Yes and no. His jumping around animations are great, but I found out that he also gets stuck/stun-lock. The end of the battle shows it well, normally Azazel would just destroy within seconds all the single entities but his animation get stopped sometime when he's in a blob (hence the importance of the mortis engine effect and ghorst trait)
@@mepassistant but i think you don't need to let him stand in the middle of the blob , just fly him around with the landing and dashing animation, he wont get surrounded and actually kill things just as fast because those animations hit things more reliably.
@@mepassistant yes and no. If you're bad at micro or you just don't want to go into microing him then yes he will get stuck from time to time etc. But if you micro him good his animations will destroy everything. He got basically the best fighting animations
I'm the one who submitted this doomstack (I did the Mannfred one in Warhammer 2). Here's some details. I chose Azazel because he was ticking many important boxes: spellcaster (even if a meh lore), high mobility (flying+speed), small entity size, bonus to physical resist, high AP damage, a passive debuff and a mortis engine effect. But I was surprised by how far I was able to boost him in this. The sword of Slaanesh was a (very) nice surprise, I had no idea you could get it from the Eye of Chaos dilemma. On top of the damage boost and ward save, it saved me from waiting (a very long time) for Gotrek to appear to become unbreakable. Before that, I was planning to use the Axe of Khorne that gives up to +25% base and AP damage (based on kills made). From there, it was a matter of optimising the trait cap so that I would have the absolute max of legendary traits (19 is the absolute cap, even if you're not yet at the total trait cap) and as little “garbage” ones as possible. I was only missing the protector one for extra melee defense. For the final legendary trait I chose Ghorst (poison attacks) over Valkia (melee attack and some AP) because I figured that I had already reached absurd melee potential and it was better to indirectly reduce the damage taken in melee. Something that Legend didn’t mention: I had chaos gifts giving Azazel further battle abilities (daemonette summons, which for some reason didn't appear here), siege attacker (but useless now with 2.1 patch), increased movement range and research boosting Azazel’s speed. As a full disclosure, I used a mod (for infinite movement, research rate, etc.) to be able to collect all lord traits, but I didn't use anything that adds skill points, modifies items, spawn items/followers or anything. This doomstack is purely theoritical and it would be pretty much impossible to reproduce in normal conditions. My objective is just to see how far you can push some high potential lords without the sword of Khaine. So yeah I used the infinite movement mod to avoid spending a year and a few thousands turn trying to reach that. Legend had mentioned in a past video that he didn't care if mods were used to make a doomstack as long as it's not adding skill points, items, etc.
i was gonna say, all those traits have to be edited or something… would have been easier to edit the save file with TW save editor though. dont know if it already supports the latest patch of wh3 but you can add traits there too
@@DerRusher All traits were collected in-game, no editing of the game files or modding to add them. I actually had to have armies to protect some factions from extinction until I could "harvest" them. I was also testing around the trait cap both in general and for legendary traits. I made a list of top priority traits to get and then made some choices on what to boost at the end. I even had Azazel hide in some corner of the map so that he wouldn't get "garbage" traits passively. But yeah it's a super heavily manipulated build and impossible to do in real conditions.
@@mepassistant are there other good enchanted item for him? I noticed he already have regen so more regen would only be useful in limited circumstances.
If you could do a kugath one man doomstack, that would be really fun, but challenging. Probably festus would be better, because he s smaller and also has that insane morties engine damage
You can get up to 40 defeat traits, because that's the total number of trait-slots available to any character (a hard-coded number too, much sadness), but you are *never* going to get that many because the moment you start getting even the smallest amount of progress towards any non-defeat trait will make it start taking up a slot, even if it's a completely useless trait. 'Tis why I play with the trait-manager mod, lets me remove the useless traits that my lords accidentally start progressing on.
Actually no. According to my tests you can't go (without mods or modifying game files) higher than 19 defeat traits, even if you're not at the global trait cap.
@@mepassistant 40 is literally the hardcoded trait limit (and defeat traits are considered no different than normal traits). But as OP was saying is that doing anything, literally attacking/defending/idling/ending turn nets you progress towards traits which counts towards the cap. If you used a trait manager (which doesn't affect the limit because 40 is the hardcoded limit) you could hit 40 defeat traits without issue. You prob accumulated a lot of random stuff while cruising across the world.
In truth, even if you use a manager to toss out unwanted traits it would depend on how CA orders the priority of the "trait gained"-scripts; which of defeat traits or "other-battle-related"-traits has the higher one? As such we'd likely hit a limit at 39 defeat-traits unless you started using the manager to add traits instead of just removing them.
@@EdinLG Using the trait manager mod, you can see that just taking out the starter army and/or city that face off against at the start of a new campaign will start progress toward 5 traits at very least including the very shitty "hates X race"
It does... Sadly. Ok ok, being mean to the person is not the intention. He means it in good fun. But it lacks any punch line, its so... Low brow. On the same level of people who post a phrase exactly from the video. He is free to post whatever he wants though. Things happen on the internet haha
@@pablopopodopaulos4931 you’re right, except that pedantic isn’t the word you’re looking for. Pedantic means unnecessarily nitpicky and fastidious. See? I’m being pedantic right now, lol But seriously, you’re right when you say childish and it’s in more ways than one. These kinds of “sketch comedy” comments fucking suck. “Ha ha, wow, could you even IMAGINE people saying THAT isn’t that WACKY oho aha I can see it now and it’s hiLARious!” Like please, I’m begging you, stop trying to write funny skits. You aren’t a part of Monty Python, you have no comedic instincts or timing, you write like a marginally literate 12 year old and I’m getting secondhand embarrassment just from reading this crap.
