Imagine how cool it would have been if Smolder evolves based on the amount of stacks he has. Like getting bigger and maybe alternate the abilities a little more.
i imagined something roughtly in the direction like syvanas ult form when they said its a dragon champ. And your idea would work pretty good with that i think.. well, while i dont like the design he has now at least his kit is interesting. although the execute seems op but they can nerf that
Riot showed a texture fix for his face and said they're changing the spash art, but its not on PBE and it might not be for a bit. Unless u meant the fix, then yeah bro is cute.
Naw man the face is so human still 😭 But anyways the model posture definitely feels really nice, I’m taking reference of it in terms of poses and the flows
19:52 It looks like the execute percentage goes up infinitely. Vandiril’s video showed the percentage as 143% at 5000 passive stacks. That’s if an enemy is under 143% HP. LOLZ
6:54 "pretty... low cooldown on mom... right?" LMFAO yo momma jokes now have a new layer yo momma's cooldown so big it gives Karthus time to sing a full Dream Theater album before his ult goes off
Id love to see you build him ap and try to see if his damage focus shifts more towards aoe poke with his w, and maybe nashors on hit on his e or soemthing. Ap ratios seem decent, could definitely be fun!
@@InvaderZae. I was thinking ap cdr with nashors to just max out his w AOE damage in team fights and ulti AOE, and then cdr makes his e lower cd as well, so if people try to jump on you you can reposition and do a lot of damage at the same time. I think burst pen with shadowflame stormsurge would be bad, unless giga fed. But maybe like the ultimate cdr item, cosmic, seraphs, nashors and cdr boots or something could be good. Play for poke AOE damage and utility while being very hard to pin down.
Also Q only has a 15% ap scaling. So you would still need some AD to have a good harass tool. What interesting could be is riftmaker. And probably shadowflame with the crit.
I didn’t expect q to be point and click ngl. And imo naviri without any AS feels kinda bad maybe ie is better. Also does he get stacks for every minion kill or just q minion kills? Because if its former he probably has more than 10 stacks per min
I’ve only played for 2.5 years and this is the first new champ that looks like it’ll be a main of mine. I play MF and Ezreal and Veigar so this looks AMAZING
it seems to me like he could be powerful built tank/brusier bc of the set true damage burn and execution that scales with stacks on his q. If you can stay in combat longer, then that burn is just going to keep ticking and if you have a lot of stacks they're going to die. Obv you dont get the same benefit from crit so maybe not but it strikes me as potentially powerful for late game hyper-carrying.
@@MelodyJDshadowflame gives you magic crit at 30% and below. if smolder executes enemies at a quarter that, then a quarter of that crit threshold is completely wasted. does not exist. he just doesn't benefit as much from an execute item when he already is a baby elder dragon.
I love dragons in Runeterra, i play them a lot in LoR (fury) and in LoL. I would love to play him over and over, he actually looks a lot of fun to play. I wonder how he'll interact with Shyv and Asol (my highest mastery). I already heard him talk about J4 smelling like a dragon lol
His E only gets 1 extra attack per crit item (it also doesn't apply on-hit), but his Q does get up to 30% increased damage yeah. You do stack Terminus per champion hit though, which is interesting. I honestly think on-hit is pretty great on him, and you can still get some crit in there even if you do go on-hit.
Sure he isn't a Kai'sa but he has really good poke and with good positioning can easily retreat over a wall. So no matter what he isn't a adc that needs a ton of peel if he is able to play such high range like a hybrid of lethality varus and can still auto
He doesn't really seem OP, the only real "OP" ability is his 3rd Q, but aside from that he still requires a lot of consideration from the player to make work. Has Riot finally made a just right new champion?
Vayne, xayah in some circumstances, miss fortune e and then r which also works for that champion, kalista can engage with r, sivir also engages with r, so there are other adc champions who uses r first
is it just me, or is anyone else having slight "problems" with his q color? Might just be that i have slept poorly, or just bad brain. But it looks very similar to the out of mana / not enough mana to cast the spell thing, like not really i know. However when i glanced down quickly for a brief moment my brain registered it like that, then upon further notice it changed back.
Seems like he should be built as a bruiser. He doesn't have the ability to evade naturally, he just needs to survive longer. His stacking, his AoE, his burn, and his execute will get him the damage he needs, he doesn't need to be built full damage.
