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Hey !! En attendant mon nouveau montage photo que je vais pas tarde a poster je vous propose une petite game starcraft 2 = )

caster par pomf et thud cette game oppose kiwikaki vs stephanooooooooooooooooo et elle envoie du lourd !!

Tune in

English video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVDVNi5U5Ag

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Thanks <3 !!!!!

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Player Profile: ROOT_KiWiKaKi

KiWiKaKi

Name: Jonathan Garneau

Team: ROOT Gaming (inactive)

Alternate IDs: N/A

“The Mad Scientist Protoss”

Today, I would like to showcase a Protoss player who players newer to Starcraft 2 may not recognize, but should certainly learn all about: ROOT's KiWiKaKi!

Kiwikaki was once recognized as one of the strongest and most innovative foreigners to play Wings of Liberty in its early days. While mechanically weaker than other players, KiWi's playstyle is always creative and entertaining and has spawned some of the best games of Wings of Liberty.

The name KiWiKaKi literally means, "Green Kiwi," after the flightless bird native to New Zealand -- a crazy name fitting for a crazy Protoss player. Whether it's his distinct French-Canadian accent, off-the-wall builds, or comedic back-and-forths with teammate CatZ, KiWiKaKi is always a fun player to watch.

One Mothership to Rule Them All

KiWiKaki was known for his signature use of the Mothership in PvZ -- a unit originally considered by many to be too expensive and impractical for competitive play -- to dramatic and devestating effect.

This ladder game versus xlorD truly showcases the mobility of Blink Stalkers and the Mothership's Mass Recall abilities, although KiWi's set versus EG_Machine on Xel'Naga Caverns during the 2011 Reddit Invitational forever immortalized it.

But perhaps KiWiKaKi's greatest contribution to Starcraft 2 was his invention of the infamous Archon toilet, which became standard PvZ practice by the end of Wings of Liberty thanks to overpowered infestor/brood lord armies .

These many creative uses of the Mothership culminated in perhaps one of the greatest games of Wings of Liberty from 2011 IGN Proleague 3 between Kiwi and Stephano on Shattered Temple, a 50+ minute affair on a completely mined out map. If you have not seen this game before, drop everything you are doing, and watch it right now!

Rise and Fall from Competitive Play

KiWiKaki is a prime example of a player surviving by creativity rather than simply mechanics, as this game versus IdrA from IPL1 clearly demonstrates.

For example, when the build time for Gateway units was reduced in WOL Patch 1.3.3 in order to curb 4-gate rushes in PvP, Kiwi fashioned a new Forge expand into 2-gateway zealot rush in PvZ.

Kiwi showed an impressive string of results in Major League Gaming tournaments in 2010 and 2011, earning multiple Top 2 finishes, and even nearly qualified for 2010 GSL Season 3 Code A.

However, as time went on KiWi fell further and further behind the pack, as mechanically honed and well-practiced Korean competitors began dominating North American tournaments, and perhaps due to a lack of practice... or playing too much poker.

A Personal Legacy

KiWi streamed briefly on Own3d.TV before its dissolution. Back then as a budding diamond player, I was personally fascinated to watch him play, even though he was only playing SC2 casually by this point.

It was enlightening to see the (now stupidly) simple things I noticed Kiwi did drastically different from me: constantly building pylons, using the "Ctrl+F2" trick to select all idle probes to return them to mining, etc., even killing probes trapped between buildings that were essentially wasted supply.

His $1000 Best of 31 series vs ROOT_CatZ was also an intensive PvZ bootcamp for me. Namely, it emphasized the importance of cannons -- lots of cannons -- to defend expansions, and how to hold off Zerg's early pool cheese -- and how to cheese right back.

A few of their games even showed how to handle "ultimate" end game scenarios on a completely mined out map - sacrificing probes with your main army that are essentially dead supply, and trading them for army units as they die off.

While KiWiKaki remains an inactive member of the ROOT roster and will unlikely return to Starcraft 2 any time soon -- judging by the several months that have passed since the ROOT4ROOT hype trailer featuring him -- I can only hope Jonathan Garneau will return to the SC2 scene, even if only as a North American mainstay, and deliver us the mad scientist builds he became so beloved for.

