Why so many low elo videos? I try to make High Elo (High GM / Challenger) commentarys by sitting in queue for ~20 minutes, then have to get mid because mid videos do best, then perform well. I played about 3.5 hours of solo queue (3 games), and I had one "decent" video Zeri video where I did my job on AP Zeri, went like 6/3/4, but bot lane and jungle had around 25 KP, so basically I was barely part of the game at all, thus it will not do well because firstly titling and thumbnailing an average game is bad, but also it's not as fun to watch as when you are the "Main Character" in a game (AKA the fed person). Low Elo videos are 1st or 2nd try every single time, with no queue time, no autofill, and GUARENTEED like 2x views over high elo (UNLESS it's a HUGE POP OFF which is nearly impossible to do in Challenger consistently). I'll still try my best for high elo games, I enjoy them. But if you want to see me play in Challenger then watch my stream, or PekinWoof2 Channel. I never do low elo content on stream. Enemy team was Gold 2 Olaf, Yi and Jhin Silver, Bronze Akshan.
Dude, who cares what Elo it's in, you still do a good job of explaining what's happening and how it helps/damages your team. Most People watching Probably learn better from low Elo game explanations than High Elo anyway, lets be real we aren't all Diamond players.
Old fan here. Actually love the style ur doing this right now. Having fun with off-meta champs in low elo and take some of them to the high elo when u think they r strong. Plus ur doing normal game, so nobody's life is ruined (if we say lp defines one's life). Def love ur high elo content more since there r more thought process, but hey, a change of mood is not bad at all :)))) And last but not least plz upload more videos to ur second channels lol it has too few videos as a recording channel :)))) Thanks Pekin for creating all these contents
For anybody wondering why the 2 points in Q: Taric's Q heals you based on the amount of stacks you have. You get stacks for hitting stuff with your passive autos. The maximum amount of stacks that you can get increases with levels. On level 1 you can hold 1 stack, on level 2 you can have 2 stacks. Hitting two of your passive autos will give you maximum stacks (2) while also refreshing your entire Q CD so you can immediatly cast it again to get two more passive autos which will allows you to get your 2 Q stacks while also refreshing the cooldown -> repeat. Putting more levels into Q will increase the base heal and how many stacks you can have so putting more than 2 points into it is kinda useless.
true, but the missing damage and cd of your stun reduces your ability to fight to much. A 2nd point in Q on lvl 9 is more then resonable, but at lvl 4 it hurts you more then it helps. Then again, his tactic of phase rush to escape is pretty stupid, since Taric is strongest when sticking to the enemy and forcing them to try and get away from him.
@@Guutak Personally? get an early tear, use the higher damage and lower cd on stun to be the bully and make your trades count. (stun only costs 40 mana compared to 60 for heal. During fight you want to shield over heal anyway since a lvl 1 shield shields more then a 5 stacl lvl 5 Q heals. With shieldbash even more so) Ditch Thornmail and run frozen instead. Your mid/lategame goal is to keep them stunned most of the time anyways, so there won't really be any returned damage. Frozen on the other hand offers more mana to work with and gives the CDR you desire and reduces the damage they can deal in the short window they arn't stunned. (Especially if you run lethal tempo. On max stacks LT, passive and AS from lvl up's you end with an attackspeed of ~2.6. At that point you want the cdr to have yopur stun ready every 4 Autos) Going LT also offers access to PoM to somewhat sustain your mana needs. Just think twice about a lvl 1 all in. Sure, you most likely will win it with heal on lvl 1 to sustain your passive, but it will leave you relatively depleted manawise and if you face a sustaining champ you may be forced into an early recall. So make it count.
Ok, just tested just for fun. with LT, Alacrity (0 stacks, so just 3% AS) and 0 attack speed from items, Taric reaches and attackspeed on lvl 18 of 1.42 (2.84 with passive). At that Attackspeed Taric needs 184 Spellhaste to cast his stun every 2 autos. (meaning you cast your stun effectively before the last stun even procs) With the stun not having a casttime/animation that interrupts his AA, he can keep up the 2.84 AA/s with a 1.5 sec stun every second. With Alacrity fully stacked, we have an AS of 1.51 (3.02). 186 cdr allows a perfect stun, AA, AA, rotation. (183 as 1-2 frames of cd after the 2nd auto) Yes, those cdr values require hextech drake or creative item choices, but if you want a wanky F.U. build, go for it. (Well... spellhast needs may vary with hextech drake, since it also gives AS)
I'm rolling at the sound effects. Bonking the Akshan to death as he runs away with the jungler watching a few feet away made me laugh. I love the shock that emanates from the laners when they go up against a nonmeta pick.
