Certainly I don't think getting ADC to Masters would be much of a challenge for Pekin. I actually think trying to do what Tyler1 did, and doing either ADC or Jungle to Challenger might be interesting. Primarily because what seem to be Pekin's preferred ADC or Jungle champs aren't necessarily meta.
I would prefer this challenge to be continued to gm or callenger. If im correct he is best in mid and i think thats where I can learn most from him. And it would be very interesting to see how far he can climb.
I get that game 2 wasn't very flashy, but it was pretty cool seeing you creating advantages for your team by dueling Darius. Must have been a little frustrating, but you did what was needed.
Lots of people talking about wanting to see this series continue and I agree! Specifically because I’d be really interested in seeing how a player like yourself tackles high elo games against seasoned players. Videos like that (and all of yours tbh) have helped me a lot when it comes to understanding the meta and I’d love to see the mindset that goes into masters/gm /challenger games from your perspective >:)
@@thelatestartosrs Shrug the account was climbed using offmeta and odd picks. Calling it troll picking is disingenuous especially given the picks are selected specifically for having potential to actually do well Claiming that any picks that are made legitimately trying to win can be considered "troll picking" is half of what makes Riot Games' communities so abhorrently awful.
I can definitely understand not wanting to post games where it wasn't necessarily a great game statistic wise and although I am one of the many, I will usually watch whatever you put out because I just like how you do your content and the person you seem to be.
Watched both videos; second game was EPIC, with 5 barons and 2 elders taken. But I really liked your Game 1 explanation of laning into Warwick. It helped me understand why high deaths are acceptable on Warwick as long as you're getting something in return.
Both games felt pretty intense but honestly I loved it, especially the second one, it was so interesting to see how you could use your influence in the game in ways other than kills and actually seeing it work out. Definitely relies on teammates but when it works it works it seems.
I gotta say the match up was rough for you at the beginning, but seeing you overcome and explain how to get through the lane phase in that match-up was worth every second of it.
Man your videos are entertaining but also makes me want to play whatever champ it is your playing. I learn really well from watching others and watching you makes me feel like i know exactly how to play the champion and now I think I wanna start leaning Illaoi
right? I watched a lot of pekin while not playing league, and now that i'm back to playing aram I feel comfortable playing new champs just from having watched pekin play and talk about them.
Illaoi is really good with Phase Rush in a more AD centric build with either Sunderer or Triforce, because it means you can chase down your opponent after pulling the spirit from them, or run away and just reposition. Illaoi E should be maxed first imo though. Your E is your only way of really winning a fight, chasing, or even healing reliably, so you need it to be up more often. I can understand taking 3 levels of Q like Vel'Koz with his W to help clear the wave if you just continuously get pushed in/can't defend tentacles, and won't land E anyway though. I really wish they would make the locked position of her E reduced, because you're effectively stunned for a second when you use it, and a half a second longer if you actually hit. Just compensate with a damage or cooldown nerf, and it'll make the champ actually feel good to play. Also, that second game you should've 100% went Swifties. Janna's Glacial Augment, and Anivia ult are brutal without Swifties. Highly underrated item against teams with slows, but you have to make sure to take at least 1 tenacity rune.
I love your channel not just because of the positivity and skill, but because you also explain yourself and it's a great learning tool. I understand not wanting to post games that are bad games (we all have them), you go 1/20 or something, and nothing happens, but even if you have a game where you are not doing so hot but somehow still affect the game in a positive manner to help your team would be great to see. We all have bad games and me being a bronze player, I really struggle with what to do if I get behind and how to still be helpful. It's great to see stuff like that and being a mid main, it's very helpful watching your videos!
What a nail-biter. Such intense games, honestly this off meta climb has so many interesting moments. Seeing that inbred Darius drown in his own tears was hilarious as well. Keep up the good work
"No one would want to see me just farm and die" I beg to differ. Bausffs is my favorite league streamer. There's going 1/8, and there's being boring. They are not always the same.