Re: ADCs that use R first. Vayne. Kai'sa in certain situations, but that's not preferred. Jhin if he's trying to get to a fight. Ashe if she wants to be the first engage. But all of these except for Vayne are all....situational AF. Vayne wants to pop hers right away when the fight goes all in mode. Can't think of others off the top of my head.
12:00 you could have ghosted immediately in combat or atleast after killing sylas (maybe alistar could flash w then you wouldnt live), but saving your summoner is also fine, dont give in to the hate Mr. Woof
Maybe he would also be good with something like manamune, going into the direction of corki/ezreal, though more corki as corki scales better with crit.
Curious if rapid fire cannon increase the range of his Q and if so if that would solve the issue you mention of feeling not quite as powerful as you'd like for a late game stacking champ at full build.
I feel like her q upgrade is more like an aphelios shotgun how it shoots behind since it is multiple. Also does the splash from the q trigger stacks if it kills minions or hits an enemy champion?
Is it just me that thinks it's odd you don't get two stacks for landing q on cannon like this feels intuitive based on nasus and veigar so then deviating from that seems weird.
felt more like people would forget how to auto weave due to wanting to burn the enemies with Q, some of the teamfight were pekin could've just auto attacked to kill them off, he instead walked away to wait for another Q. It feels more like he was playing it as a mage, although the kit makes you play like one.
I definitely was trying to auto weave but smolder's attack speed is so much worse than misfortunes that I probably just canceled it and that's what you saw
@@PekinWoof makes sense. The item build also didn't help, I wonder if the aa range is less than the Q range. Would make it more awkward to do an aa-cancel into Q.
That Sylas when he steals your ult be like: “that’s cool, now your mom is my mom too”
Savage
"I stole your mom"
Our mom - Sylas
@@azirious666 [*Russia's national anthem intensifies*]
@@StriderZesseiwouldn't it be the soviet anthem tho
He is a dragon
He has scales
He scales
A scaling scaled dragon?
He has MOM
@@gboyredgun His mom also has scales
@@bappo795 Scaling mom?
I have been so hype to watch you play Smolder.
Also I love that his burn execute sounds like a warped version of elder dragon execute.
i wonder if it stacks with elder
@@blackeye5181 and collector
@@blackeye5181and collector
10:45 121 IQ smolder play, nice job pekin heh
Imagine how cool it would have been if Smolder evolves based on the amount of stacks he has. Like getting bigger and maybe alternate the abilities a little more.
i imagined something roughtly in the direction like syvanas ult form when they said its a dragon champ. And your idea would work pretty good with that i think.. well, while i dont like the design he has now at least his kit is interesting. although the execute seems op but they can nerf that
the champion you’re describing is kayle, just play kayle
@@cosmofornaut exactly lmao
@@cosmofornautkayle aint a dragon
Lame
Face "issues" aside, Smolder is so fucking cute. I *LOVE* the silly proud posture and mannerisms he has. It's freaking adorable.
They gave him beans. Or made his paws look like they have beans. Cute enough
They definitely fixed his face
@@A1phaz0neIkrrrr, his paws look so squishable I can’t😭😭😭
Riot showed a texture fix for his face and said they're changing the spash art, but its not on PBE and it might not be for a bit. Unless u meant the fix, then yeah bro is cute.
Naw man the face is so human still 😭
But anyways the model posture definitely feels really nice, I’m taking reference of it in terms of poses and the flows
His Q range scales with his attack range, so if you build Rapid Fire and take Tempo you can get up to 700 range with his Q.
19:52 It looks like the execute percentage goes up infinitely. Vandiril’s video showed the percentage as 143% at 5000 passive stacks. That’s if an enemy is under 143% HP. LOLZ
Never clicked faster on a pekin video
I have :(
Forreal tho, same here 😅
Hwei and Naafiri first vids were hype too
@@ZEFFENWULF true but for me he posts late at night so it's hard to catch a video early!
3:09 Zac an absolute bro
I really love this little guy. His kit reminds me a bit of Corki. I also like how he scales up without seeming too op.
Senna: "Am I a joke to you?"