God that poor akshan. I'd tilt pretty hard queuing a normal to learn and just getting bonked on the head under my tower. Lmao. That being said. Love the content man. Keep it up
Love your deadpan humor and content my guy, I don't play anymore, but I'm glad to see someone still having fun with this game. Keep on doing what your doing my dude. Also, cahment's 4 da algohrhythm
As a taric jg player, BOTRK is the way to go if you want that sweet sweet damage Stealing movement speed and dealing maxhp physical damage on hit On top of giving taric attack speed and AD (taric loves these stats) And also some lifesteal (taric heals enough so meh)
Always really fun to watch these videos. The difference between these off-meta/weird build videos when you do them is that we all know you’re actually good and challenger. Unlike other UA-cam creators, you can make even crazier builds work and still explain some game sense while outplaying decent players! Keep it up!
I really love the mix of high and low elo content. Obviously it'd be a horrendous tragedy to stop getting any high elo content from you, but I totally appreciate how much easier low elo content is to make, and honestly even with that aside it's nice for us to get to mix things up and get the comic variety of low elo. Don't let the haters get you down about the ratio of high to low elo videos. Stream and second channel are plenty (sad as I am that the youtube algorithm makes that a smart way to split it)
Literally i just watch you while getting ready for work or while trying to sleep, your content is just so soothing and calming and i am also just learning more and more about the game by just watching you. Thank you Pekin for being amazing!
Dear Pekin, yes I do prefer content in high elo and I'm glad you like making those, i love the Zoe games and the undying Xerath gameplay, however, I'll watch anything you post because you always have the educational value and being such a calm person is an inspiration, i love it very much. Do what you have to do!
I greatly enjoy your content regardless of ELO you're playing in. You're next level, and I love how you take champions you've barely played but manage to pull off great plays just from your general knowledge of the game. Always very enjoyable to watch you play.
I think to remember Taric with more bruiser type build doing better in mid, the thing with tank is that you rely on your team for the dmg and most (all the time) they can't do anything.
Second ult correction in a row, so here we go: Olaf's ultimate extends indefinitely as long as he is either attacking you or using E. Taric's ultimate, much like Kayle's, can't prevent that.
great vid man, love the commentary and explanations on stuff and love to see someone good playing taric using something other than god awful/boring support mythics in mid/top lol
question , why 2 points into q , when it only increases your maximum charges , doesnt make the healing stronger or the mana cost lower , just makes it so u can have 2 charges which most of the time you wont use , cuz you only spam one
@@MrMidgetMania autoing twice only lets u cast q once, it doesnt give you 2 charges, it lowers the cd of 1 of your q charges from 100% to 50% and then 0
I do enjoy these off meta picks, id say about as much as your regular Champs for different reasons. Its cool to see experimentation with these things, and I also like the depth of knowledge you impart for Champs like Zoe lux and Xerath
I love Taric. He was my first M7, but I always thought he was great 1v1 instead so I later took him top. That was def pivotal to getting me to plat LOL. Nowadays I actually like him AD bruiser (kinda like Leona.) Tear -> Divine Sunderer early, Manamune second, then any tank or AD bruiser items depending on the game. Dead Man's helps a lot too so you can chase a bit. Super fun! Also your advice to ignore your W is a bit bad; it's pivotal to getting a reset if you manage to mess up your weaving somehow. You don't wanna waste time on it if you have heal up, but if you don't you should use it to get your Q back online. Also maxing it second over Q means you get more armor since you won't really get all the stacks on Q anyway and the heal is not great either.
Run Lethal Tempo and you don't even need attackspeed items to reach the AS-cap, at which point you just have to aim for the cdr to get a stun every 4 autos.
To clarify: You put 2 points in Q right away so that after your two passive AA hit your Q is reset. So you can spam Q ,AA, AA, Q, AA, AA… until you run out of mana.
