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Craziest Micro Moments Of All Time? - Page 2

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RPR_Tempest
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Australia7798 Posts
February 11 2025 01:28 GMT
#21
In terms of skillful micro it's not the greatest, but in terms of absolute sweat-inducing intensity nothing has ever topped this.

Soundwave, Zerg player from Canberra, Australia. @SoundwaveSC
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
February 11 2025 01:45 GMT
#22
I saw a recent clip where Clem reflex dodged a disruptor coming out of the fog of war into a clump of bio and it didn’t hit a single unit.

That was pretty insane and if anyone can recall where it was from definitely worth a post!

A lot of Maru clips and for good reason. I think what sets his highlight reel apart from many is he’s not merely excelling at a level higher than his peers, he’s doing stuff other people aren’t even attempting.

No vikings versus colossus, killing an adept with a single reaper, stuff like that really stands out. And it gets harder and harder to stand out over time.

Not a single moment, perhaps not as clean as some have shown since, but man HerO’s micro in this for multiple minutes straight, in one of my all-time favourite bonkers games. My ‘clip’ as it were. Also I do think HerO of the Liquid variety was a hell of a talent and pretty underrated these days, and Jaedong’s SC2 career was actually pretty dang good! If I was to be unkind perhaps ‘Jaekong’ should have been his nick by the end.

'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
FataLe
Profile Joined November 2010
New Zealand4520 Posts
February 11 2025 07:54 GMT
#23
My first jaw on the floor moment was Tester holding a late scout, proxy 2 gate with 1 gate.
hi. big fan.
baldgye
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1100 Posts
February 11 2025 08:50 GMT
#24
On February 11 2025 10:28 RPR_Tempest wrote:
In terms of skillful micro it's not the greatest, but in terms of absolute sweat-inducing intensity nothing has ever topped this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFllSVjK5hY


What a crazy game haha I had totally forgotten this so assumed Naniwa had won it after he held his main... then cut to him sending stalkers across the map before taking out the proxy pylon lmao like "ok so its one of these games"
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
February 11 2025 08:59 GMT
#25
On February 11 2025 10:28 RPR_Tempest wrote:
In terms of skillful micro it's not the greatest, but in terms of absolute sweat-inducing intensity nothing has ever topped this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFllSVjK5hY

Absolute classic that one!
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1908 Posts
February 11 2025 14:55 GMT
#26
On February 11 2025 05:53 Moonerz wrote:
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.



The reason he was the first person to do so was because sniping slow banes off creep wasn't a thing in wol/hots. It was only in Lotv that the tech timings for Z and T lined up to allow this interaction.
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CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1849 Posts
February 11 2025 15:52 GMT
#27
nowadays dont players use rapid fire to snipe banelings?
Remember that we all come from a place of passion!!
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
February 11 2025 16:56 GMT
#28
On February 12 2025 00:52 CicadaSC wrote:
nowadays dont players use rapid fire to snipe banelings?

Nah it’s not really advantageous for that, manual a-clicks or right clicks there.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
matju
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland5 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-02-11 17:16:22
February 11 2025 17:15 GMT
#29
This is also nice moment in foreign history. Nerchio hatchery save:

ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3463 Posts
February 16 2025 00:27 GMT
#30
On February 10 2025 05:28 ScrappyRabbit wrote:
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.

Mb Maru did that too, but the thing he would always do is neglect ghosts and simoly outpace, outmicro storm. I rly have to thank maru for all the free ladder points I acrued from taking adv. Of terrans thinking they can play like maru and simply chosen to eat my storms that I would aways get early on, because they play so one dimensionally.
SC2 Archon needs "Terrible, terrible damage" as one of it's quotes.
Rotrot
Profile Joined February 2025
2 Posts
February 19 2025 17:48 GMT
#31
This whole game was great but the ending was icing on the cake.

fr33xta
Profile Joined July 2024
10 Posts
February 22 2025 16:35 GMT
#32
On February 10 2025 20:30 Kelazhur wrote:
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


that's so sick
Parser
Profile Joined March 2011
Italy87 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-04 14:11:43
March 04 2025 14:10 GMT
#33
This marines split made me jump on my chair:
BronzeKnee
Profile Joined March 2011
United States5219 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-08 22:10:26
March 08 2025 22:08 GMT
#34
BitbyBitPrime's baneling bomb dodge

fastr
Profile Joined February 2011
France902 Posts
September 30 2025 12:43 GMT
#35
Yet another Maru highlight. Perhaps not his craziest micro, but the fact that it was against Jaedong at Blizzcon with the Plott brothers casting makes it very special to me

Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1908 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-09-30 15:49:10
September 30 2025 13:14 GMT
#36


sOs' hold in this game was incredible and a really good illustration of why sOs was such a good player during hots. His decision making is incredible from start to finish and his micro was top notch. Unfortunately for sOs, the game trended away from these sorts of interactions. Still, it's a real joy to go back and watch him at his peak.
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Moonerz
Profile Joined March 2014
United States459 Posts
September 30 2025 17:36 GMT
#37
The hold at 3:20 is so clean. Great control and decision making by Stats.

Moonerz
Profile Joined March 2014
United States459 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-09-30 18:00:29
September 30 2025 17:51 GMT
#38
On September 30 2025 22:14 Mizenhauer wrote:
https://youtu.be/lzkYYFNA358?t=5682

sOs' hold in this game was incredible and a really good illustration of why sOs was such a good player during hots. His decision making is incredible from start to finish and his micro was top notch. Unfortunately for sOs, the game trended away from these sorts of interactions. Still, it's a real joy to go back and watch him at his peak.


Insane hold felt like he was definitely gonna lose a few times there.
SHODAN
Profile Joined November 2011
United Kingdom1144 Posts
September 30 2025 19:09 GMT
#39
On February 23 2025 01:35 fr33xta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 10 2025 20:30 Kelazhur wrote:
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGJP0BgvUPA

that's so sick


Happy was and still is a god gamer
Kitai
Profile Joined June 2012
United States880 Posts
November 11 2025 00:53 GMT
#40
I don't have any links to VODs right now, but I remember TaeJa being the first pro terran to really trademark baneling sniping with marines, and he also had some really flashy medevac/ marauder juggling vs stalkers, which were some of the reasons he was my favorite player to watch. Clem is really the only Terran I can think of that has since captured the same magic.
"You know, I don't care if soO got 100 second places in a row. Anyone who doesn't think that he's going to win blizzcon watching this series is a fool" - Artosis, Blizzcon 2014 soO vs TaeJa
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