@@pablopopodopaulos4931 The way this one was written makes me think it was actually written by a child. "The demon blasts them" ?? Probs some 13 year old who has seen other cringe comments like this tried to make his own. I'm sure when he comes back to 40 upvotes or whatever he will have a wee smile on his face maybe he can bring it up to his friends at school that he once got his comment upvoted on a youtube video
Aoe spells hit so much harder on ongoing melee blobs. The entities stack up shoulder to shoulder and don't really seek to avoid the incoming spell when in combat.
@@Witch_King yep plus you can stack different types of regen. Bel'akor for example can have 3 types of regen, one from his skill tree that gives up to 0.4 hps, the crown at 0.2 and Isabella's regen which is 0.1
@@kingo192 Back in WH2 I think you could get Taurox like four different sources of regen that all stacked. Isabella's trait, the trolllskin cloak, the beastmen regen/vigor item, and his own in combat regen for like 24hp/sec or more.
This one man doomstack perfectly represents Azazel and Slaanesh as a whole. Indulge in yourself to an absolute ridiculous degree and forego everyone else.
Azazel was my first campaign with the DLC, he’s incredibly strong on campaign. I’m trying Archaon now but I think my goal is going to be to march straight to Kislev to liberate him as soon as possible
@@blooddrunkbruce Strong Idea. My plan is similar, with it basically having two armies, one expanding towards the north side of the map towards Sigvald and Valkia, and Archaon going down south to get Azazel and Festus (mainly for defeat traits). Good luck!
@Legendoftotalwar The person does have very, very little "filler traits" and this is how traits work: If you go into chaos territory, for example, you get the trait for that corruption as an invisible trait after 1 turn, then it starts counting until the trait actually shows up. Same is true for all traits that require you doing things multiple times or for multiple turns (like looter, lords over asur and so on). So you normally get lots of unfinished (and therefore hidden) "filler traits" wich block you from getting more legendary lord traits, but those traits can still be completed so you can still get those traits you already begun getting. A good way to make that visible is the "Cpecifics Trait Manager" Mod, where you can see those traits greyed out until you actually get them. (you dont actually need to use the mod to add traits to see this. In this mod, for example, you can always see the bretonnian vows as invisible traits (wich is how they work) wich means, bretonnian lords always have those trait slots blocked, and having a "cheesed lord" will block 4-5 of your trait slots. You can also simply create cheesed bretonnian Lords from the get-go. To understand how traits actually work i recommend having a look at this mod. It really brightens up how traits work and how to maximize them. The way to get a high number of defeat traits is to not do things that start traits from showing up (wich is, admitedly, not too easy to do). With this mod, you can actually get 40 Lord defeat traits without breaking the basic rules of the Game. Theres just on exception from this rules, and this is bretonnias Negative Chivalry traits wich WILL overwrite existing traits. So as you normally do multiple things, like beeing in march stance, looting, fighting different enemies and so on, you collect lots of unfinished traits wich count to your trait maximum and will not go away for new traits. This is why you sometimes can't get any more legendary lord defeat traits, but still get normal traits as you actually have them, they were just invisible until you completed their requirements. From a look to Azazels Trait List here, i suspect this is actually modded. Its really hard to get so many legendary lord defeat traits in a row without having filler traits in between. Either that or the person knew how traits work and prevented Azazel from doing anything that gives a hidden trait at all cost. cheers!
I indeed did all I could to prevent garbage trait to appear, even if I had no idea about the "hidden traits" system (although I guessed some elements of it from my tests). For instance I noticed that putting Azazel in encamp stance in "neutral" territory was not bringing any trait, so I camped him most of the time there, to remain far from cities or other stuff that could bring traits. Other thing I did was for as long as possible I would not fight the same race more than twice, because I figured that a third time might trigger the leadership trait, etc. I definitely reached the trait cap through the hidden traits, and from my new understanding of the trait system (thank you comments), I get that you could probably get beyond 19 defeat traits, although I think that would be extremely hard without using specific mods given the amount of care I already took to reach 19. All that to say that I didn't use a mod to add or remove traits.
@@mepassistant Thanks for your detailed answer :) It's definitely a very good effort to get 19 defeat traits. Its really hard to not do anything that gives traits.
Out of the 4 champions, Azazel is my favourite fighter He has that stomp landing attack that ensures he hits enemies properly and he frequently does that lunge attack in melee, which makes him quite slippery. Also has inherent Mortis Engine damage effect in his Serpentine Tail. Literally the only "bad" thing about him IMO is that he has Lore of Slaanesh.
Man, lore of Slaanesh isn't even bad. It may not be top tier, but what is these days? The three best in WH2 were fire, life and vampires IMO, and since burning head was nerfed (with flame storm the only good spell now I'd say), that leaves Life and Vampires. They are still good, in a way they're even better since healing got big buffs, but Life is only available on Order factions, and vampires is only on two factions. Got to make do when you're not playing them. Back to the lore of Slaanesh, Lash is good damage and comes out fast - also works well to break infantry lines for your chariots, it has a nice passive (considering your whole army is probably melee), Phantasmagoria on Azazel can help you break enemy units immediately and Slicing Shards is an okay bombardment spell for its cost. I'll admit that most of the spells are a bit overpriced, Pavane in particular, but Slaanesh isn't a caster-focused faction, it's a melee focused one with a heavy emphasis on speed and high damage and the lore reflects that nicely. Hell in a good 90% of battles you will literally never run out of winds despite the low efficiency if you're using it right. Anyway, at least its not the lore of Stealth - where despite being one of the worst lores in WH2 they still felt justified to nerf Black Whirlwind...for some reason.
