I came to also type this, I agree completely o/

much better than seeing the plat player w 18000 games who is like IM AN EXPER ON EVERY SINGLE CHAMP AND BUILD

agree

@@rattusgrenadus8291cough *zwag* cough

agree. also, i think it is extremely valuable seeing how you can play from behind and turn a game with a bad start into a win

Agreed. It's awful.

I feel Garen is really good into Illaoi, but I think Pekin didn't know what Illaoi does.

@@legarate having been a Garen main, it's winnable but still a rough matchup.

@@legarate In my experience he's really good at neutralizing her, but it's pretty hard to get a kill unless she messes up drastically

Riven so much harder! But won

Put me down for $5 on Mundo being his worst top next video.

I dont think it could be the worst since he functions well on baiting and low hp and pekin is quite skilled at a similar champ Warwick

Pekin's gonna have the Drututt problem where he just does not click with certain toplaners

@@omicron4363 Drututt is a mental case. Moans that certain champs are so OP while he mains Akshan. Find it so hillarious. Drututt copes, Pekin does not cope. He analyze and improve. Altso i got banned from Drututts chat. He was complaining about some random toplaner being the most OP champ in LoL. I said "I think Akshan is the most OP champ" Insta ban. He wasnt even playing Akshan that game :D Total nutcase.

​@@MrDanisveHe's definitely got times where self-awareness kicks in and he has humility, but 90% of that other time he's screeching about how bs some picks are. He's definitely right about a lot of top lane champs being insufferably strong for how brain dead they are, but completely excuses himself and is toxic to the enemy when he abuses it. He also loves shitting on his team for not winning the game every time, like losing was never an option when he queued up.

Glad you enjoy it! 😊

Homie coming in clutch with skin money

​@PekinWoof also something small and it's not really a criticism just a thought, garen e scales hard with attack speed so you might have been stronger in the early phase wits zerks+hearthbound are instead of tiamat since clear isn't really a problem for garen.

10 dollars is what I would expect to pay for a pack of 10 skins

It's one skin, Michael, what could it cost? $600?

@@dhumphreys Ahri new skin be like

I thought the exact same thing. The timing is impeccable

This comment aged well

You were right!! It’s only 500 dollars

are you guys trolling?

@@balrg no, the new immortal ahri skin is $500-540(taxbased) after conversion

The problem is the metrics tell a different story. Pekin had stated in a video long ago that his videos that he doesn't pop off in don't usually do as well according you his YT analytics. I like Pekins stuff no matter what he does, but when your livelihood depends on videos doing well, he has to lean into that.

He's so pine marten coded

He's actually evil and not your brother. Especially not your older brother.

Xpetu plays while explaining his plays, too. Pekin and Xpetu are my only league content creator that I watch. Both of them are pretty chill and positive.

@@lupinusaria2316 omg i met a random person who recommended xpetu but i couldnt rememeber the name for the life of me. thanks for the recommendation!

​@@lupinusaria2316 does he play anything aside from shen? I like pekin because he has variety instead of being a otp

@@ahmaddaniel6500He'll often do learning "arcs" of other champs. Some recent examples are Talon mid/jg, Jax, and Udyr jg

also it might have changed but you used to be supposed to rush attack speed boots no matter what. And to suffer until you reach level 6 and try to scale and play for the late game

The playstyle differs significantly with runes, too. With grasp, You poke. With phase, You scale. With conq, You fight early.

That is completely right. Aside from W you can reset AA with every spell and you SHOULD. You can also gap close with an AA if you cancel your E - havent seen any garens do this and so my opponent is never prepared for that. Also use Q to get rid of slows. Fog of war is your friend. if you get ganked you often can just kill the jungler for 1f1 or even kill top aswell afterwards. Always make good use of the right runes+summs/blade or shield - highly matchup dependend. Ban kayle its basically unwinable. Anything else with the right runes is winable! Even Vayne/Quinn/Varus. Just dont die and you will outscale for example darius by level 7 aswell. I win around 80% of early game with garen. Everything after lane is much more difficult! Best is just push bottom non stop with the lead from early game to create baron opportunities or push to inhib. MS is your most important stat! 1.3M Mastery garen😂

@@MsDany79 How do you mean that you reset aa with E? Only Q is aa reset

Q is the only AA reset. Nonsense to claim otherwise

But also understanding almost immediately after making a mistake what you're intended to do by theorycrafting his strengths. Playing passive as garen and scaling like a Sion just to split push and run down squishies is exactly how high elo Garen's play.

It was ME

I mean he’s still a challenger player lol.

Wouldn't it be a shame if a skin costs, like, 500 bucks or smth?

Temple of the dog

wait there was a version of garen with a point and click knockup? damn TIL

He’s def balanced, with a point and click silence and a point and click ultimate and a spinny ability that doesnt get cancelled when silenced 😂

@@ergoblaze A lot of abilities don't get canceled after you've started them. The point-and-click silence is melee ranged. His ultimate is a point-and-click, but his other abilities being weaker than normal makes up for it.

@@giovannidozzi the point and click silence gives him movement speed so him being melee often doesnt matter especially in top lane where 70% of the games youll face a melee champ, his ult is pretty much instant death if he gets on top of you as a squishy (and he's a bruiser), he has surprisingly good burst as a champ that builds attack speed, he's very tanky so unless you're ahead of him you're not gonna be able to outdps him, all of his abilities aa reset and since his ult is point and click you can't flash or dodge it. When he's behind, he sucks until he has 3 items, when he's ahead there is 0 counterplay which is at least unlike riven or something where you can outplay her if youre good enough. If a Garen is on top of you and you aren't a tank or bruiser you are probably dead. Just yesterday I was playing qiyana, i was 10/1, a garen waited in a bush to try to kill me, I reacted accordingly and full combod him and he went to around 40% hp with no armour items, at which point he flash Q'd on top of me and got me to half hp with E and then ulted me just as I got grass Q to stealth. I press tab and see he's 1/7. Garen into range sucks dogwater but garen in melee feels horrible to play against unless youre a bruiser whos way ahead of him.

@@Defnotdiablo Yes, his Q gives movement speed, but it isn't anything as near oppressive as Naafiri W, Akali R, Sylas E, or Yasuo/Yone E and Q3. Flash his Q, and then you're alright. If he chases you down, then he is running through a whole team, so one of your teammates with have cc to stop him. Sure, his W can block cc, but only once for a short period with a 15s cool down.

Agreed. Garen's simplicity is a bit of a double edged sword because it leaves him really ride-or-die on macro decision making which isn't something one can really learn overnight. He is also really good for teaching patience in lane which is a major virtue in top lane that most players lack (forcing a state of non-interaction is a really good, though boring, Garen playstyle).

Really depends on the lane. This champion has built in damage reduction, sustain, armour shred and an execute...and that's on top of his ridiculous movement speed and his silence. He straight up shits on a lot of lanes. Illaoi just isn't one of them.

I've actually decided not to comment on this as its a lot to explain even within the first 5 minutes of the game. I'de say play it more and just get a feel for your spikes honestly.

also as much as I love phase rush, into bruisers like Illaoi who you have to contest to not get ran down, conq is just required. Illaoi hates when the wave isn't in her favor so dominating early against her matters a looot

Truly last note I'm going to make its almost not optional whether or not you take Berserker's Grieves. It just gives too much damage to Garen.

Just finished watching the first game you actually did way better than you think you did in mid to endgame m8. That is in fact Garen gaming, Early game was painful for sure though