
5 ай бұрын
Nah its just a highly specialised build that will probably get figured out in the next week how to beat. It reminds me of the proxy voidray from 18mo or so ago, although that one was around for quite a while at the lower levels.
@norberthiz9318
5 ай бұрын
@@joshuadalton6063 you mean the one which got triple nerfed because terrans kept crying about it? It wasn't figured out, at least the reason its no longer a thing is not because it was figured out, but because of the nerfs. So it is pretty reasonable to nerf the cyclone, but since we are talking about a terran unit and not a protoss one, it is probably not gonna get nerfed.
@joshuadalton6063
5 ай бұрын
@@norberthiz9318 I believe that was figured out by simply scouting towards your third, but maybe the response required was still difficult, maybe you remember better than me. IDK how you nerf cyclone to prevent this all-in, a small increase in build time maybe, but tbh its on people to scout lack of expansion and treat it as a 1base all-in the same way as every other 1base all-in.
@norberthiz9318
5 ай бұрын
@@joshuadalton6063 I have a pretty good sulotion. Just revert the cyclone back. There was no reason to rework it at all and the rework failed anyway. It would be 100% better for the game I belive uthermal made a guide on how to defend the proxy voids, but it was still very difficult, cause you had very little room for error. It was certainly insanely op, even at pro level it was commun.
@Momo-96
5 ай бұрын
This looks so OP lol. I can see pro players doing this
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