@@spookydan39 Lore of Nurgle is in the new Top 3 imo. The Passive beeing an Armywide Heal with a cheap Windspell that you can spam makes your Infantry take bearly any Damage. A big Heal and a Bombardment, Boil or what its called, if the Enemy blobs up is all you need.
I haven't watched this through yet, but man I accidentally did this in my first campaign after the update. Azazel got Slaanesh's Blade super early, so early that I didn't even do his quest battle. He feels like a Malagor that's better in melee. EDIT: Idk if you knew or already saw, Slicing Shards can hit flying units. I went up against Cathay and a ton of longma riders surrounded Azazel and he blew them up with shards. Also, he gets a skill that allows casting magic to heal him. The Slaanesh Sorcerers can also get that. Azazel is REALLY strong.
BTW, you can click on the "Abilities" bar to switch from a drop-down list of stats, to a drop-down list of abilities, so you don't have to parse tightly packed icons (and vice versa, when you click on the "Stats" tab).
Azazel being a smaller entity has really made him just skyrocket above most chaos lords for me. Daemon princes and even belakor feel way too cumbersome compared to Azazel, Malagor, and Valkia. You'd think someone as tall as a three story house could just walk through a bunch of soldiers but more often than not I find that they just can't even move as soon as they hit melee. Compare that to Azazel and Valkia somersaulting through lines without breaking a sweat.
Azazel has the most OP economy IMO. If you speed run Vassals in the north, you can easily field 2-3 armies and then just steamroll Kislev and the other factions; plus Throt is your best friend and will ally with you by turn 30
Azazel does get hurt if u stand and fight strong magic weapons lord if you dont hold the blade of slannesh (or SoK of coz) But the thing i like about Azazel is you don't actually need to stack all these defeat traits and sword of slannesh for him to quickly be able to sort of one man doom stack because of his mobility and animation. I personally like to give him a banner of swiftness, let my other lord use the slannesh blade and just cycle charge everything to death. He doesn't need to just stand there and get surrounded like typical 1 man lords. Also he actually have self heal on casting (5 wind whip or debuff are good) so he technically also doesn't need the regen crown and can heal pretty well with the demon chalice one time heal and has other buff when u need it. I've found that crown to be quite rare for some reason.
Legend you should see The video about leadership bombing with Azazel. He can rout anything with the demon blade and right spell combo and a rear charge. I think that Zerkovitch posted it. Fascinating cheese 🧀
When u can have the Blade of Slanesh u dont need to bomb leadership anymore... but yes its strong, but Azazel is so strong that i forget the most time to get the Demonblade with level 15.
I've been playing Malekith on IE recently (2.0 version) and I'm 100% sure, that his sword DOES grant him magical attacs... Also, it would've been much bigger challenge if he would've went against Black Ark army, since the Captain is able to give magical attacs to his entire army...
I play a Azazel campaign was testing a bit what a good start with Azazel looks like. Get your first town in turn 1, make war with the minor faction that sit above big orthodoxy... turn 3 u can capture one of this settlements and u can sell it for a defense alliance to the big orthodoxy. P.s: U have to disband all norsca vasals to seduce orthodoxie. P.s.s: Big fun when u can have kislev, imperial and wood elf vassals with extra physical resist and immune against psychologie.
Literally facing a demi-god who just killed Malekith in mere seconds, the strongest dark elf leading your entire race, yet dark elf spearman: "Die weakling!"
I played an entire domination campaign as Azazel. Super fun Llord! Edit: A secret strength about him is his leadership defect abilities. He can leadership bomb so effectively. He gets massive discounts to phantasmgoria
the total max trait cap is actually at 40, not sure about specific kinds, but Cpecific's Mod that I used to test some other mods explains how there is a hard cap of 40 for all traits. Some LLs also have [HIDDEN] traits the don't show u but still take spots.
If you look on the right at his Inventory when you’re going over his traits. This guy has 6 talismans of preservation on turn 85. It’s interesting to see a lords Max potential - but he probably did cheat and give himself traits and items
Not sure about that, Talismans of Preservation seem really, really common in IE for some reason. During my nurgle campaign, I had ~8 of them before turn 100. I kept them and had one on most of my lords by turn ~200
this, and the fact that he went on all 4 corners of the map to get all the traits by turn 85, without ever getting the forced march trait is really sus
Even against demons I don't see him losing much. Tzeentch would be strongest against him, but azazel will also hit through a units barrier in a singular hit. Dueling a single entity like skarbrand however will be an absolute walk in the park, azazel getting 180+ melee attack against skarbrand (92% hit at 123md skarbrand) and with 112 md skarbrand needs at least 85ma to match the 8% to hit chance. Because Azazel is a flying character, characters like skarbrand don't get a charge, just about guaranteeing that units don't get their charge bonus. Assuming skarbrand takes 10 hits, azazel will on average receive less then 1 hit. He has enough power to duel skarbrand 10 times on just his healing alone. tzeentch is most dangerous because there's a lot of magical ranged damage in that faction. And even though it's counted as small, it's larger then most small entities. OKAY EDIT: I just saw he farmed some defeat traits to get 45% missile resist. Combined with the ward save, that means he gets 90% resisistance against tzeentch' missiled. That means that, in my opinion at least, he can deal with any army. 4 armies of just exalted bloodletters or bloodthirsters might become hard, but everything else he can beat no problem. 20:08 excuse me? I also put in A LOT of effort into the teclis one. (I also put effort into the mazdamundi one, but there I used console commands for unlimited movement)
My Zhao Ming campaign, dude is so OP as well. i have around 50% ward save and another 40% physical resistance. I send him solo at any army and they surround him then use that dragon bomb spell and that thing kills like everything. Its alot of fun.