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Why sleeping till one blows

Wins: 3 Loses: 2 I guess being liberal we could say that the first loss I had was because my computer lagged out and crashed and if one judges by tournament ruling it would have been a re-game. So I guess we could say 3W/1L? I don't know I'm counting it as a loss because my MMR/Score on the bracket counts it as a loss. Anyway I woke up late today. I like to wake up around 10:00 or 11:00, but I way over slept (probably because I stayed up till 5:00am this morning <.<) and only ended up getting to play five games this morning because my computer was lagging super hard and needed to be reset and all that good shit. I could honestly probably play another game or two but I wanted some time to write before work and get back into the groove of things. I only really had one game worth talking about and it was a PvT (Protoss vs Terran for my not SC2 related followers) on that new map. I think it's called Condemned Ridge? I don't know, but I do know its rush distance is fucking huge. The reason I find this game worth talking about is I feel like the only reason I won is because of micro early game helping me to win. The game starts out pretty standard, I scout no proxies and go standard with my 1G Fast Expand. In the time the match starts I miss a chrono on my cybercore and ended up a little behind, which sucks because this was the one game where I really couldn't afford to be behind. About the time I finish chronoing out my second stalker (my unit composition at the time was: Zealot, Stalker, Stalker) several Marauders show up. Like really early rushed 2rax only Marauders. Normally this is a very easy thing to deal with. Drop Forcefields, run zealots forward have stalkers focus Marauders. Terran can then either focus your stalkers and then die to the Zealots or focus the Zealots and die to the Stalkers. However with Two Stalkers and a Zealot and no sentries that wasn't an option. I managed to kill one of the Marauders with my Zealot microing against it. I drop a few more pylons and an extra gate way going into the not so standard 1gate FE into 4gate defense. At this point I'm focusing all my Chronoboosts on my Warp Gate. Its almost done and I just have to hold out. Shot by shot I carefully take out another Marauder. Then I look over at my natural and see my Nexus taking damage and almost finished. I cancel it at the last second and drop another two pylons. Warp Gate is almost up. Terran decides without the natural there its time to force his way up into my main. He had the numbers and the counter. So I pull about half my probes and A-Click his Marauders. They start focusing pobes and I manage to snipe another Marauder. Terran sees this and pulls out I pull my probes back to the mineral line after having only like three of them. Warp gate finishes and I warp in three zealots. I push out with the Zealots and Stalkers and I lose another Stalker but manage to kill the first wave of Marauders. Terran hadn't stopped making more and so they were rallied outside my base. I pull back and drop my Nexus and another Pylon. When Warp Gates are back up I warp in two more sentries and another zealot. He makes the mistake of waiting to get more Marauders and pushes again. At this point I'm up to four sentries 3 stalkers and a ton of Zealots. My force fields were perfect and he had no way to stutter step my zealots. He lost every single Marauder. I then drop a robo and a forge and warp in more zealots. I then spend every chronoboost I have on my Nexi catching up in probes. I still feel behind so I almost exclusively make Immortals and zealots until charge finishes. I also focus on getting a drop up. When Terran moves out I do a 10 Zealot Drop in his main and kill all of his workers at his main. He pulls his entire army back giving me enough time to finish Psy Storm. After a few micro intensive battles I establish a third and go up to 14 Gates. I focus on getting Zealots as buffer but when I have the gas getting Archons. The Terran never gets ghosts. He eats one too many psy storms and backs himself into his base using his own buildings and the fact Terran units shoot to do extra damage. Still he's cornered and takes more Psy Storms than he can handle and after his front gets smashed he GG's. It was a fun game, but its annoying because the guy at the end was only in Silver. I'd like to think if I'd not missed that chronoboost on my Warp Gate earlier on and thus had the units I should have had I would have just crushed him. Still its annoying to think I was in danger from a Silver League player. Especially because the game before him was a Diamond League Protoss (I won that too, but it wasn't as impressive). I have no idea what the fuck my MMR looks like right now. Anyway I have 30 minutes till work now that this is written up so yeah you've been filled in. Also I've decided that I'm going to try KiwiKaki's Stalker Colo Mothership Play he used vs Stephano next time I play a roaching opponent. Roaches are very good when they get you on the back foot, but I feel like if I can recall to my base when they counter attack I can really abuse the Stalker/Colo mix to snipe bases here and there.