Kindred 2 XD
A caster adc that even though he has infinite scaling with Q he requires a lot of skill to pull off perfectly, I love him
I don’t think this champ requires any skill, he’s very basic and beginners friendly like MF
@@Assassinzzz0 maybe, but he's not that easy to pull off
@@micemuhe isn’t hard at all his Q is point and click
@mete8901 I didn't say hard but his q is so short range and he is a caster adc not a autoattack machine like most adcs
"Caster adc" Bruv this is just a midlaner, ad midlaner, like he might be ad but he's a mage yfeel me?
i think Smolder just completed the League of Veigar.
Top: Nasus
Jungle: Kindred
Mid: Veigar
Support: Senna
ADC: Smolder
4:48 Smolder looks so proud walking away after breaking Warwick's ankles
they're actually releasing fun champs which I love. only played ranked again cause of Hwei and now can't wait to use this 'adc'
6:54 "pretty... low cooldown on mom... right?" LMFAO yo momma jokes now have a new layer
yo momma's cooldown so big it gives Karthus time to sing a full Dream Theater album before his ult goes off
”Very first scaling adc”
Senna: am I a joke to you?:(
Kindred.@onyxsardonyx
Id love to see you build him ap and try to see if his damage focus shifts more towards aoe poke with his w, and maybe nashors on hit on his e or soemthing. Ap ratios seem decent, could definitely be fun!
AP is not really great unless you can get far ahead. I haven't tried him on hit AP yet that might be something with his Q
@@InvaderZae. I was thinking ap cdr with nashors to just max out his w AOE damage in team fights and ulti AOE, and then cdr makes his e lower cd as well, so if people try to jump on you you can reposition and do a lot of damage at the same time. I think burst pen with shadowflame stormsurge would be bad, unless giga fed. But maybe like the ultimate cdr item, cosmic, seraphs, nashors and cdr boots or something could be good. Play for poke AOE damage and utility while being very hard to pin down.
Problem is his passive (all magic damage) has no ap scalings, it's all from his stacks. So all AP turns into Phsyical damage on all his QWER
Also Q only has a 15% ap scaling. So you would still need some AD to have a good harass tool.
What interesting could be is riftmaker. And probably shadowflame with the crit.
@@PekinWoofDo you think just sorc shoes would be any good on him?
seems like an interesting champ, feels like an interesting combination of some other adcs. Ult reminds me most of Pantheon R with the travel speed.
I didn’t expect q to be point and click ngl.
And imo naviri without any AS feels kinda bad maybe ie is better.
Also does he get stacks for every minion kill or just q minion kills? Because if its former he probably has more than 10 stacks per min
he gets stacks off of q minion kills and hitting enemies with abilities, just like veigar
Q
I’ve only played for 2.5 years and this is the first new champ that looks like it’ll be a main of mine. I play MF and Ezreal and Veigar so this looks AMAZING
Yeah same here, I love the caster ADCs and this guy seems pretty fun. Lots of poke and a good large ult
Super hyped to see all the content you've got for the new season Pekin!
He will be super strong on ARAM for sure
Been eagerly waiting for your vid on Smolder :)
Hope Smolder becomes a staple off meta pick like Briar
Nahh smolder is basically a better ezreal
@@OtwBingung he has considerably lower range and worse mobility tho
@@Danny_B13 yeah i consider my take hahaha, i only see the q stacks
@@OtwBingung so are you agreeing with me... Or...?
he can't face control mages but he does well against mid/close ranged mid champions
i feel like in botlane he could do really well with a protective support like tahm kench or maybe braum
nami could be good too. Nami R+Smolder R could be very powerful
26:06 With you taking those krugs, now I wanna jungle with Smolder!
it seems to me like he could be powerful built tank/brusier bc of the set true damage burn and execution that scales with stacks on his q. If you can stay in combat longer, then that burn is just going to keep ticking and if you have a lot of stacks they're going to die. Obv you dont get the same benefit from crit so maybe not but it strikes me as potentially powerful for late game hyper-carrying.
Shadowflame as a late item is pretty good with the ap scaling and the passive
The pen is wasted
@@Keurgui1 shadowflame makes his passive magic dmg gain crit which is massive people are sleeping on that.