Crazy hard work must go in it and i personal like azael the most of the new 4 Legendary lords nice too sea him so strong!!! He is in multiplayer very very strong too because of his leadership debuffs wich can around -32 too max -40(when the enemy has no fear or terror).
Azazel seemed more like a leadership debuff lord to me at first, but I’m surprised at how effective he can be in combat, too, especially for a Slannesh lord
Yeah the other Slaneesh LL is Nakai and he fuckin slaps too. Not counting on modded one-man doomstacks and overthetop cheese, those two might me some of the best combat guys in the entire LL roster. So yeah... Those cheeks are getting red when Slaneesh lords come in
According to Enoch (biblical figure) Azazel led the Watchers (fallen angels) to rebel against God and encouraged the Watchers to agree to a pact to despoil creation. Lore is so cool.
He's basically the only good new WOC lord, and the slaaneshy WOC are mostly based around their lords. They dont have allthe debuffs that the daemons do in the army, so its all on the lord. Sigvald is pretty good too as he gives +15% speed to everyone. Its the fact that he is both small, and flying that makes Azazel work, or at least i thought until i tried valkia, who dies when she gets hit with a wet noodle. She has the same landing aninimation as well, but overcasting shards is better IMO because whilst the dps is the same, its much larger area
How do you get such high ward saves? is it farming for equipment and hoping to get lucky and get specific ones? or are there particular legandary lords to kill for there death traits?
18:16 it's a total trait cap of 40 so if you avoid getting too many of the basic bitch traits you can get more than 10 defeat traits... Or he used the trait manager mod to remove traits he didn't want including passively leveld up ones like X victories and Y Defeats bnased garbage +5 leadership stuff.
@LegendofTotalWar you guys. theres a mod that allows you to assign traits to your lords. You pick them out of a list and apply them very easily. Cpecific's Traits Manager. Im sure he just installed it, set the traits and then uninstalled it.
Damn I was thinking of the DLC lords, Festus would be the best one man doomstack. But with all the abilities and being able to get slaanesh blade, Azazel seriously looks like a great contender. Plus his in combat animations are actually really good for clearing out chaff. I've beaten his campaign and his attacks are kinda like the tomb scorpion in being able to move and have a huge hitbox on their attacks.
Having played Vilitch, I was surprised to find he also seems like a very strong combatant -- although it would take ages for him to deal with single entities. In the final battle of the CoC campaign, he literally did not take a single point of damage, despite tanking a good amount of units (including a Shaggoth and the final boss at the same time, along with Chosen), because he just regens his barrier too quickly if you boost it with Tech and the Gift of Tzeentch. He also gets surprisingly high MA and MD for a caster, even without defeat trait hunting.
Yes, as explained in my other comment, I used a mod to have unlimited movement, research, etc. But no skill/item/trait spawn, I collected the traits manually. Legend said that he was ok with mods for doomstacks as long as they don't spawn things or things like that. It's a purely theoritical doomstack.
@@mepassistant your chatting bs, why would you add a mod which adds all that then grind it out? you clearly just added the items in because it makes no sense to add all that then grind out the items? nah
Legend is talking about defeat traits and Azazel in the background is like:
"It was exhilarating!"
"They never stood a chance!:
I feel like Azazel's animations are really good for combat. He's got the same landing animation as Malagor too.
Yes and no. His jumping around animations are great, but I found out that he also gets stuck/stun-lock. The end of the battle shows it well, normally Azazel would just destroy within seconds all the single entities but his animation get stopped sometime when he's in a blob (hence the importance of the mortis engine effect and ghorst trait)
He's also got a voice like melting chocolate, which is always a plus
@@mepassistant but i think you don't need to let him stand in the middle of the blob , just fly him around with the landing and dashing animation, he wont get surrounded and actually kill things just as fast because those animations hit things more reliably.
@@mepassistant yes and no. If you're bad at micro or you just don't want to go into microing him then yes he will get stuck from time to time etc. But if you micro him good his animations will destroy everything. He got basically the best fighting animations
@@mepassistant if he gets stuck in a blob he can just use the whip of slaanesh to create a gap
5:03 "this spell takes quite a while to... get off" In a true Slaneeshian fashion
I'm the one who submitted this doomstack (I did the Mannfred one in Warhammer 2). Here's some details.
I chose Azazel because he was ticking many important boxes: spellcaster (even if a meh lore), high mobility (flying+speed), small entity size, bonus to physical resist, high AP damage, a passive debuff and a mortis engine effect. But I was surprised by how far I was able to boost him in this.
The sword of Slaanesh was a (very) nice surprise, I had no idea you could get it from the Eye of Chaos dilemma. On top of the damage boost and ward save, it saved me from waiting (a very long time) for Gotrek to appear to become unbreakable. Before that, I was planning to use the Axe of Khorne that gives up to +25% base and AP damage (based on kills made).
From there, it was a matter of optimising the trait cap so that I would have the absolute max of legendary traits (19 is the absolute cap, even if you're not yet at the total trait cap) and as little “garbage” ones as possible. I was only missing the protector one for extra melee defense. For the final legendary trait I chose Ghorst (poison attacks) over Valkia (melee attack and some AP) because I figured that I had already reached absurd melee potential and it was better to indirectly reduce the damage taken in melee.
Something that Legend didn’t mention: I had chaos gifts giving Azazel further battle abilities (daemonette summons, which for some reason didn't appear here), siege attacker (but useless now with 2.1 patch), increased movement range and research boosting Azazel’s speed.
As a full disclosure, I used a mod (for infinite movement, research rate, etc.) to be able to collect all lord traits, but I didn't use anything that adds skill points, modifies items, spawn items/followers or anything.
