Plot twist: These are all actually games that were pre-recorded by Froolicity and Pekin's secretly been playing Fortnite while he streams. What's impressive about this is how he still manages to sync up his commentary to the gameplay.
there is an indicator if the ult will execute, the bar on their health shows when anything will execute and the symbol above their head turns from yellow to orange when her ult will execute
i can be wrong but im pretty sure he was talking abt how you can execute someone even if the symbol is still yellow, the threshold seems a bit highter than it shows
@starniyc threshold is actually represented on two scales, one for basic abilities and auto’s, and one for the ultimate. Like pyke’s ult, an indicator will display on the health bar showing the execute threshold for abilities and auto’s, while the ultimate will present as a color transformation of the overhead stacks on the enemy champ
@@isaiahjoyce4783That’s what they mean, sometimes the ultimate color symbol above their heads shows up yellow and they’re still killable, even though usually it changes to orange when the target will “die” from using ult. doesnt seem to factor in some stats.
13:20 IMO Viktor is favored vs Mel in 1v1 His E is easier to land can't miss and does 100% damage every time, Mel Q can be dodged to do only 3/4 or 1/2 damage consistently because of its "over time" damage. The lane seemed "easy" because you got a double gank with flash + kill into a Lost Chapter in first back.
You are absolutely right about him getting ganks and lost chapter. But she outranges Viktor and can harass with 2 spells while threatening a counter with her W. Her Q cd is also far lower and harass is too much. And all she has to do is get him low and her ult is 100% guaranteed execute. Viktor has to move it around after cast.
The biggest issue with cosmic to me is in terms of defense if you get caught which will still happen I'd rather focus on my positioning when either way you still just die, offensively it feels so rare that the movement speed is worth the loss of damage.
you don't seem to know how easily you can delete the enemy team if you reflect even a little bit of miss fortune's ult, but you can, so when they make the mistake of ulting you, send it back
I'm guessing it's because of one of the word's main definitions: "action or intervention producing a particular effect." So in context, the "particular effect" is 1v9 hard carrying when your team is behind and the way he describes champions in terms of "having a lot of" or "not having much" agency is a natural by-product of the above definition. He wants to say "this champion is not good at carrying 1v9 if I am fed and the rest of my team is not", but why say that when he also has the option of condensing it to "this champ has high/low agency"? They essentially mean the same thing.
He doesn't really have one. He's made the point on stream in the past that he's not really into watching people stream games as he'd rather play them. He has also said that he goes into the chat of some of his friends when they are streaming, but that's not so much to watch them playing as it is to type something like "hi" and then not say anything else because he's got 9 other tabs open to other chats that he's doing the exact same thing in. God bless him 😂
I don't think she is "OP", she does her strong points very well, like small trades without repercussion, heavy skillshot matchups, and people that absolutely REFUSE to play into mel's style: The second she faces someone that dodges her E, and all ins her on repeat, shes useless (jayce, ambessa, sylas, akali are great examples) the other way she doesn't win is if she can't poke effectively, because the enemy champ just ignores it (Kassadin, Galio, tanks in general). I like to compare her to syndra, you poke with random qs, and whenever they are on a threshold, you try and pick them with e (Q+E on syndra's case) and ults for massive burst. She needs the exp advantage to squeeze as much dmg as possible, and behind she does nothing, just like syndra This champ CANNOT play into heavy tank comps, like ornn, galio, naut. She has clear strong points, and clear weaknesses. I truly don't get why she has a 70% ban rate
Don't compare greatly designed champion like syndra to this trash Her kit is what a control mage should be She has medium range abilities with a certain longer range playpattern through e stun If you stun someone with e from a long range there is a lot of very important details 1.can't peel for yourself since your only safety is on CD 2. when you get into your ultimate range stun is either expired or about to 3. If it isn't lategame or you are overfed you won't likely oneshot someone 1v1 without landing everything (at least not until ult execution upgrade) Everything above forces you to play in a lot more nuanced way than this spamming abomination You gotta take risks sometimes,step up to hit your skills without stun etc All Mel does is spams her shit of cd in hopes of getting enough stacks so she can instakill you from literally screen away. And one more thing, syndra has skillshots - Mel doesn't Q is unmissable because even if you hit someone with just 1 proc it's still a passive proc so you refresh it on a target, E is just there for unforseen stuff most of the time A lot of ppl still don't understand what she is - malzahar/trynda/heimer mid A champion that forces you to play into a fucking boring lane when she outranges you, you gotta take all fucking risks in the world to beat her dodging her shit, dealing with her potential W reflect and gank setup with the jungler I'm not even gonna talk about autofarming from execute, this is disgusting Even malzahars waveclear is gated by crabs and his need to be in mid range to cast e
It’s just the reflect And I’d say it’s not actually that busted but the reflect just frustrates people to the point they just don’t wanna deal with it Same thing with Yasuo windwall. People get so frustrated to have their powerful attacks be nullified With Mel it’s even worse cuz instead of your spell fizzling, it comes right back at you.