@@MelodyJD what are you talking about ahhahahhahah
@@Keurgui1look at the new Shadowflame. It could actually work
@@MelodyJDshadowflame gives you magic crit at 30% and below. if smolder executes enemies at a quarter that, then a quarter of that crit threshold is completely wasted. does not exist. he just doesn't benefit as much from an execute item when he already is a baby elder dragon.
his kit looks cool but kinda seem like he's gonna struggle into high range champions big time even when scaled
I love dragons in Runeterra, i play them a lot in LoR (fury) and in LoL. I would love to play him over and over, he actually looks a lot of fun to play. I wonder how he'll interact with Shyv and Asol (my highest mastery). I already heard him talk about J4 smelling like a dragon lol
I'm so excited to try him as an ad option for midlane, I'll finally have another one besides yone
Ah yes, the new Spyro the dragon champion
I think with all the ap ratios he has you’re meant to go IE shadowflame (who’s bonus damage is increased by IE) making ur abilities crit
I don’t think he has that many ap ratios? The magic damage is mostly based off stacks I think
@@Nerdwithtoomanybooks his q has a 15% ap ratio
W 35% + 65%
R had a 100% ap ratio and the center is 130% with the heal having a 75% ratio
"Sheen gives ability haste now, that's a new thing" Ouch.. I never experienced spontaneous aging like this.
29:34 Ashe also uses her R to engage
Varus too
Ashe, varus, ezreal, kalista, miss fortune 👍
9:45
"A maw looks good on Smolder"
OW YOU DON'T SAY!!
His E only gets 1 extra attack per crit item (it also doesn't apply on-hit), but his Q does get up to 30% increased damage yeah. You do stack Terminus per champion hit though, which is interesting. I honestly think on-hit is pretty great on him, and you can still get some crit in there even if you do go on-hit.
Sure he isn't a Kai'sa but he has really good poke and with good positioning can easily retreat over a wall. So no matter what he isn't a adc that needs a ton of peel if he is able to play such high range like a hybrid of lethality varus and can still auto
He doesn't really seem OP, the only real "OP" ability is his 3rd Q, but aside from that he still requires a lot of consideration from the player to make work.
Has Riot finally made a just right new champion?
I love how he focuses the camera on the champion as soon as he enters combat.
Seems he'll be fine in the mid lane as well
Mages will be annoying to play against, but overral he doesn't look that bad mid, i wonder if a comet W Max build would be better in those matchups?
Starts the video saying he's an ADC so you need to mix in auto attacks... proceeds to just move around and wait for Q cooldown to demolish fights.
29:34 Sivir is a good champ to press R before a fight to engage
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TY PEKIN
Flap flap flap flap get practice get practice get practise get practice
" we dont think our champs have overloaded kits " but they proceed to give elder to an adc
Q range is extended by RFC, I think he is going to synergize extremely well with Energize ADC items
Vayne, xayah in some circumstances, miss fortune e and then r which also works for that champion, kalista can engage with r, sivir also engages with r, so there are other adc champions who uses r first
I can already see lots of nasus, bel'veth, veigar, smolder and senna team lmao
it feels so wholesome to have the way of items as before
No attack speed on a crit adc with navori is pretty troll
An enemy to Smolder that stacks ability haste: “Dude how low is the cooldown on your mom?”
"You know who else has a short cooldown? MY MOM!" - Muscle Smolder
When sylas takes smolder ult, it should be his mom that comes down. I wanna see just some demacian lady fall out of the sky and run through enemies.
Great video. Good explanations, dude.
Gotta be honest, when I saw the champion abilities on the reveal, "ADC" was not the first thing that came to mind o.o
At 22:02 it looks like you got a stack on the ranged minion even though you didn't last hit with Q (Kaisa did)
I wish they didn't try so hard and turn him into a pixar character, but his kit looks fun. Guess I'll just have to mute his voice to stay sane.
Great gameplay, thanks for the video!
Why did it show Kog’Maws portrait in the Scoreboard at the end?
is it just me, or is anyone else having slight "problems" with his q color?
Might just be that i have slept poorly, or just bad brain. But it looks very similar to the out of mana / not enough mana to cast the spell thing, like not really i know. However when i glanced down quickly for a brief moment my brain registered it like that, then upon further notice it changed back.
( in the beginning )
yeah the colour of it was weird, it has so much blank blue space. got used it a bit later in the vid too.
Seems like he should be built as a bruiser. He doesn't have the ability to evade naturally, he just needs to survive longer.