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And...MASS RECALL

Music: Kamelot (The Black Halo) Starcraft 2: 1V1: 2W 1L, 2V2 4W 2L

Okay so the order of today was a little stressful and a little bit worried, but the result was that people particularly on the 2v2 Ladder died in droves. Turns out Kiwikaki's extremely mobile army that relies on Mass Recall is literally the greatest idea I have seen in a very long time. I love it almost as hard as I love Zealot Archon, and the places you can go once you get it up is amazing. For those of you in the audience who don't watch Day[9]'s Daily of Stephano vs Kiwikaki, I'll explain the premiss.

Step One: Tech to Colossai. This is very important because they provide vision and have extended thermal lance. Keep in mind you'll be needing stalkers with blink too so make sure to keep up on the teching. You want a powerful, versatile army that can dominate the ground and have decent protection from the sky.

Step Two: Make sure you're on multiple expansions, two is mandatory, three is preferred. This is just because this is a mineral heavy build, you can usually do alright without it, but don't be surprised if you become quickly overwhelmed. Also while expanding make sure you keep your gateways up, once your mothership is up and aside from the occasional colossus you'll want probably twelve gateways if you're on three bases to support stalkers.

Step Three: Get your mothership up, very important, actually the most important part of mass recalling is to get your mothership. Now for the non-protoss players who have never encountered the Mothership, here's why she is the biggest baddest arial bitch in all of Starcraft 2:

The Mothership is a slow moving massive unit that serves three main functions: The first and most noticable it turns EVERYTHING (buildings included) completely invisible. Thought Dark Templar were scary? Try a 100% completely invisible Protoss Deathball, because no we weren't scary enough when we could just kill everything at once. The second task the Mothership does is provides us with Vortex which is essentially a black hole we can use to trap half your army and subsequently kill the shit out of your other half. Finally the last task, and arguably the most important is Mass Recall which is really underused.

Mass Recall works the same way Nukes or Fungal Growth does. You get a relatively large circle that is your mouse and you click on your units with it. The moment you click your entire death ball army is teleported to the comfort and invisible safety under your mothership. This effectively means you can make a super dangerous, super mobile death ball that can effectively be in two places at once. You can attack anything at any given time and if the going gets bad you have a get out of jail free card. Or if you're attacking and your opponent decides for a base trade if you leave your mothership at home you can Mass Recall back to your base and keep yourself well and truly alive.

Anyway tonight we experimented with it, and aside from a match where we got mass zealot marine rushed and then another where we got dual toss two gate rushing us we won every match with it. It's not a quick kill, but it sure does make you feel like a bad ass.

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11:30 Closing time

Music: Whatever Shalinar's playing Starcraft 2: 4W 1L

So ending up today I experimented with a new strategy that I saw Kiwikaki using recently and it was pretty fantastic. The idea revolves around using a relatively mobile army like Stalker/Colossus and getting a mothership. Then using the Stalker Colossus you attack your enemy and constantly lay into them doing as much damage as possible. Then when your army starts to get weak you use Mass Recall and fall them back away from the enemy. Against the Terran I fought tonight (who had a huge advantage) it dominated him. Gonna probably play more games centered around this more aggressive style of play.

Other than that no real updates today, other than I got my first follower, which is completely fantastic. I officially have 8 fake followers and 1 real one! That's the infinite power of Protoss, we can get Hallucinated Followers that cloak our only really one unit. Anyway still no new vids to feed, because we have people over so it just didn't get done. Not sure I'll play much more tonight, got something on my mind. I'll update later.

GG -SaintEaon

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