You don't need lvl 2 Q for that. That Q AA AA Q rotation is the reason why Taric is one of the strongest lvl 1 fighters, as such an early Q lvl 2 only hurts him.
As a content creator how do you not have enough mice to decorate a Christmas tree by now. I have bought 4 since 2019, and just bought my 5th a couple weeks ago. I always get a switch burn out, or double clicks after like 8 months or so.
I feel like taking Titanic Hydra or BotRK would have made you able to solo carry. Hydra with Fimbulwinter is over 100 bonus AD and 60 dmg on hit, and BotRK would let you solo anyone with % health dmg while being basically invulnerable from the rest of Taric's kit.
I looked through the comments and didn't see anyone mention low ranks? Might be mostly in your head man, if people watch the whacky games more it's because it's what they want to see. You won't turn into Zwag
Last time i was this early, Pekdaddy snuck up behind me in the shower and RaWrXD me it made me UwU which in turn made him hehe me causing me to ^>^ which allowed him to stun me and jump on top of me and beat me down… in lane, of course
You can kite out his stacks very easily, he has no innate dashes, movement speed, or slows outside of his stun. His attack speed passive is not a huge issue.
@@vlordstaberinde I think "easily" is a bit of an understatement... he can use his stun off of a teammate with as many dashes, slows, and movement speed boosts as possible.
Oh, wow. You guys lost but you posted it anyway. Content creator diff, huge. Your skills and abilities showcase is still 100% enjoyable, so keep posting anyway, wins or loses.
Why so many low elo videos? I try to make High Elo (High GM / Challenger) commentarys by sitting in queue for ~20 minutes, then have to get mid because mid videos do best, then perform well. I played about 3.5 hours of solo queue (3 games), and I had one "decent" video Zeri video where I did my job on AP Zeri, went like 6/3/4, but bot lane and jungle had around 25 KP, so basically I was barely part of the game at all, thus it will not do well because firstly titling and thumbnailing an average game is bad, but also it's not as fun to watch as when you are the "Main Character" in a game (AKA the fed person). Low Elo videos are 1st or 2nd try every single time, with no queue time, no autofill, and GUARENTEED like 2x views over high elo (UNLESS it's a HUGE POP OFF which is nearly impossible to do in Challenger consistently). I'll still try my best for high elo games, I enjoy them. But if you want to see me play in Challenger then watch my stream, or PekinWoof2 Channel. I never do low elo content on stream.
Enemy team was Gold 2 Olaf, Yi and Jhin Silver, Bronze Akshan.
Dude, who cares what Elo it's in, you still do a good job of explaining what's happening and how it helps/damages your team. Most People watching Probably learn better from low Elo game explanations than High Elo anyway, lets be real we aren't all Diamond players.
I love watching your second channel videos my guy, keep up the killer f*cking work you deserve every view
Also your not even a smurf bc its norms
Old fan here. Actually love the style ur doing this right now. Having fun with off-meta champs in low elo and take some of them to the high elo when u think they r strong. Plus ur doing normal game, so nobody's life is ruined (if we say lp defines one's life). Def love ur high elo content more since there r more thought process, but hey, a change of mood is not bad at all :)))) And last but not least plz upload more videos to ur second channels lol it has too few videos as a recording channel :)))) Thanks Pekin for creating all these contents
Thank you. I was going to write a comment asking about Zoe but I'll look at the second channel now. Love your commentary.
For anybody wondering why the 2 points in Q:
Taric's Q heals you based on the amount of stacks you have. You get stacks for hitting stuff with your passive autos. The maximum amount of stacks that you can get increases with levels. On level 1 you can hold 1 stack, on level 2 you can have 2 stacks. Hitting two of your passive autos will give you maximum stacks (2) while also refreshing your entire Q CD so you can immediatly cast it again to get two more passive autos which will allows you to get your 2 Q stacks while also refreshing the cooldown -> repeat. Putting more levels into Q will increase the base heal and how many stacks you can have so putting more than 2 points into it is kinda useless.
true, but the missing damage and cd of your stun reduces your ability to fight to much. A 2nd point in Q on lvl 9 is more then resonable, but at lvl 4 it hurts you more then it helps.
Then again, his tactic of phase rush to escape is pretty stupid, since Taric is strongest when sticking to the enemy and forcing them to try and get away from him.