As an Illaoi player I really appreciated these vdeos!! Long games or farmibg games are also enjouable as your insightful and wise commentory is the most enjoyable part of your vids for me. So I would really enjoy slow roll games like these ^^ Thanks for your hardwork and effort!!
I'm sad to see the series potentially end. Myself and the other 20 Urgot enjoyers are disappointed that we will not see Urgot mid or Jungle (or ADC and support for some). But, Mr Pekin, that just means I will have to respond on any other videos to see you play Urgot and slurp your lane opponent into that urgussy.
I'm always amazed at your champion knowledge! After this climb would you consider an A-Z challenge playing each champion in league? Genuinely great way for us to learn about each!
Did Pekin get first blood? First game: no, sadly First blood was by ally Tryndamere, around 1:39 Second game: nope, but he assisted with it First blood was by ally Rakan, around 26:36 Win Streak: 0 Highest streak: 3
Feel like I gotta set some rules First, First Blood counts as the first kill from a player in the game to some other player. No executes count as First Blood in this case Win Streak is reset to 0 after someone else takes First Blood. This means that if there's two games in a single video, and he doesn't get First Blood in the first, but does in the second, it counts as resetting and then getting a streak of 1 Assists in First Blood won't reset, but also won't count towards increasing the streak, which is why he stays in 0 after this vid
You need a game counter, just so we can see how long you've been counting. Highest streak of 3 across ten games suggests 3 is good performance, but highest streak of 3 across 100 games suggest 3 is actually harder to achieve than anything.
I actually like many builds on illaoi. Trinity works too, full ad also works. Duskblade is also rly fun. Heartsteel has the best lategame scaling. Heartsteel plus fimblewinter into titanic hurts.
That second game was amazing! Love watching long and difficult games like that. I also second what some other comments said and it’d be cool to see you play other roles
I think losses are not so entertaining but mabye if it happens you could point out the mistakes that were made. I still remember when u did the "coaching" or the roast from the darius it was a pretty good video in my opinion and sometimes i would love to get this done to me haha😂
That video was entertaining I'm glad you realesed it. And I just realized that there is a second game POG Edit: Damn that second game was really good, so close till the end
Maaaaan..... That lane was so hard with the constant heal from ww and then the rotations turning mid into ARAM Just imagine that on any other low elo loool
Just a side note, iceborn would help against Anivia since the passive gives you straight damage resist and I think it was either slow resist or tenacity, so even if the item stats don’t give mr the passive is still good against everyone
Hi Pekin! This road to master's has been extremely fun to watch, and I think it's been good for your channel overall. Would really hate to see it go, so how about a series where you try to reach Masters in other roles using off-meta picks? Should be fun!
51:15 I think by "so boring" he meant "it looks like Darius can't actually carry the rest of us, can we have the win anyway tho?" Loved the series, really hoping you decide to climb higher with it.
I really thought your team could have ended after the first time you got triple inhib. Here are the objective timestamps for everyone who's interested. 1st Baron: 44:01 2nd Baron: 50:29 3rd Baron: 56:45 (Enemy Darius: "I'm going to mass report you") Mountain Soul: 57:10 1:02:43 Yone's dying and Varus losing flash probably prevented your team from ending. 4th Baron: 103:31 1st Elder:103:45 Amazing fight 1:09:00-1:09:45 2nd Elder: 1:10:38 5th Baron: 1:11:13 1:13:00 "SHE HAS EGG!" Pekin's team manages to win the last fight at the nexus.
