Symbol spawns in the bottom left
Squirtle spawns in the bottom right

0:00 - 4:00min
Squirtle starts with pylon at his natural, forge, pylon block at Symbol's natural,and his own nexus
Symbol opens 14 pool, hatch at his 3rd base, and his natural afterwards

4:00 - 8:00
Squirtle adds a gateway, cannon and cybernetics core to complete his wall
Squirtle gets a zealot, then warp gate and chronos a stalker

Symbol takes his 2 gas, and drones more, while adding a few lings
Squirtle takes more gas, puts down a stargate and gets phoenixes while marching to Symbol's 3rd with 2 stalkers and a zealot

Symbol saves his queen, loses nothing while Squirtle's stalkers get away

8:00 - 12:00
2*evo chamber for Symbol
3 more gates and a robo for First who researches +1 attack and gets a mothership core

Squirtle phoenixes arrive at Symbol before the spores are done, and do some damage.
Symbol technig to lair, gets roach warren, +1/+1 melee

Squirtle getting immortals from his robo, and adding a 3rd nexus, a robo bay, and going for +1 defense.
Symbol gets a spire, an infestation pit, roach speed, and produces many lings.

Symbol getting +2/+2 melee, and technig to hive, and roach speed
Squirtle starts getting void rays, and adds 2 more stargates

12:00 - 15:00
Squirtle add colossi with thermal lance. He catches zerglings with forcefields and kills about 10 of them
Symbol has been adding queen little by little and has 12 now.

Ultralisk den for Symbol, and 54 zerglings in production, while researching adrenal glands and +1 air attack
Squirtle adds void rays (4 total), immortals and upgrade air attack and shields

Squirtle denies Symbol's 4th with his army while Symbol has 6 ultralisks on the way

15:00 - 18:00
Symbol getting the greater spire, he has about 12 corruptors which take out the mothership corei n the open
Symbol researching the +3/+3 melee, and ultra defense upgrade, and adding many spines

Squirtle getting more immortals (9 total), and +2 attack
Symbol getting agressive close to Squirtle's 3rd, but getting away from a fight at the choke.

Symbol making 4 broodlords, getting +2 air attack and a nydus.
Squirtle adding a few archons to his deathball with lots of charge zealots

18:00 - 21:00
The two armies finally fight, the ultras die very fast to the immortals, Symbol loses everything except the corruptors, while Squirtle has retained most of his ground army and moves on Symbol's 5th
Symbol uses his massive bank to get back 7 broodlords an 80 zerglings.

Squirtle adds a 4th base which gets denied by SYmbols lings.
Squirtle starts to transition to tempests while Symbol adds 10 infestors.

21:00 - 27:00
Squirtle gets his +3 attack, adds archons and tempests and denies Symbols runbys while getting colossi
Symbol gets some ultralisks back to complement his infestor/broodlord/queens force

Squirtle tries to kill Symbol's 4th, but Symbol can transfuse it and keep it alive while cleaning the strike force
Symbol takes position and starts to advance towards Squirtle

Symbol fungals Squirtle on the top of his ramp, and engages the fight with infested terrans.
Squirtle gets the upper hand, and prevents Symbol from retreating through a nydus by killing it.

At the same time, Squirtle keeps on warping zealots in Symbol's bases with a warp prism, hurting his economy.

27:00 - 29:00
Both armies clash again close to Symbol's base, Squirtle's many archons destroy the army of Symbol in an instant.
Symbol GGs

(P)

Squirtle gives the win to LG-IM 4 - 3

Thanks for the LR

Had a lot of fun with your links in the OP! Ended with being a HerO, pretty cool ahah!

Well you are ;p

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

May 10 2013 12:35 GMT

#704

On May 10 2013 21:31 jackdaleaper wrote:
Props to Squirtle, but I think Symbol forgot that he's playing HOTS not WOL.... why no vipers....

Most Zerg don't go for Vipers simply because of the spell Feedback, guess it was a shock to them when HTs were first used and killed Vipers before they even could grab a thing. It should come back though seeing the success Zergs that use Vipers have.
Aside from that Symbol might hide his strategies.

anyway Yay LG IM !

FrostedMiniWheats

United States30730 Posts

May 10 2013 12:35 GMT

#705

On May 10 2013 21:33 kubiks wrote:

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Symbol was playing WoL all the way, no vipers, no swarm hosts, mass infestors (that got nerfed). The 3 tempests was all squirtle needed to roll his composition :D

Oh yeah the composition was off with way too many infestors, but his macro is insane and I love the nydus worm pushes with his army. He just needs to learn from this and he's good.

Laryleprakon

New Zealand9496 Posts

May 10 2013 12:36 GMT

#706

A lot better than most GSTL match's this season, would have been nice to see a terran tho

Gratz IM

Taefox

1533 Posts

May 10 2013 12:36 GMT

#707

Can't believe Squirtle could win this game xDDDD BOSS

Ysellian

Netherlands9029 Posts

May 10 2013 12:36 GMT

#708

On May 10 2013 21:32 Kommander wrote:

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PvZ is one of those matchups that is constantly being figured out. Helps that the players were top tier, too.

Whirlwind is a great map as well. As long as a split-map isn't possible PvZ can be really good nowadays I feel.

Kasaraki

Denmark7115 Posts

May 10 2013 12:36 GMT

#709

It's strange to see the players without glasses all of a sudden.

Lorning

Belgica34432 Posts

May 10 2013 12:36 GMT

#710

Squirtle looks a bit sweaty

tl2212

Belize731 Posts

May 10 2013 12:36 GMT

#711

all zergs lol...

kubiks

France1328 Posts

May 10 2013 12:38 GMT

#712

On May 10 2013 21:35 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:

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Oh yeah the composition was off with way too many infestors, but his macro is insane and I love the nydus worm pushes with his army. He just needs to learn from this and he's good.

I feel his push would have been really good if squirtle didn't had his tempests. But zerg lategame agaisnt protoss pretty much have to use SH, they are really powerfull.
Symbol was more doing some kind of timign push that failed. And he probably took too many gas, he was sooo mineral starved that he made infestors..

Kommander

Philippines4950 Posts

May 10 2013 12:38 GMT

#713

Wait hold on, is that Firebathero?

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

May 10 2013 12:38 GMT

#714

IM really needed this win, so nice to not be disappointed for once.

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

May 10 2013 12:38 GMT

#715

Lucky for Symbol he wouldn't have to play ZvP till the finals (or at all) if he were to try and make a run this season in GSL.

Kasaraki

Denmark7115 Posts

May 10 2013 12:38 GMT

#716

Now IM just needs to do a strong kill of Prime next week, shouldn't be too hard.

FrostedMiniWheats

United States30730 Posts

May 10 2013 12:39 GMT

#717

Hopefully they go back to bo9 completely next season. bo7 kind of ruins team league D;

At least with proleague you get 2 matches a day usually

Kasaraki

Denmark7115 Posts

May 10 2013 12:39 GMT

#718

On May 10 2013 21:38 Kommander wrote:
Wait hold on, is that Firebathero?

Yup!

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

May 10 2013 12:40 GMT

#719

On May 10 2013 21:39 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
Hopefully they go back to bo9 completely next season. bo7 kind of ruins team league D;

At least with proleague you get 2 matches a day usually

I wish they would change the format to PL format just because it favors us more >_>