The ban rate is because of the reflect, which people dont know how to deal with + its hard atm for people to calculate its actual like, impact in a game versus its potential in general. Also, cuz Arcane/popular. But her win rate has been stable around 49-50 for a while now the nerfs really did their job for the most part.
@@KarlKraft888well said brother. This abomination requires no skill whatsoever and nullifies most champions. Even if it’s not a projectile she can use w to negate the most damaging ability on someone’s combo.
Stuff that nerd in his locker! Wow. Some days while playing you can walk between rain drops. Other days can not catch a break. I once told my mother good luck during yoir softball game. Her reply was..... I dont need your good luck. I make my own luck. Meaning she is super confident in her abilities because she has put in the work and believes that at the end of the day she was the best player on that field. Luck was going to have nothing to do with the outcome.
19:35 again dude, you need to pay attention to ur R icon in situation like these, when you can kill somebody with your R the icon lights up a bit and if you notice there you had like 0.5 s to confirm the kill. Obviously it wasn't that huge of a deal here but imagine it was a 1k shutdown and you just miss it for free
Pekin actually commented that he would use ult there, the only reason he didn’t was because it was still on a few sec of CD and he figured the stacks would fall off before it came back. Actually, the ulti does have a cast time which might be long enough that the stacks would fall off and fail to secure the kill even if he spammed R there
@@TR1ckY_TVI reckon she’s good on adc! Haven’t checked stats but CC from a support would let her stack faster, get E root off more reliably and land her full Q. Chance for some double kills with ult too maybe
tear into liandrys, rylais, bloodletters is just too nice on mel. Her Q is so abusable for certain items, and 1000 bonus health goes a long way, especially when you're ahead/even. The fact people were crying about her 35cd 1 second duration W kinda of shows that most of leagues community don't really understand what makes a champion strong. ITs like complaining about fioras W (repost) if it had double the cd meanwhile shes tap dancing around your body with Q doing huge true damage, criting, healing and slowing you like every 2 seconds lol. If I could remove mels W from her kit just to get 2 seconds removed off her Q or E cds in the early/mid game, i'd do it in a heart beat.
Ah yes the champ with a 72% ban rate all ranks, I wonder why she is one of the highest ever banned champs hmm. Love how they add a character into the game that no one at all wants to play with and against.
I genuinely don't get why people are hating on this new champ lol. Her w is actually pretty damn easy to play around which shows with her win rate being really high the lower elo you go and getting to be pretty bad in diamond+. She's not that annoying in terms of mobility, all she has is a very minor speedup, she doesn't deal insane burst damage and all her spells are really not that hard to dodge. Maybe they could make her e a little more obvious for which part is the root vs the slow but that's about it. I find her pretty fun to play as but I definitely notice what pekin says about her lack of agency, it's hard to make plays without your team around.
@@cccfudgewell they are And they didn't do this before Not with this magnitude at least So it gotta tell you something about the design, or you think 70% are JUST OVERREACTING a bit I've seen rework gangplanks build Trinity into into 4 infinity edges in a row with barrels that reduced armor by 60% and critted for almost 3k dmg (and he had 6 barrels in a stash) He was way more broken than Ksantes daughter So logical question is why? Maybe because her kit is actually just that annoying for everyone to deal with?
@cccfudge people don't want to learn how to play against her. Also i keep seeing people forget her W exists especially lux players, granted lux players don't have much going on in there so that's probably why lol😊
Yone Yasuo Zed ..etc etc... Riven ..etc etc... Tryndamere Teemo Shaco Master Yi Lee Sin Mordekaiser Irelia Point is, this is nothing new. Since I started playing in beta, there have always been champions that were considered to be omens of League's downfall. Champions that would int heavily on your team but go 37/0 on the enemy team and were just cancer to lane or play against. Most of those champs are still pretty cringe to play with or against when you think about it. High risk high reward snowballers. That's just how they be, and Mel currently sort of fits in with them thanks to a combination of an average lack of player familiarity with the champion's limits, and her potential to snowball off an early lead owing to her overtuned stats. I figure. I'll admit I've verified none of what I just said, but it sounds logical enough that it might be true idk
I dislike push button dmg mixed with an execute... It's just not fun to play against and I don't think it's good for the game. That's my opinion though. They'll nerf her again I think and maybe even rework her because I can't see this being something sustainable even if her win rate is balanced.