I think games where u don’t get an advantage early on are really interesting bc I think most of ur viewers aren’t challengers like urself and aren’t as skilled so it’s helpful to see how u get urself out of a bad situation
I keep forgetting to do this, rly hoping I can get smth in , I will post some absolutely degenerate builds for u to play! :D let's start with build 1: | ap jax: run (into squishies) electrocute, sudden impact, eyeball collector, relentless hunter or treasure hunter if u want to snowball a bit harder, triumph or presence of mind and coup de grace: build nashers into rocket belt, deathcap, lich bane or defensive with hourglass, then choice of shadowflame or voidstaff (into more tanky team) lethal tempo, triumph or presence, alacrity, last stand, free boots, biscuit with nashers into riftmaker, keep everything else similar, could go tank tho. Kindred mid| Lethal tempo, Triumph, alacrity, coup de grace or last stand, free boots biscuits, building trinity force into wits if ap mid, or brok if into less than 2 ap, bloodthirster, black cleaver, titanic. And lastly, Warwick mid| Lethal tempo, presence of mind, alacrity, last stand, second wind, revitalize. starting with tiamat for wave clear, into trinity, titanic, steraks gage, then situational tank items to finish off, and or bork is always a good option. Anyways, hope u see this and enjoy the builds if u try them :D
@PekinWoof the E keeps getting stronger as ur AD increases even though it's already out. The "calculation" is being done per dmg done by your character
When I chase with Illaoi, I E and ignore the spirit to chase them. If they run out of range they get slowed. Allowing me to land E again and chase them down.
Would love to see more off meta stuff regardless of how much longer this goes. Could even turn the series into something like "Off-Meta Masters" with you just using champs in unusual lanes. (Except maybe stuff like Yuumi since I can't see Yuumi working as anything but support at that level).
Hi Pekin, love the climb and everything you do ❤ my idea for once climbing is over is the off mega Masters Plateau - how long can U stay in Masters playing janky builds 😇 Ty for the amazing and consistent content!!
Hey when this is over, I think getting to Masters in a different role would be pretty sick.
Would be so cool to see a top to masters run
Certainly I don't think getting ADC to Masters would be much of a challenge for Pekin. I actually think trying to do what Tyler1 did, and doing either ADC or Jungle to Challenger might be interesting. Primarily because what seem to be Pekin's preferred ADC or Jungle champs aren't necessarily meta.
Considering he's been doing champs in different roles already, I'm not sure this is a valid request.
I would prefer this challenge to be continued to gm or callenger.
If im correct he is best in mid and i think thats where I can learn most from him.
And it would be very interesting to see how far he can climb.
We want this!
I get that game 2 wasn't very flashy, but it was pretty cool seeing you creating advantages for your team by dueling Darius. Must have been a little frustrating, but you did what was needed.
Lots of people talking about wanting to see this series continue and I agree! Specifically because I’d be really interested in seeing how a player like yourself tackles high elo games against seasoned players. Videos like that (and all of yours tbh) have helped me a lot when it comes to understanding the meta and I’d love to see the mindset that goes into masters/gm /challenger games from your perspective >:)
you mean keep troll picking but in masters?
@@thelatestartosrs Shrug the account was climbed using offmeta and odd picks. Calling it troll picking is disingenuous especially given the picks are selected specifically for having potential to actually do well
Claiming that any picks that are made legitimately trying to win can be considered "troll picking" is half of what makes Riot Games' communities so abhorrently awful.
I can definitely understand not wanting to post games where it wasn't necessarily a great game statistic wise and although I am one of the many, I will usually watch whatever you put out because I just like how you do your content and the person you seem to be.
seconded, i dont care about kda. we learn best from games that are a struggle
Watched both videos; second game was EPIC, with 5 barons and 2 elders taken. But I really liked your Game 1 explanation of laning into Warwick. It helped me understand why high deaths are acceptable on Warwick as long as you're getting something in return.
Both games felt pretty intense but honestly I loved it, especially the second one, it was so interesting to see how you could use your influence in the game in ways other than kills and actually seeing it work out. Definitely relies on teammates but when it works it works it seems.
Surely all the way to challenger Pekin. GOATED series
Tentacle slapping your way to Masters, way to go!
I gotta say the match up was rough for you at the beginning, but seeing you overcome and explain how to get through the lane phase in that match-up was worth every second of it.
This was my suggestion since the first episode of this series! The most fun off meta mid lane imo.
"Warwick feels really bad to play I probably wont ever play him mid" *Procedes to love warwick mid and pick him almost every game*
Love how in the first game you spoke about how "boring" games are not good for the algorithm, just to follow up with a BANGER second game
Man your videos are entertaining but also makes me want to play whatever champ it is your playing. I learn really well from watching others and watching you makes me feel like i know exactly how to play the champion and now I think I wanna start leaning Illaoi
As a former Illaoi main I don't recommend it. She's weak against dashes and CC which is now just about everyone in every game.
right? I watched a lot of pekin while not playing league, and now that i'm back to playing aram I feel comfortable playing new champs just from having watched pekin play and talk about them.