Ok but how to deal with the lack of mana in early please ? :)
@@Guutak don't spam too much, don't take too much poke, lasthit without using abilitys, buy a tear
@@Guutak Personally? get an early tear, use the higher damage and lower cd on stun to be the bully and make your trades count. (stun only costs 40 mana compared to 60 for heal. During fight you want to shield over heal anyway since a lvl 1 shield shields more then a 5 stacl lvl 5 Q heals. With shieldbash even more so)
Ditch Thornmail and run frozen instead. Your mid/lategame goal is to keep them stunned most of the time anyways, so there won't really be any returned damage. Frozen on the other hand offers more mana to work with and gives the CDR you desire and reduces the damage they can deal in the short window they arn't stunned. (Especially if you run lethal tempo. On max stacks LT, passive and AS from lvl up's you end with an attackspeed of ~2.6. At that point you want the cdr to have yopur stun ready every 4 Autos)
Going LT also offers access to PoM to somewhat sustain your mana needs.
Just think twice about a lvl 1 all in. Sure, you most likely will win it with heal on lvl 1 to sustain your passive, but it will leave you relatively depleted manawise and if you face a sustaining champ you may be forced into an early recall. So make it count.
Ok, just tested just for fun. with LT, Alacrity (0 stacks, so just 3% AS) and 0 attack speed from items, Taric reaches and attackspeed on lvl 18 of 1.42 (2.84 with passive).
At that Attackspeed Taric needs 184 Spellhaste to cast his stun every 2 autos. (meaning you cast your stun effectively before the last stun even procs) With the stun not having a casttime/animation that interrupts his AA, he can keep up the 2.84 AA/s with a 1.5 sec stun every second.
With Alacrity fully stacked, we have an AS of 1.51 (3.02). 186 cdr allows a perfect stun, AA, AA, rotation. (183 as 1-2 frames of cd after the 2nd auto)
Yes, those cdr values require hextech drake or creative item choices, but if you want a wanky F.U. build, go for it. (Well... spellhast needs may vary with hextech drake, since it also gives AS)
I'm rolling at the sound effects. Bonking the Akshan to death as he runs away with the jungler watching a few feet away made me laugh. I love the shock that emanates from the laners when they go up against a nonmeta pick.
God that poor akshan. I'd tilt pretty hard queuing a normal to learn and just getting bonked on the head under my tower. Lmao.
That being said. Love the content man. Keep it up
Love the little kiss the Eve does at you in the beginning as you're explaining things. I always love doing that.
Did Pekin play Skarner mid? No.
Lose Streak: 282
🙏 one day
Love your deadpan humor and content my guy, I don't play anymore, but I'm glad to see someone still having fun with this game. Keep on doing what your doing my dude. Also, cahment's 4 da algohrhythm
I think titanic hydra would be op on this, you have so much additional hp and attack kinda fast, and that thing hits hard with hp
Speaking as a Taric top player, Titanic Hydra is the sauce
As a taric jg player, BOTRK is the way to go if you want that sweet sweet damage
Stealing movement speed and dealing maxhp physical damage on hit
On top of giving taric attack speed and AD (taric loves these stats)
And also some lifesteal (taric heals enough so meh)
@@ibanganimeboys isnt attack speed useless bc he just autos w his passive (which make him attack fast anyway)? Or does attack speed increase that
@@alanarmstrong3186 the bravado passive doubles the attack speed taric gets from items
@@ibanganimeboys thx
Always really fun to watch these videos. The difference between these off-meta/weird build videos when you do them is that we all know you’re actually good and challenger. Unlike other UA-cam creators, you can make even crazier builds work and still explain some game sense while outplaying decent players! Keep it up!
I enjoy all of your content regardless of rank, do what you like playing! (Even though I don’t think anyone above honor level 100 enjoys this game)
Account level 300; I still love this game
Account level 270 still love this game
Account level 522; I still love this game. (but I hate people I meet in this game)
There are not even 100 honor levels. I think there are only 6
@@Cole444Train 5, but ok
I really love the mix of high and low elo content. Obviously it'd be a horrendous tragedy to stop getting any high elo content from you, but I totally appreciate how much easier low elo content is to make, and honestly even with that aside it's nice for us to get to mix things up and get the comic variety of low elo. Don't let the haters get you down about the ratio of high to low elo videos. Stream and second channel are plenty (sad as I am that the youtube algorithm makes that a smart way to split it)
29:56 olaf's ult now prolongs if he's in battle, so if he keeps attacking you while you are in your ult, he keeps his ult too
Literally i just watch you while getting ready for work or while trying to sleep, your content is just so soothing and calming and i am also just learning more and more about the game by just watching you. Thank you Pekin for being amazing!