She seems overtuned in the least interesting way. As you said, very little potential to playmake for your team. She's a beatstick and league doesnt really need more of those.
It's not fun on either side It's literally reskin lux 2025 but with even less skill expression This is the single most disappointing champion release I've seen in a long time
Well I like lux and I also like Mel .maybe the champion isn't for you but you should stop crying, it is pathetic considering some people do enjoy her @@KarlKraft888
Malignance was never good on mel, just dont make sense, since her ult is a execute u dont get any benefits from this item instead of the ultimate haste.
N64 shirt, Mario poster... Are you even a League player? Cosplay Mel next time you play her, thanks.
Pekin should just stream kirby air ride at this point seeing as he's become a Nintendo content creator.
Plot twist: These are all actually games that were pre-recorded by Froolicity and Pekin's secretly been playing Fortnite while he streams.
What's impressive about this is how he still manages to sync up his commentary to the gameplay.
there is an indicator if the ult will execute, the bar on their health shows when anything will execute and the symbol above their head turns from yellow to orange when her ult will execute
Was just about to comment this hahaha
i can be wrong but im pretty sure he was talking abt how you can execute someone even if the symbol is still yellow, the threshold seems a bit highter than it shows
@@starniyc Could be that it doesn't factor in certain items, or the stacks take a moment to update.
@starniyc threshold is actually represented on two scales, one for basic abilities and auto’s, and one for the ultimate. Like pyke’s ult, an indicator will display on the health bar showing the execute threshold for abilities and auto’s, while the ultimate will present as a color transformation of the overhead stacks on the enemy champ
@@isaiahjoyce4783That’s what they mean, sometimes the ultimate color symbol above their heads shows up yellow and they’re still killable, even though usually it changes to orange when the target will “die” from using ult. doesnt seem to factor in some stats.
Hope your arm is doing better Mr. Woof!
honestly been loving the mel vids!! rlly fun to watch you play her and limit test since shes new
13:20 IMO Viktor is favored vs Mel in 1v1
His E is easier to land can't miss and does 100% damage every time, Mel Q can be dodged to do only 3/4 or 1/2 damage consistently because of its "over time" damage.
The lane seemed "easy" because you got a double gank with flash + kill into a Lost Chapter in first back.
You are absolutely right about him getting ganks and lost chapter. But she outranges Viktor and can harass with 2 spells while threatening a counter with her W. Her Q cd is also far lower and harass is too much. And all she has to do is get him low and her ult is 100% guaranteed execute. Viktor has to move it around after cast.
Hope the arms better also 1h Mel gameplay? Im blessed
24:00 happens to me every day, important dragon is about to spawn and a dlpshlt is dying somewhere far up for a bunch of scraps.
26:46 you can smite during Kayn R I used it many times for easy steals
Yeah same with Yi Q
The biggest issue with cosmic to me is in terms of defense if you get caught which will still happen I'd rather focus on my positioning when either way you still just die, offensively it feels so rare that the movement speed is worth the loss of damage.
i think those games went MEL... right?
16:40 yea it make sense
You arnt dealing the last hit to trigger the excute deathdance deal the last hit thus not triggering it
you don't seem to know how easily you can delete the enemy team if you reflect even a little bit of miss fortune's ult, but you can, so when they make the mistake of ulting you, send it back
Kayne can smite when he's in somebody
That is a rad shirt Pekin, I dig it ❤
FEAR THE FANGS, RESPECT THE SKILL!
Where did you get the word agency from?
I'm guessing it's because of one of the word's main definitions:
"action or intervention producing a particular effect."
So in context, the "particular effect" is 1v9 hard carrying when your team is behind and the way he describes champions in terms of "having a lot of" or "not having much" agency is a natural by-product of the above definition. He wants to say "this champion is not good at carrying 1v9 if I am fed and the rest of my team is not", but why say that when he also has the option of condensing it to "this champ has high/low agency"? They essentially mean the same thing.
Who does pekinwoof watch on RUclips? Because you’re “my” RUclipsr just curious as to who yours is
He doesn't really have one. He's made the point on stream in the past that he's not really into watching people stream games as he'd rather play them. He has also said that he goes into the chat of some of his friends when they are streaming, but that's not so much to watch them playing as it is to type something like "hi" and then not say anything else because he's got 9 other tabs open to other chats that he's doing the exact same thing in. God bless him 😂
I rarely watch RUclips but if I do I normally watch old-school runescape like Settled
Not you and Quantum posting the same video 😂
Did she get any buffs since the last mel vid?