Dude that second game was amazing. Really fun to see you get right into the strategy on a slightly baackfoot.
That second game felt like an action movie lmao and the casual racism by Viego and Darius at the end too of course
Illaoi is really good with Phase Rush in a more AD centric build with either Sunderer or Triforce, because it means you can chase down your opponent after pulling the spirit from them, or run away and just reposition. Illaoi E should be maxed first imo though. Your E is your only way of really winning a fight, chasing, or even healing reliably, so you need it to be up more often. I can understand taking 3 levels of Q like Vel'Koz with his W to help clear the wave if you just continuously get pushed in/can't defend tentacles, and won't land E anyway though.
I really wish they would make the locked position of her E reduced, because you're effectively stunned for a second when you use it, and a half a second longer if you actually hit. Just compensate with a damage or cooldown nerf, and it'll make the champ actually feel good to play.
Also, that second game you should've 100% went Swifties. Janna's Glacial Augment, and Anivia ult are brutal without Swifties. Highly underrated item against teams with slows, but you have to make sure to take at least 1 tenacity rune.
Been stuck in silver for ten years now. You are insanely good this game. You make this look almost easy.
I love your channel not just because of the positivity and skill, but because you also explain yourself and it's a great learning tool. I understand not wanting to post games that are bad games (we all have them), you go 1/20 or something, and nothing happens, but even if you have a game where you are not doing so hot but somehow still affect the game in a positive manner to help your team would be great to see. We all have bad games and me being a bronze player, I really struggle with what to do if I get behind and how to still be helpful. It's great to see stuff like that and being a mid main, it's very helpful watching your videos!
Please continue this series! It’s awesome, and I look forward to it every day. Uploading two games at once is also much appreciated!
Please dont end the series. Make it an off-meta to gm series.
Clearly you should try Warwick mid soon for this series, after seeing how much work your opponent was able to do in that first game.
It’s just a cheese pick that tries to win by tilting the enemy laner. It can’t really do anything else.
What a nail-biter. Such intense games, honestly this off meta climb has so many interesting moments. Seeing that inbred Darius drown in his own tears was hilarious as well. Keep up the good work
9:20 when you ult on Illaoi you get an invulnerable frame where you cant be hit by the Rakan W.
8:42 Janna: "Die wolf!"
Warwick: "I'm sorry, did you say something?"
"Must've been the wind"
you should play first strike gwen mid for your next game!!
"No one would want to see me just farm and die"
I beg to differ. Bausffs is my favorite league streamer. There's going 1/8, and there's being boring. They are not always the same.
Sure hope so Mr. Pekin. Look forward to finding out
Please continue climb to grand masters or even challenger Pekin!
PEKIN IT'S ALMOST DONE AND NO KAYN MID TO BE SEEN I'M DYING 😭😭 (Great vid as always)
As an Illaoi player I really appreciated these vdeos!! Long games or farmibg games are also enjouable as your insightful and wise commentory is the most enjoyable part of your vids for me. So I would really enjoy slow roll games like these ^^ Thanks for your hardwork and effort!!
when i typr i cant see the words hence the spelling..
I'm sad to see the series potentially end. Myself and the other 20 Urgot enjoyers are disappointed that we will not see Urgot mid or Jungle (or ADC and support for some). But, Mr Pekin, that just means I will have to respond on any other videos to see you play Urgot and slurp your lane opponent into that urgussy.
URGOT MID CRACKED GANG VIOLENCE CHARACTER HE NEEDS TO PLAY HIM
I'm always amazed at your champion knowledge! After this climb would you consider an A-Z challenge playing each champion in league? Genuinely great way for us to learn about each!
Did Pekin get first blood?