This doomstack is purely theoritical and it would be pretty much impossible to reproduce in normal conditions. My objective is just to see how far you can push some high potential lords without the sword of Khaine. So yeah I used the infinite movement mod to avoid spending a year and a few thousands turn trying to reach that. Legend had mentioned in a past video that he didn't care if mods were used to make a doomstack as long as it's not adding skill points, items, etc.
i was gonna say, all those traits have to be edited or something… would have been easier to edit the save file with TW save editor though. dont know if it already supports the latest patch of wh3 but you can add traits there too
@@DerRusher All traits were collected in-game, no editing of the game files or modding to add them. I actually had to have armies to protect some factions from extinction until I could "harvest" them. I was also testing around the trait cap both in general and for legendary traits. I made a list of top priority traits to get and then made some choices on what to boost at the end. I even had Azazel hide in some corner of the map so that he wouldn't get "garbage" traits passively. But yeah it's a super heavily manipulated build and impossible to do in real conditions.
I've had that happen too (the summons not showing up in battle)
@@mepassistant are there other good enchanted item for him? I noticed he already have regen so more regen would only be useful in limited circumstances.
If you could do a kugath one man doomstack, that would be really fun, but challenging. Probably festus would be better, because he s smaller and also has that insane morties engine damage
You can get up to 40 defeat traits, because that's the total number of trait-slots available to any character (a hard-coded number too, much sadness), but you are *never* going to get that many because the moment you start getting even the smallest amount of progress towards any non-defeat trait will make it start taking up a slot, even if it's a completely useless trait.
'Tis why I play with the trait-manager mod, lets me remove the useless traits that my lords accidentally start progressing on.
Actually no. According to my tests you can't go (without mods or modifying game files) higher than 19 defeat traits, even if you're not at the global trait cap.
@@mepassistant 40 is literally the hardcoded trait limit (and defeat traits are considered no different than normal traits). But as OP was saying is that doing anything, literally attacking/defending/idling/ending turn nets you progress towards traits which counts towards the cap. If you used a trait manager (which doesn't affect the limit because 40 is the hardcoded limit) you could hit 40 defeat traits without issue. You prob accumulated a lot of random stuff while cruising across the world.
In truth, even if you use a manager to toss out unwanted traits it would depend on how CA orders the priority of the "trait gained"-scripts; which of defeat traits or "other-battle-related"-traits has the higher one?
As such we'd likely hit a limit at 39 defeat-traits unless you started using the manager to add traits instead of just removing them.
@@mepassistant The dude literally has 20 defeat traits in this video.
@@EdinLG Using the trait manager mod, you can see that just taking out the starter army and/or city that face off against at the start of a new campaign will start progress toward 5 traits at very least including the very shitty "hates X race"
"- We are facing demons!
- How much?
- One, but...
- Blast it!"
*The demon blasts them*
I don't know why but this type of comment seems childish and pedantic
It does... Sadly. Ok ok, being mean to the person is not the intention. He means it in good fun.
But it lacks any punch line, its so... Low brow. On the same level of people who post a phrase exactly from the video.
He is free to post whatever he wants though. Things happen on the internet haha
@@pablopopodopaulos4931 you’re right, except that pedantic isn’t the word you’re looking for. Pedantic means unnecessarily nitpicky and fastidious. See? I’m being pedantic right now, lol
But seriously, you’re right when you say childish and it’s in more ways than one. These kinds of “sketch comedy” comments fucking suck. “Ha ha, wow, could you even IMAGINE people saying THAT isn’t that WACKY oho aha I can see it now and it’s hiLARious!” Like please, I’m begging you, stop trying to write funny skits. You aren’t a part of Monty Python, you have no comedic instincts or timing, you write like a marginally literate 12 year old and I’m getting secondhand embarrassment just from reading this crap.
@@pablopopodopaulos4931 The way this one was written makes me think it was actually written by a child. "The demon blasts them" ?? Probs some 13 year old who has seen other cringe comments like this tried to make his own. I'm sure when he comes back to 40 upvotes or whatever he will have a wee smile on his face maybe he can bring it up to his friends at school that he once got his comment upvoted on a youtube video
@@Bungoblasterimo you're possibly overthinking it. It could be as simple as the poster is just a c unt.
Aoe spells hit so much harder on ongoing melee blobs. The entities stack up shoulder to shoulder and don't really seek to avoid the incoming spell when in combat.
Meta in Warhammer 2: farming Isabella's trait
Meta in Warhammer 3: getting regen item.
Azazel didn’t actually need it. He got regen on spell cast already.
@@ศกรโสมาภา not that reliable source though. You'll run out of WoM eventually
@@Witch_King yep plus you can stack different types of regen. Bel'akor for example can have 3 types of regen, one from his skill tree that gives up to 0.4 hps, the crown at 0.2 and Isabella's regen which is 0.1
How do you get the regen crown?
@@kingo192 Back in WH2 I think you could get Taurox like four different sources of regen that all stacked. Isabella's trait, the trolllskin cloak, the beastmen regen/vigor item, and his own in combat regen for like 24hp/sec or more.
This one man doomstack perfectly represents Azazel and Slaanesh as a whole. Indulge in yourself to an absolute ridiculous degree and forego everyone else.
I've found that the falling shards spell does a surprising amount of damage against large single entities, large units in general.
These kind of spell has always been relatively good against dragons and such
I cast it on my aspiring champions and they took so much damage
same with the fire variant, could delete a dread saurian in wh2 if hit correctly
it does say ~90 base damage on the shards with explosive damage on top. plenty of shards dropping on the sky too, its a good spell!
Azazel was my first campaign with the DLC, he’s incredibly strong on campaign. I’m trying Archaon now but I think my goal is going to be to march straight to Kislev to liberate him as soon as possible
The new update is great. Being able confederate other warriors of chaos is amazing. I’m playing Archaon now and just got to Sigvalds lands.