I wonder how it would go if they took the execute off of the Minions?
"You can't smite while inside somebody" 😂
I don't think she is "OP", she does her strong points very well, like small trades without repercussion, heavy skillshot matchups, and people that absolutely REFUSE to play into mel's style:
The second she faces someone that dodges her E, and all ins her on repeat, shes useless (jayce, ambessa, sylas, akali are great examples) the other way she doesn't win is if she can't poke effectively, because the enemy champ just ignores it (Kassadin, Galio, tanks in general).
I like to compare her to syndra, you poke with random qs, and whenever they are on a threshold, you try and pick them with e (Q+E on syndra's case) and ults for massive burst. She needs the exp advantage to squeeze as much dmg as possible, and behind she does nothing, just like syndra
This champ CANNOT play into heavy tank comps, like ornn, galio, naut.
She has clear strong points, and clear weaknesses.
I truly don't get why she has a 70% ban rate
Don't compare greatly designed champion like syndra to this trash
Her kit is what a control mage should be
She has medium range abilities with a certain longer range playpattern through e stun
If you stun someone with e from a long range there is a lot of very important details
1.can't peel for yourself since your only safety is on CD
2. when you get into your ultimate range stun is either expired or about to
3. If it isn't lategame or you are overfed you won't likely oneshot someone 1v1 without landing everything (at least not until ult execution upgrade)
Everything above forces you to play in a lot more nuanced way than this spamming abomination
You gotta take risks sometimes,step up to hit your skills without stun etc
All Mel does is spams her shit of cd in hopes of getting enough stacks so she can instakill you from literally screen away.
And one more thing, syndra has skillshots - Mel doesn't
Q is unmissable because even if you hit someone with just 1 proc it's still a passive proc so you refresh it on a target, E is just there for unforseen stuff most of the time
A lot of ppl still don't understand what she is - malzahar/trynda/heimer mid
A champion that forces you to play into a fucking boring lane when she outranges you, you gotta take all fucking risks in the world to beat her dodging her shit, dealing with her potential W reflect and gank setup with the jungler
I'm not even gonna talk about autofarming from execute, this is disgusting
Even malzahars waveclear is gated by crabs and his need to be in mid range to cast e
I see someone upset the sybdra fan boy lol like calm down dude mel is fine @KarlKraft888
It’s just the reflect
And I’d say it’s not actually that busted but the reflect just frustrates people to the point they just don’t wanna deal with it
Same thing with Yasuo windwall. People get so frustrated to have their powerful attacks be nullified
With Mel it’s even worse cuz instead of your spell fizzling, it comes right back at you.
The ban rate is because of the reflect, which people dont know how to deal with + its hard atm for people to calculate its actual like, impact in a game versus its potential in general.
Also, cuz Arcane/popular. But her win rate has been stable around 49-50 for a while now the nerfs really did their job for the most part.
@@KarlKraft888well said brother. This abomination requires no skill whatsoever and nullifies most champions. Even if it’s not a projectile she can use w to negate the most damaging ability on someone’s combo.
Stuff that nerd in his locker! Wow. Some days while playing you can walk between rain drops. Other days can not catch a break. I once told my mother good luck during yoir softball game. Her reply was.....
I dont need your good luck. I make my own luck.
Meaning she is super confident in her abilities because she has put in the work and believes that at the end of the day she was the best player on that field. Luck was going to have nothing to do with the outcome.
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pecan wolf is my favourite nintendo streamer
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19:35 again dude, you need to pay attention to ur R icon in situation like these, when you can kill somebody with your R the icon lights up a bit and if you notice there you had like 0.5 s to confirm the kill. Obviously it wasn't that huge of a deal here but imagine it was a 1k shutdown and you just miss it for free
I mean yeah but it is literally half a second and there’s a lot going on, it’s very easy to miss even if he’s actively checking it
Pekin actually commented that he would use ult there, the only reason he didn’t was because it was still on a few sec of CD and he figured the stacks would fall off before it came back. Actually, the ulti does have a cast time which might be long enough that the stacks would fall off and fail to secure the kill even if he spammed R there
I mean i play her on mid, top, adc , jungle and support. And i never seen any char feel so good on every lane
I'm calling cap.
I'm calling ginormous cap on jungle!
And big cap on adc...