First game: no, sadly
First blood was by ally Tryndamere, around 1:39
Second game: nope, but he assisted with it
First blood was by ally Rakan, around 26:36
Win Streak: 0
Highest streak: 3
Feel like I gotta set some rules
First, First Blood counts as the first kill from a player in the game to some other player. No executes count as First Blood in this case
Win Streak is reset to 0 after someone else takes First Blood. This means that if there's two games in a single video, and he doesn't get First Blood in the first, but does in the second, it counts as resetting and then getting a streak of 1
Assists in First Blood won't reset, but also won't count towards increasing the streak, which is why he stays in 0 after this vid
You need a game counter, just so we can see how long you've been counting. Highest streak of 3 across ten games suggests 3 is good performance, but highest streak of 3 across 100 games suggest 3 is actually harder to achieve than anything.
Never knew how utterly insane Warvick was, that first fight by your tower was crazy!
1 hour of pekin ill be eating well tonight
Feels good that you are impressed with me for watching the whole thing
Damn that was one of the most intense lane match ups i've seen in a while
the second game was specially fun to watch, ur teammates were very coordinated, and i lost count of how many barons u guys got XD
I actually like many builds on illaoi.
Trinity works too, full ad also works. Duskblade is also rly fun.
Heartsteel has the best lategame scaling.
Heartsteel plus fimblewinter into titanic hurts.
That second game was amazing! Love watching long and difficult games like that. I also second what some other comments said and it’d be cool to see you play other roles
I think losses are not so entertaining but mabye if it happens you could point out the mistakes that were made. I still remember when u did the "coaching" or the roast from the darius it was a pretty good video in my opinion and sometimes i would love to get this done to me haha😂
That video was entertaining I'm glad you realesed it. And I just realized that there is a second game POG
Edit: Damn that second game was really good, so close till the end
Let’s go Pekin! Off meta king!
Don't stop at masters! Keep going and see how high you can get. I love this series!
Thumbs up for winning lane as a melee into an anivia, its my worst nightmare
this has been your best series so far. Could you try to keep going to grand master?
51:48 ah so THAT'S why its called "test of spirit"! i get it now!
Maaaaan..... That lane was so hard with the constant heal from ww and then the rotations turning mid into ARAM
Just imagine that on any other low elo loool
"watching someone farm and die on repeat isnt something you wanna publish yk"
baus: sweats
1:09:11 that was an art.. I'm amazed
Just a side note, iceborn would help against Anivia since the passive gives you straight damage resist and I think it was either slow resist or tenacity, so even if the item stats don’t give mr the passive is still good against everyone
Ok nvm the passive gives dmg resist and the mythic passive gives health, tenacity, and slow resist
Ww vs Illaoi early game was nuts! super sparky
I will miss this series if it ends, it's been very enjoyable. Would love to see shotgun sona mid sometime with the new items.
I love this series. And id love to see one of these for jungle. You have been auto filled a few times and it is pretty damn entertaining!!!
49:53 "So, Darius has no flash btw" -> Darius has no teleport.
the first game was, to my eyes, the best early game of the off-meta series. The darius though, had the best late game ever.
22:39 was glorious lmaoo
I really enjoy ur full length video commentarys! Keep up the good work👌🏽✨
51:56 The mechanic where you hit illaoi to lower the spirit timer was actually removed
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What a video! Couldn't even watch it in one go before sleeping xD
21:10 bro just roasted whole baus career
Hi Pekin! This road to master's has been extremely fun to watch, and I think it's been good for your channel overall. Would really hate to see it go, so how about a series where you try to reach Masters in other roles using off-meta picks? Should be fun!
51:15 I think by "so boring" he meant "it looks like Darius can't actually carry the rest of us, can we have the win anyway tho?"
Loved the series, really hoping you decide to climb higher with it.
That was an insane second game. Well played
Another episode let's go!
I really thought your team could have ended after the first time you got triple inhib. Here are the objective timestamps for everyone who's interested.
1st Baron: 44:01
2nd Baron: 50:29
3rd Baron: 56:45 (Enemy Darius: "I'm going to mass report you")
Mountain Soul: 57:10
1:02:43 Yone's dying and Varus losing flash probably prevented your team from ending.