This has inspired me to give Taric a try again. Never really took the time to understand his mechanics but this all made it make complete sense!
Dear Pekin, yes I do prefer content in high elo and I'm glad you like making those, i love the Zoe games and the undying Xerath gameplay, however, I'll watch anything you post because you always have the educational value and being such a calm person is an inspiration, i love it very much. Do what you have to do!
I greatly enjoy your content regardless of ELO you're playing in. You're next level, and I love how you take champions you've barely played but manage to pull off great plays just from your general knowledge of the game. Always very enjoyable to watch you play.
I think to remember Taric with more bruiser type build doing better in mid, the thing with tank is that you rely on your team for the dmg and most (all the time) they can't do anything.
Second ult correction in a row, so here we go:
Olaf's ultimate extends indefinitely as long as he is either attacking you or using E. Taric's ultimate, much like Kayle's, can't prevent that.
Jg Taric with predator is actually so much fun. It’s quite team dependent but maybe going frostfire into Bork with be a little more carry oriented
great vid man, love the commentary and explanations on stuff and love to see someone good playing taric using something other than god awful/boring support mythics in mid/top lol
question , why 2 points into q , when it only increases your maximum charges , doesnt make the healing stronger or the mana cost lower , just makes it so u can have 2 charges which most of the time you wont use , cuz you only spam one
His passive gives 2 empowered attacks so he gets 2 charges each passive, and each cast of q consumes all charges.
Also levels don't reduce the mana cost
@@MrMidgetMania autoing twice only lets u cast q once, it doesnt give you 2 charges, it lowers the cd of 1 of your q charges from 100% to 50% and then 0
@@canozbegen yeah i said that, another part that makes me confused why use 1 more point into q
@@ZhoomTheCool It says in the Q passive that he gets a stack for each Bravado hit, so 2 hits = 2 Q charges.
I do enjoy these off meta picks, id say about as much as your regular Champs for different reasons. Its cool to see experimentation with these things, and I also like the depth of knowledge you impart for Champs like Zoe lux and Xerath
I love Taric. He was my first M7, but I always thought he was great 1v1 instead so I later took him top. That was def pivotal to getting me to plat LOL.
Nowadays I actually like him AD bruiser (kinda like Leona.) Tear -> Divine Sunderer early, Manamune second, then any tank or AD bruiser items depending on the game. Dead Man's helps a lot too so you can chase a bit. Super fun!
Also your advice to ignore your W is a bit bad; it's pivotal to getting a reset if you manage to mess up your weaving somehow. You don't wanna waste time on it if you have heal up, but if you don't you should use it to get your Q back online. Also maxing it second over Q means you get more armor since you won't really get all the stacks on Q anyway and the heal is not great either.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Sorry it took you so long to get to record it :(. I learned how taric works too which is a big plus
Would you try ap taric? Sth like everfrost for even more lockdown and then demonic fimbulwinter maybe?
On this video I couldn't help to notice that you said it has a feel to it. Does that mean we can get more Taric games maybe once a week?
Hey, could you link person you got idea from?
Also, great video, as always
i love this! ive been trying to learn melee so super helpful
This game was really enjoyable to watch, sick taric gameplay xD
i freaking love the taric build with the tank tear item, titanic, some armor, spirit boots depends and either gargoyle or death dance haha
Run Lethal Tempo and you don't even need attackspeed items to reach the AS-cap, at which point you just have to aim for the cdr to get a stun every 4 autos.
To clarify: You put 2 points in Q right away so that after your two passive AA hit your Q is reset. So you can spam Q ,AA, AA, Q, AA, AA… until you run out of mana.
You don't need lvl 2 Q for that. That Q AA AA Q rotation is the reason why Taric is one of the strongest lvl 1 fighters, as such an early Q lvl 2 only hurts him.