@@blooddrunkbruce Strong Idea. My plan is similar, with it basically having two armies, one expanding towards the north side of the map towards Sigvald and Valkia, and Archaon going down south to get Azazel and Festus (mainly for defeat traits). Good luck!
@Legendoftotalwar The person does have very, very little "filler traits" and this is how traits work: If you go into chaos territory, for example, you get the trait for that corruption as an invisible trait after 1 turn, then it starts counting until the trait actually shows up. Same is true for all traits that require you doing things multiple times or for multiple turns (like looter, lords over asur and so on). So you normally get lots of unfinished (and therefore hidden) "filler traits" wich block you from getting more legendary lord traits, but those traits can still be completed so you can still get those traits you already begun getting.
A good way to make that visible is the "Cpecifics Trait Manager" Mod, where you can see those traits greyed out until you actually get them. (you dont actually need to use the mod to add traits to see this. In this mod, for example, you can always see the bretonnian vows as invisible traits (wich is how they work) wich means, bretonnian lords always have those trait slots blocked, and having a "cheesed lord" will block 4-5 of your trait slots. You can also simply create cheesed bretonnian Lords from the get-go.
To understand how traits actually work i recommend having a look at this mod. It really brightens up how traits work and how to maximize them. The way to get a high number of defeat traits is to not do things that start traits from showing up (wich is, admitedly, not too easy to do). With this mod, you can actually get 40 Lord defeat traits without breaking the basic rules of the Game. Theres just on exception from this rules, and this is bretonnias Negative Chivalry traits wich WILL overwrite existing traits.
So as you normally do multiple things, like beeing in march stance, looting, fighting different enemies and so on, you collect lots of unfinished traits wich count to your trait maximum and will not go away for new traits. This is why you sometimes can't get any more legendary lord defeat traits, but still get normal traits as you actually have them, they were just invisible until you completed their requirements.
From a look to Azazels Trait List here, i suspect this is actually modded. Its really hard to get so many legendary lord defeat traits in a row without having filler traits in between. Either that or the person knew how traits work and prevented Azazel from doing anything that gives a hidden trait at all cost.
cheers!
I indeed did all I could to prevent garbage trait to appear, even if I had no idea about the "hidden traits" system (although I guessed some elements of it from my tests). For instance I noticed that putting Azazel in encamp stance in "neutral" territory was not bringing any trait, so I camped him most of the time there, to remain far from cities or other stuff that could bring traits. Other thing I did was for as long as possible I would not fight the same race more than twice, because I figured that a third time might trigger the leadership trait, etc.
I definitely reached the trait cap through the hidden traits, and from my new understanding of the trait system (thank you comments), I get that you could probably get beyond 19 defeat traits, although I think that would be extremely hard without using specific mods given the amount of care I already took to reach 19.
All that to say that I didn't use a mod to add or remove traits.
@@mepassistant Thanks for your detailed answer :) It's definitely a very good effort to get 19 defeat traits. Its really hard to not do anything that gives traits.
@@Grails_Knight Trait manager is fun for making absurd things though since it's not limited to just defeat traits.
@@DIEGhostfish Its one of the most versatile mods i know. you can do a lot of fun stuff with it.
Out of the 4 champions, Azazel is my favourite fighter
He has that stomp landing attack that ensures he hits enemies properly and he frequently does that lunge attack in melee, which makes him quite slippery.
Also has inherent Mortis Engine damage effect in his Serpentine Tail.
Literally the only "bad" thing about him IMO is that he has Lore of Slaanesh.
Man, lore of Slaanesh isn't even bad.
It may not be top tier, but what is these days? The three best in WH2 were fire, life and vampires IMO, and since burning head was nerfed (with flame storm the only good spell now I'd say), that leaves Life and Vampires. They are still good, in a way they're even better since healing got big buffs, but Life is only available on Order factions, and vampires is only on two factions. Got to make do when you're not playing them.
Back to the lore of Slaanesh,
Lash is good damage and comes out fast - also works well to break infantry lines for your chariots, it has a nice passive (considering your whole army is probably melee), Phantasmagoria on Azazel can help you break enemy units immediately and Slicing Shards is an okay bombardment spell for its cost.
I'll admit that most of the spells are a bit overpriced, Pavane in particular, but Slaanesh isn't a caster-focused faction, it's a melee focused one with a heavy emphasis on speed and high damage and the lore reflects that nicely. Hell in a good 90% of battles you will literally never run out of winds despite the low efficiency if you're using it right.
Anyway, at least its not the lore of Stealth - where despite being one of the worst lores in WH2 they still felt justified to nerf Black Whirlwind...for some reason.
Imagine him having lore of shadows/metal instead of Slaanesh. He would faceroll his opposition even more.
@@spookydan39 Lore of Nurgle is in the new Top 3 imo. The Passive beeing an Armywide Heal with a cheap Windspell that you can spam makes your Infantry take bearly any Damage. A big Heal and a Bombardment, Boil or what its called, if the Enemy blobs up is all you need.
@@spookydan39 Fire is still amazing thanks to Flaming Sword of Rhuin
@@shalax7881 Buff spells are still inferior to vortex and wind spells though, per WoM to dmg
I haven't watched this through yet, but man I accidentally did this in my first campaign after the update. Azazel got Slaanesh's Blade super early, so early that I didn't even do his quest battle. He feels like a Malagor that's better in melee.
EDIT: Idk if you knew or already saw, Slicing Shards can hit flying units. I went up against Cathay and a ton of longma riders surrounded Azazel and he blew them up with shards. Also, he gets a skill that allows casting magic to heal him. The Slaanesh Sorcerers can also get that. Azazel is REALLY strong.