4th Baron: 103:31
1st Elder:103:45
Amazing fight 1:09:00-1:09:45
2nd Elder: 1:10:38
5th Baron: 1:11:13
1:13:00 "SHE HAS EGG!" Pekin's team manages to win the last fight at the nexus.
I think games where u don’t get an advantage early on are really interesting bc I think most of ur viewers aren’t challengers like urself and aren’t as skilled so it’s helpful to see how u get urself out of a bad situation
1 Hr 15 Min, a better movie than the last Star Wars trilogy.
Would love to see rell mid or jungle, maybe build full ap if it feels viable
The viego was loosing his mind and it was hilarious to watch
That 2nd game was so intense. So many barons lol and you're team still couldn't capitalize on the pushes fully. Solo queue is so frustrating lol.
"People don't want to watch someone die and farm on repeat" my man, let me tell you about the bausff
try to go higher loving this series
maybe find a few picks and stick to em when it gets tough
thanks for uploading it regardless of you thinking it wasnt a good game
Pekinbias Woofate isn't real, he can't hurt you
Pekinbias Woofate
Pretty sure they removed the interaction where fighting Illaoi reduces the spirit duration. You just have to let it time out now.
THE RAKANS NAME LMAOOOOO PEKINS REACTION
I keep forgetting to do this, rly hoping I can get smth in , I will post some absolutely degenerate builds for u to play! :D let's start with build 1: | ap jax: run (into squishies) electrocute, sudden impact, eyeball collector, relentless hunter or treasure hunter if u want to snowball a bit harder, triumph or presence of mind and coup de grace: build nashers into rocket belt, deathcap, lich bane or defensive with hourglass, then choice of shadowflame or voidstaff (into more tanky team) lethal tempo, triumph or presence, alacrity, last stand, free boots, biscuit with nashers into riftmaker, keep everything else similar, could go tank tho. Kindred mid| Lethal tempo, Triumph, alacrity, coup de grace or last stand, free boots biscuits, building trinity force into wits if ap mid, or brok if into less than 2 ap, bloodthirster, black cleaver, titanic. And lastly, Warwick mid| Lethal tempo, presence of mind, alacrity, last stand, second wind, revitalize. starting with tiamat for wave clear, into trinity, titanic, steraks gage, then situational tank items to finish off, and or bork is always a good option. Anyways, hope u see this and enjoy the builds if u try them :D
I would love to see pekin ranking to master on another server tbh, but those ping was... Yah
@PekinWoof the E keeps getting stronger as ur AD increases even though it's already out. The "calculation" is being done per dmg done by your character
hahaha when you brought up the poppy name I lost my mind
This is what we want pekin
When I chase with Illaoi, I E and ignore the spirit to chase them. If they run out of range they get slowed. Allowing me to land E again and chase them down.
Would love to see more off meta stuff regardless of how much longer this goes. Could even turn the series into something like "Off-Meta Masters" with you just using champs in unusual lanes. (Except maybe stuff like Yuumi since I can't see Yuumi working as anything but support at that level).
a 50 minute illaoi game is always good
I am all for continuing this series or maybe trying something like top lane would be really interesting.
Made it through the end of the video, what a big one hahaha, loving the series so far, sad its almost over, make it more often, much love
over an hour of a video !!!!
this is so awesome
It was interesting to see how you played from behind.
That was an unfortunate teleport. 😂
That team fight was insane and early
congrats on reaching your masters promo off meta ! 🎉
i watch these videos to learn how to play against these champs so thank you for that lol
that second gmae was so crazy and fun to watch
Noooo! This series can't end! Its soooo fun!
Over an hour of pekinwoof lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
by the way, youre supposed to max e on illaoi, the reflect damage goes CRAZY all the way so you can kill a squishy with one e probably
Hi Pekin, love the climb and everything you do ❤ my idea for once climbing is over is the off mega Masters Plateau - how long can U stay in Masters playing janky builds 😇 Ty for the amazing and consistent content!!
that second game was so sick yooo
That last game was nuts phew