At 1:30 u did click there but when u went to dodge u clicked the UI in the 1 item slot location so it never canceled your last move command.
it was very fun
n, thanks for this pekin i aprecciate your content!
As a content creator how do you not have enough mice to decorate a Christmas tree by now. I have bought 4 since 2019, and just bought my 5th a couple weeks ago. I always get a switch burn out, or double clicks after like 8 months or so.
This game was wildly fun to watch. Holy mackerel.
Tbh im enjoying the low elo vids more than the high elo ones, but ill watch your content regardless
Great video but I don’t understand why you don’t level abilities sometimes Pekin
Truly outrageous gameplay
Truly, truly, TRULY outrageous (kshaways Taric video is iconic btw❤️)
KDA skin line DREAMS to have such a smooth hair animation like Taric's
nice video and nice pick, could be an option of mid tank
Yo Pekin I saw your older videos you used to play a lot of Zed. Why did you stop playing him?
I feel like taking Titanic Hydra or BotRK would have made you able to solo carry. Hydra with Fimbulwinter is over 100 bonus AD and 60 dmg on hit, and BotRK would let you solo anyone with % health dmg while being basically invulnerable from the rest of Taric's kit.
What about bruiser taric with muramana? :D
Hi Pekin hope you're having a good day!
Sweet vid bro!
Thank you Mr. Pekin
Great game. Kind of hilarious 😂
Yay Taric! My favorite champ! Love to see it.
A light rocket comment here would be the seal of approval 👌
Brings me back this Taric jungle long long time ago
PecanWolf doin a lightrocket cosplay
I looked through the comments and didn't see anyone mention low ranks? Might be mostly in your head man, if people watch the whacky games more it's because it's what they want to see. You won't turn into Zwag
I really enjoy your videos
We enjoy the losses too, your commentary is enjoyable always
Dude, first rammus and now taric, my two mains lmao
wouldnt titanic hydra be pretty good?
You know you got to ff early when you’re against someone named 1 percent Shaggy, kirby with hair or Lillia hoof pics.
Why no Lethal Tempo?
This was funnier than I thought.
Crazy, that would've drive me nuts if I was playing against this
you gotta try lissandra support
that evelynn kiss at the beginning of the match was cute
Bro ur low elo videos still are high elo for some of us xD hehehe lov this ofmeta mids
YES! TRULY OUTRAGEOUS
When Taric is the real deal :D
another fun build :)
All hail the algorithm!
i hate taric as a champion but you make me wanna play him lol
taric gameplay lets GO
Taric the LgbT menace!
lolol Yi at 4:50
This makes me miss 45% cdr pre rework taric with permanent ult and 0.2 sec window for opponents to move
Last time i was this early, Pekdaddy snuck up behind me in the shower and RaWrXD me it made me UwU which in turn made him hehe me causing me to ^>^ which allowed him to stun me and jump on top of me and beat me down… in lane, of course
Hehe I played Taric so much! Hey Pekin, do you have a gf? :>
Asking the real questions
I can respect it.
He does I think
He's married, two kids.
"I don't have a girlfriend, i have a mommy" -pekinwoof
I feel like Taric's attack speed is a little unreasonable
You can kite out his stacks very easily, he has no innate dashes, movement speed, or slows outside of his stun. His attack speed passive is not a huge issue.
@@vlordstaberinde I think "easily" is a bit of an understatement... he can use his stun off of a teammate with as many dashes, slows, and movement speed boosts as possible.
wow such a cool video
3:35 runes
Commenting for Pekin
I have stun again!
Edit: it has a feel to it.. clunk clunk clunk whistle.
Lvl 27 account?
Bonk, bonk... Bonk, bonk...
Oh, wow. You guys lost but you posted it anyway. Content creator diff, huge. Your skills and abilities showcase is still 100% enjoyable, so keep posting anyway, wins or loses.
Commenting for the algorithm 🗿
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You would have been better off going fimbulwinter second item into deaths dance third item. Trust me, give it a try.
what is this, urf?!
bonk gaming
Taric
Algorithm 👌🏽
Ggwp!
unlucky timing
ggwp!
I think you focused the yi way too often, everybody else on his team does more damage
nice
GRAGAS MID
algorithm
bring back DFG Taric
This looks like dumb fun. It feels good, really.
Bonk
ggs