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Serral vs Neeb

15.11.2020 14:00
(EEST, Helsinki, Finland)

Serral is a DH SC2 Masters Winter Grand Finalist! He gave Neeb no time to breathe as the constant aggression took down the Protoss 3-0.

Maps:
✔️ Jagannatha
✔️ Oxide
✔️ Lightshade

Serral took the momentum in the first game on Jagannatha and ran through the whole series with it. He took a perfect series against the number 1 NA player, and made it look easy.

Serral opted for aggressive, pool first openings in each game, which benefitted him a lot. In both Games 1 & 3 he managed to kill a gateway and 2 zealots as they shuffled a bit awkwardly while defending the wall, and got surrounded by the early lings. 

On Jagannatha and Oxide Serral went for Swarm Host nydus play, which worked out like a dream. Jagannatha has ideal landing strips for the locust swarms to take off and fly right into the precious mineral lines of the opponent. The economic lead Serral gained from the constant aggression just snowballed, until it crushed the Protoss army.

In game 3 Serral gets a good read on Neeb's transition into mass Phoenix play. He prepares for it well with spores and queens, but it still manages to wound the Zerg worker count and threaten the army. Serral's answer to this is corruptor play, as need transfers into void ray production. As Neeb goes in for a final, dangerous-looking push, Serral just barely manages to clean it up, and his corruptors seal the victory as they fly over to the Protoss side of the map, making sure the Neeb can't recover.