BTW, you can click on the "Abilities" bar to switch from a drop-down list of stats, to a drop-down list of abilities, so you don't have to parse tightly packed icons (and vice versa, when you click on the "Stats" tab).
Azazel being a smaller entity has really made him just skyrocket above most chaos lords for me. Daemon princes and even belakor feel way too cumbersome compared to Azazel, Malagor, and Valkia. You'd think someone as tall as a three story house could just walk through a bunch of soldiers but more often than not I find that they just can't even move as soon as they hit melee.
Compare that to Azazel and Valkia somersaulting through lines without breaking a sweat.
I can't wait for Legend to play Azazel he is so powerful and fun to play with
Even if a heavy hitter comes at him, that damage reflection and additional 20% ward save slaps.
Azazel has the most OP economy IMO. If you speed run Vassals in the north, you can easily field 2-3 armies and then just steamroll Kislev and the other factions; plus Throt is your best friend and will ally with you by turn 30
Never played this game before but Azazel is a breath of fresh air for slaanesh because I can actually believe that someone would be attracted to him
13:37
All that fighting with hydras reminded me of Hercules lol
a way to describe azazels animations is like a flying doombull with how he moves around when attacking, quite impressive tbh
Cameraman Legend getting the crispy angles on the fight was the best part of this vid
5:17 thats a John Cena move if I ever saw one
Azazel does get hurt if u stand and fight strong magic weapons lord if you dont hold the blade of slannesh (or SoK of coz)
But the thing i like about Azazel is you don't actually need to stack all these defeat traits and sword of slannesh for him to quickly be able to sort of one man doom stack because of his mobility and animation. I personally like to give him a banner of swiftness, let my other lord use the slannesh blade and just cycle charge everything to death. He doesn't need to just stand there and get surrounded like typical 1 man lords.
Also he actually have self heal on casting (5 wind whip or debuff are good) so he technically also doesn't need the regen crown and can heal pretty well with the demon chalice one time heal and has other buff when u need it. I've found that crown to be quite rare for some reason.
4:05 "That is what she said. And he. And them."
I believe there's a cap of 40 traits on a character, it can be any combination of different types of traits.
Legend you should see The video about leadership bombing with Azazel. He can rout anything with the demon blade and right spell combo and a rear charge. I think that Zerkovitch posted it. Fascinating cheese 🧀
When u can have the Blade of Slanesh u dont need to bomb leadership anymore... but yes its strong, but Azazel is so strong that i forget the most time to get the Demonblade with level 15.
@@astellios1748 very true. His leadership bombing doesn't need much prep as a doomstack. Just thought it was good to share 🙂
this is how I imagine the champions of chaos are in the actual lore
The way he obliterates lords, whilst darting around them, I'm getting Snikitch flashbacks
I've been playing Malekith on IE recently (2.0 version) and I'm 100% sure, that his sword DOES grant him magical attacs...
Also, it would've been much bigger challenge if he would've went against Black Ark army, since the Captain is able to give magical attacs to his entire army...
Damn, Azazel does love his "Do a Barrel Roll".
I play a Azazel campaign was testing a bit what a good start with Azazel looks like.
Get your first town in turn 1, make war with the minor faction that sit above big orthodoxy... turn 3 u can capture one of this settlements and u can sell it for a defense alliance to the big orthodoxy.
P.s: U have to disband all norsca vasals to seduce orthodoxie.
P.s.s: Big fun when u can have kislev, imperial and wood elf vassals with extra physical resist and immune against psychologie.
Literally facing a demi-god who just killed Malekith in mere seconds, the strongest dark elf leading your entire race, yet dark elf spearman: "Die weakling!"
Azazel livestream from Legend would be soo damn awesome ...
fingers crossed :)
You just know Morathi is gunna call up Slaanesh complaining about this fight
NGL that title got me hyped. Usually, Legends doesn´t throw around superlatives lightly.
Soldiers you have your orders, get those other doomstacks made!
Something I noticed, he managed to get this doomstack in less than 100 turns. Literally turn 85 and he has almost every necessary defeat traits.
The guy who sent it in has a comment stating that he used some mods (like infinite movement) to max out the defeat traits.
@@adamsmall5598 ah that does make sense.
Even to this day, Slaanesh is giving Elves the finger
Azazel has S tier animations and that contributes so much to how good he is
I played an entire domination campaign as Azazel. Super fun Llord!
Edit: A secret strength about him is his leadership defect abilities. He can leadership bomb so effectively. He gets massive discounts to phantasmgoria
the total max trait cap is actually at 40, not sure about specific kinds, but Cpecific's Mod that I used to test some other mods explains how there is a hard cap of 40 for all traits. Some LLs also have [HIDDEN] traits the don't show u but still take spots.
“Enemy is casting spells!”
-Some poor pointy earred basterd before he vanished to death
He slips right in and through units is very Slaanesh.
People should test these one-man doomstacks vs. End Game armies.
Taurox with Sword of Khaine: "what drawbacks?"
If you look on the right at his Inventory when you’re going over his traits. This guy has 6 talismans of preservation on turn 85. It’s interesting to see a lords Max potential - but he probably did cheat and give himself traits and items
Not sure about that, Talismans of Preservation seem really, really common in IE for some reason. During my nurgle campaign, I had ~8 of them before turn 100. I kept them and had one on most of my lords by turn ~200
this, and the fact that he went on all 4 corners of the map to get all the traits by turn 85, without ever getting the forced march trait is really sus
He did use mods. he explains that himself in a comment above.
Behold your beautific master.