His stacking, his AoE, his burn, and his execute will get him the damage he needs, he doesn't need to be built full damage.
Re: ADCs that use R first. Vayne. Kai'sa in certain situations, but that's not preferred. Jhin if he's trying to get to a fight. Ashe if she wants to be the first engage. But all of these except for Vayne are all....situational AF. Vayne wants to pop hers right away when the fight goes all in mode. Can't think of others off the top of my head.
I was about to say twitch but he usually uses stealth first.
High elo cait will sometimes to get someone super low before a fight
Aphelios
I think it's adorable that his moms hot breath heals him a little bit! Super cute champ in general ❤
Also..... /c
23:12 "It take forever for it to drop!"
My guy, it way faster than it should for lenght of what it could do.
12:00 you could have ghosted immediately in combat or atleast after killing sylas (maybe alistar could flash w then you wouldnt live), but saving your summoner is also fine, dont give in to the hate Mr. Woof
29:40 Vayne, Twitch, Zeri they all use R first when teamfight starts
aww you should post the first set of these games, that one was so fun
Talking about going Collector , is it wasted with the execute burn?
haven't played for a while but I'm happy to finally see a simple and fun straightforward champion
Yaayyyyy🎉 the vid I was waiting for. Thank you again mr pekin
Maybe he would also be good with something like manamune, going into the direction of corki/ezreal, though more corki as corki scales better with crit.
He’s not as bursty as you’d expect from a crit adc
Curious if rapid fire cannon increase the range of his Q and if so if that would solve the issue you mention of feeling not quite as powerful as you'd like for a late game stacking champ at full build.
"low cooldown on mom" is somehow chuckle worthy
Feels like hes better build bruiser. Since he doesn't scale that much off ad, has low range, and gets damage just from stacking his passive anyway.
bug at 22:01, got a stack for pressing q at the frame the minion dies
How are his AP ratios, would it even be viable or does his stacking Passive kind of just negate that?
He's a little baby elder dragon. Smolder execute animation is literally the same as elder
That feeling when you use R and your mom comes out with legendary Sandal+1
But for you, not your opponent
This kinda makes me wanna see like a Nasus jungle just camping the mini grubs for infinite stacks!
Just in time, I literally just turned my computer off and got in bed lol
It’s almost like he’s forgetting twitch in his examples😭
pekin, what are your thoughts on new build path for Briar mid?
reminds me of corki, wonder how Trinity -> Murumana -> quickblades
I feel like Pekin is playing more like a mage than an ADC, I think he's probably a fine late game stacker just not a burst mage lol
I feel like her q upgrade is more like an aphelios shotgun how it shoots behind since it is multiple. Also does the splash from the q trigger stacks if it kills minions or hits an enemy champion?
I wonder if Smolder would benefit from a corki like build, like Manamune Ravenous Hydra into some Ap like deathcap
"Sheen gives CDR. That's a new thing." No friend, it's an old thing :)
Thumbnails says first Infinite scaling ADC.
Isn't senna an infinite scaler to?
Or am I wrong?
Would collector work in conjunction with the execute i wonder, where it just increases the thteshold by 5%? Pron not right
That Q is Miss fortune's on steroids. However, it seems like he's squishier than normal carries.
Ok but like why does he have the kogmaw icon? at the end of the game
did nobody notice that in the scoreboard he has Kog máw and not smolder ? or is it just me
Is it just me that thinks it's odd you don't get two stacks for landing q on cannon like this feels intuitive based on nasus and veigar so then deviating from that seems weird.
felt more like people would forget how to auto weave due to wanting to burn the enemies with Q, some of the teamfight were pekin could've just auto attacked to kill them off, he instead walked away to wait for another Q. It feels more like he was playing it as a mage, although the kit makes you play like one.
I definitely was trying to auto weave but smolder's attack speed is so much worse than misfortunes that I probably just canceled it and that's what you saw
@@PekinWoof makes sense. The item build also didn't help, I wonder if the aa range is less than the Q range. Would make it more awkward to do an aa-cancel into Q.
The vid we’ve all been waiting for
Cool video but did you finish challenger? 🤔
Yes, barely lol
Love everything about him but his E. It's so weird. Wish it was like Shyvana ult but over terrain capable