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Craziest Micro Moments Of All Time?

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CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1710 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-02-11 04:45:51
February 09 2025 14:32 GMT
#1
Hey everyone, I’m really curious—what are some of the best or most intense micro moments you remember from StarCraft? Those ridiculous plays or near-impossible unit control feats that made you jump out of your seat and pray to Taeja or lord drg, I’d love to hear about those clutch unit saves/snipes, insane splits, or inhumanly fast blink micro that had you rewinding the stream just to see it again. What moments stand out to you the most, and why? Let’s talk about the craziest displays of skill you’ve witnessed!

Remember that we all come from a place of passion!!
ScrappyRabbit
Profile Joined March 2016
200 Posts
February 09 2025 20:28 GMT
#2
Off the top of my head, the ByuN 3-rax reaper TvZs would have to come into play -- he used the same strategy every time, nobody else could do it, only Maru even really tried it, and they ended up having to nerf the freaking unit.

While I'm thinking along those lines, probably have to mention the Maru vs. Serral game at...was it the EWC? Y'all know the one I'm talking about, where Serral used the single burrowed infestors so well in that crazy macro game they had that they had to nerf it in the next patch even though Serral was the only one doing it.

Just on this very website Miz mentioned Leenock's insane muta split against Armani in proleague...I don't have anything else beyond general stuff like [redacted]'s zergling micro during his royal road run, MC and PartinG's force fields, and of course MKP creating the marine split. Maybe the most iconic "micro game" would be the Squirtle-MVP GSL game 7 that started with a proxy 2-rax and came down to some absolutely insane mini-battles to decide the whole thing.

Oh, almost forgot my favorite ever! HoTS-era Maru countering colossus with jaw-dropping Marauder/Medivac micro instead of deigning to use Vikings.
bulldozer06701
Profile Joined July 2019
124 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-02-09 21:15:08
February 09 2025 21:12 GMT
#3
First game that comes to mind is featuring Marineking, from about a decade ago:




Oh, almost forgot my favorite ever! HoTS-era Maru countering colossus with jaw-dropping Marauder/Medivac micro instead of deigning to use Vikings.

Oh yes, those were beautiful!
CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1710 Posts
February 09 2025 22:04 GMT
#4
I remember Day[9] was casting I think it was MLG and Scarlett had clutch burrow banes that won her the game vs I think Bomber. That felt incredible at the time.
Remember that we all come from a place of passion!!
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
386 Posts
February 09 2025 22:14 GMT
#5
I can't remember what game that was, but there was one when a recently resurfacing Parting did hilariously good prism colossus micro, almost styling on his opponent.
CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1710 Posts
February 09 2025 22:16 GMT
#6
On February 10 2025 07:14 lechatnoir wrote:
I can't remember what game that was, but there was one when a recently resurfacing Parting did hilariously good prism colossus micro, almost styling on his opponent.

Oh yes that pvz where he was dodging viper yoinks?
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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15958 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-02-09 23:24:08
February 09 2025 23:14 GMT
#7
Maru vs lurkers, I've rewatched this probably 15 times and still have no idea how he won that engagement

t=16:05





Also this blew my mind back in the day





Not too forget PartinG turning the game into art

t=23:15

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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6329 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-02-10 03:50:02
February 10 2025 03:46 GMT
#8
A single moment? I'm having an extremely tough time coming up with anything other than THAT muta split. If we are talking something with a bit more "duration", MKP's showcasing of THE micro technique that defined the entire game's TvZ to this very day would be one. And whoever that invented Prism-Templar drop, was it PartinG or Trap?
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16704 Posts
February 10 2025 04:55 GMT
#9
i recall Tasteless saying SjoW was "Macgyver with Starcraft Units" during a big MLG run that he had. SO much cool stuff from that guy.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33388 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-02-10 09:21:20
February 10 2025 09:11 GMT
#10
Not the craziest micro, but one of my favorite "okay the other guy has no fucking chance" moments in SC2 was when Maru casually 1v1'd Stats' Adept with a Reaper while doing all of his early-game stuff.



Also not the 'craziest' micro, but herO's game one against DRG at IEM Singapore was my favorite 'Protoss is fucking bullshit' performance.



In more recent vintage, Clem's pick-up/drop micro against MaxPax to make Harstem eat his words was the best combination of funny + insane micro:

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Creager
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany1894 Posts
February 10 2025 11:09 GMT
#11
Back at the time it was just unmatched defense by Maru, this is from 2012:

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Luolis
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Finland7104 Posts
February 10 2025 11:17 GMT
#12
It may not be the most insane clip by today's standards, but this was the first sc2 series i watched live and this micro moment sold SC2 to me completely.

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Kelazhur
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil57 Posts
February 10 2025 11:30 GMT
#13
Loving this thread, keep em coming lads

Here's my contribution, I still think it's very cool considering the amount of time the game had been out back then

Progamer
darklycid
Profile Joined May 2014
3510 Posts
February 10 2025 12:12 GMT
#14
Not very micro intensive from todays perspective but back then it was unthinkable that gateway units win vs stim bio like that :D

Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1872 Posts
February 10 2025 15:39 GMT
#15
Everything from this game

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daskleinehotte
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany76 Posts
February 10 2025 15:51 GMT
#16
On February 10 2025 20:09 Creager wrote:
Back at the time it was just unmatched defense by Maru, this is from 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-_2kjicW6o


That's the one for me, too. I was so blown away by it, when I saw it live back then!
www.bunker-rush.de (German SC2 and eSports blog)
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15958 Posts
February 10 2025 16:49 GMT
#17
On February 11 2025 00:39 Mizenhauer wrote:
Everything from this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSv2P_9FW2U

I knew exactly which game this was just from seeing the thumbnail
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
bulldozer06701
Profile Joined July 2019
124 Posts
February 10 2025 17:34 GMT
#18
On February 11 2025 01:49 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2025 00:39 Mizenhauer wrote:
Everything from this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSv2P_9FW2U

I knew exactly which game this was just from seeing the thumbnail

My favourite Maru game.
Moonerz
Profile Joined March 2014
United States445 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-02-10 22:47:11
February 10 2025 20:53 GMT
#19
Going to take some time to find and clip some of these but definitely a few from the Maru dropping on Colossus days.

Also of course Byun has tons of great ones. Maybe not a super sick clip by modern standards either but Byun really was one of the first guys I remember making target firing banes a legit strat.

Maksim2010
Profile Joined July 2019
35 Posts
February 11 2025 01:15 GMT
#20
Don’t have the VOD. But leenocks muta split reaction vs fungal. It was a game vs Armani.
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