Small cap on top also :)
@@TR1ckY_TVI reckon she’s good on adc! Haven’t checked stats but CC from a support would let her stack faster, get E root off more reliably and land her full Q. Chance for some double kills with ult too maybe
Pekin how will this affect Luka’s legacy
s tier comment
Is it just me or does Mel remind anyone else of yasuo? Bad if she's on your team, bad if she's on the enemy team... LOL
6:47 +1
permaban by me in all my lobbys and accounts in all elos
dang got here before views
tear into liandrys, rylais, bloodletters is just too nice on mel. Her Q is so abusable for certain items, and 1000 bonus health goes a long way, especially when you're ahead/even. The fact people were crying about her 35cd 1 second duration W kinda of shows that most of leagues community don't really understand what makes a champion strong. ITs like complaining about fioras W (repost) if it had double the cd meanwhile shes tap dancing around your body with Q doing huge true damage, criting, healing and slowing you like every 2 seconds lol.
If I could remove mels W from her kit just to get 2 seconds removed off her Q or E cds in the early/mid game, i'd do it in a heart beat.
What does X9 mean. I get that it’s like report but why X9
Because they want everyone to report the same guy. So they'd get 9 reports (not 10 because they can't report themselves obv lol)
@ thanks
19:32 ngl this one hurts 😭...
Axiom Karma when? :v
Even for click bait xD what the new, obviously broken champ is broken. Who'd have thought xD
Ah yes the champ with a 72% ban rate all ranks, I wonder why she is one of the highest ever banned champs hmm. Love how they add a character into the game that no one at all wants to play with and against.
With 10% pick rate clearly shows that people want to play with her, but she's getting banned
I genuinely don't get why people are hating on this new champ lol. Her w is actually pretty damn easy to play around which shows with her win rate being really high the lower elo you go and getting to be pretty bad in diamond+. She's not that annoying in terms of mobility, all she has is a very minor speedup, she doesn't deal insane burst damage and all her spells are really not that hard to dodge. Maybe they could make her e a little more obvious for which part is the root vs the slow but that's about it. I find her pretty fun to play as but I definitely notice what pekin says about her lack of agency, it's hard to make plays without your team around.
@@cccfudgewell they are
And they didn't do this before
Not with this magnitude at least
So it gotta tell you something about the design, or you think 70% are JUST OVERREACTING a bit
I've seen rework gangplanks build Trinity into into 4 infinity edges in a row with barrels that reduced armor by 60% and critted for almost 3k dmg (and he had 6 barrels in a stash)
He was way more broken than Ksantes daughter
So logical question is why?
Maybe because her kit is actually just that annoying for everyone to deal with?
@cccfudge people don't want to learn how to play against her. Also i keep seeing people forget her W exists especially lux players, granted lux players don't have much going on in there so that's probably why lol😊
Yone
Yasuo
Zed
..etc etc...
Riven
..etc etc...
Tryndamere
Teemo
Shaco
Master Yi
Lee Sin
Mordekaiser
Irelia
Point is, this is nothing new. Since I started playing in beta, there have always been champions that were considered to be omens of League's downfall. Champions that would int heavily on your team but go 37/0 on the enemy team and were just cancer to lane or play against. Most of those champs are still pretty cringe to play with or against when you think about it. High risk high reward snowballers. That's just how they be, and Mel currently sort of fits in with them thanks to a combination of an average lack of player familiarity with the champion's limits, and her potential to snowball off an early lead owing to her overtuned stats.
I figure. I'll admit I've verified none of what I just said, but it sounds logical enough that it might be true idk
Under 500 squad
ravenous riven? deathsdance tear kayn? lucid rush viktor? what is happening
You living under a rock...
Combo 99 of catching pekin early
Streak 3
I dislike push button dmg mixed with an execute... It's just not fun to play against and I don't think it's good for the game. That's my opinion though. They'll nerf her again I think and maybe even rework her because I can't see this being something sustainable even if her win rate is balanced.
She seems overtuned in the least interesting way. As you said, very little potential to playmake for your team. She's a beatstick and league doesnt really need more of those.
this character backhands veigar so hard. not fun, or very fun depending on which side youre on
It's not fun on either side
It's literally reskin lux 2025 but with even less skill expression
This is the single most disappointing champion release I've seen in a long time
Well I like lux and I also like Mel .maybe the champion isn't for you but you should stop crying, it is pathetic considering some people do enjoy her @@KarlKraft888
@KarlKraft888 bruh lux hardly has any skill expression. Mel is definitely harder than her so maybe stop hitting the copium so hard lol
Day 103 of asking pekin to cosplay Gwen
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Terrible champion design. :( ty for video pekin
Malignance was never good on mel, just dont make sense, since her ult is a execute u dont get any benefits from this item instead of the ultimate haste.