He pulled a Valkia but didn't puss out
6:26-6:30 Traitor elf praising Azazal
Even against demons I don't see him losing much. Tzeentch would be strongest against him, but azazel will also hit through a units barrier in a singular hit. Dueling a single entity like skarbrand however will be an absolute walk in the park, azazel getting 180+ melee attack against skarbrand (92% hit at 123md skarbrand) and with 112 md skarbrand needs at least 85ma to match the 8% to hit chance. Because Azazel is a flying character, characters like skarbrand don't get a charge, just about guaranteeing that units don't get their charge bonus.
Assuming skarbrand takes 10 hits, azazel will on average receive less then 1 hit. He has enough power to duel skarbrand 10 times on just his healing alone.
tzeentch is most dangerous because there's a lot of magical ranged damage in that faction. And even though it's counted as small, it's larger then most small entities.
OKAY EDIT: I just saw he farmed some defeat traits to get 45% missile resist. Combined with the ward save, that means he gets 90% resisistance against tzeentch' missiled.
That means that, in my opinion at least, he can deal with any army. 4 armies of just exalted bloodletters or bloodthirsters might become hard, but everything else he can beat no problem.
20:08 excuse me? I also put in A LOT of effort into the teclis one. (I also put effort into the mazdamundi one, but there I used console commands for unlimited movement)
Malagor is also really good at hitting stuff as he lands
If you click on the Abilities tab on Azazel's character sheet it will list them all in a readable way.
My Zhao Ming campaign, dude is so OP as well. i have around 50% ward save and another 40% physical resistance. I send him solo at any army and they surround him then use that dragon bomb spell and that thing kills like everything. Its alot of fun.
For traits, there's a hard cap of 40 not exclusive to defeat traits, so you could have 40 if you used trait manager.
damn 4 one-man doomstacks in one week
I want to see what Skarbrand looks like as a single unit doom stack in WH III Immortal Empires. This Azazel is kinda nuts
Just noticed the defeat traits have a shield next them to let you know the faction from which it came from.
because malekiths weapon was added in warhammer 2 where magical attacks were not strictly better than physical
and it hasn't been changed since
Crazy hard work must go in it and i personal like azael the most of the new 4 Legendary lords nice too sea him so strong!!! He is in multiplayer very very strong too because of his leadership debuffs wich can around -32 too max -40(when the enemy has no fear or terror).
Azazel seemed more like a leadership debuff lord to me at first, but I’m surprised at how effective he can be in combat, too, especially for a Slannesh lord
Slannesh loves combat
Yeah the other Slaneesh LL is Nakai and he fuckin slaps too. Not counting on modded one-man doomstacks and overthetop cheese, those two might me some of the best combat guys in the entire LL roster.
So yeah... Those cheeks are getting red when Slaneesh lords come in
I love that you put it in cinematic mode sometimes it’s great to see the battle from first person and not overhead
how many defeat traits? YES
you can get slaanesh blade as cathay with the caravans I think.
nope
And after watching this i am loading up an azazel campaign
The first slaanesh army ability kinda forces a ranged unit int melee which is nice.
Dunno about the others though
12:34 "they are not hitting him"
Well yeah, that is kinda the thing melee defense does😅
He is truly a terrifying lord. Like a murdurous plastic surgery enthusiast.
I lov man, keep up the good work.
insane how good all the chaos characters are, you can 1 man doomstack with all of them.
THE ENEMY CASTS SPELLS
15:09 to see the fastest shift in the balance of power
The fact that he did the entire world tour by turn 85 is fucking impressive. he got LLs from all 4 corners of the map!!!
Its because he used a mod to get infinite movement points
Forbidden Rod is best arcane item I’ve had so far. If you have regen & not taking much dmg
question, how do you get the Blade of Slaneesh? I'm doing a Realm of Chaos campaign with Azazel
I actually thought of doing this campaign, it is so on brand for Azazel to only fight LLs.
This isn't in the one man doomstack playlist iirc
According to Enoch (biblical figure) Azazel led the Watchers (fallen angels) to rebel against God and encouraged the Watchers to agree to a pact to despoil creation.
Lore is so cool.
In the words of that one kid from the meme "Jesus Christ"
He's basically the only good new WOC lord, and the slaaneshy WOC are mostly based around their lords. They dont have allthe debuffs that the daemons do in the army, so its all on the lord. Sigvald is pretty good too as he gives +15% speed to everyone. Its the fact that he is both small, and flying that makes Azazel work, or at least i thought until i tried valkia, who dies when she gets hit with a wet noodle.
She has the same landing aninimation as well, but overcasting shards is better IMO because whilst the dps is the same, its much larger area
What situation triggers to get you slanesh’s blade? I’d like to get it in my play thru
Goodness gracious, Az is bodacious
How do you get such high ward saves? is it farming for equipment and hoping to get lucky and get specific ones? or are there particular legandary lords to kill for there death traits?
18:16 it's a total trait cap of 40 so if you avoid getting too many of the basic bitch traits you can get more than 10 defeat traits... Or he used the trait manager mod to remove traits he didn't want including passively leveld up ones like X victories and Y Defeats bnased garbage +5 leadership stuff.
@LegendofTotalWar you guys. theres a mod that allows you to assign traits to your lords. You pick them out of a list and apply them very easily. Cpecific's Traits Manager. Im sure he just installed it, set the traits and then uninstalled it.
He commented what mods he used and how he went about it.
Hey Legend an Idea just skipped my mind couldn´t you save the 1man dommstack charackters and make a battle royal?
What’s better ward save or physical resistance ?
Damn I was thinking of the DLC lords, Festus would be the best one man doomstack. But with all the abilities and being able to get slaanesh blade, Azazel seriously looks like a great contender. Plus his in combat animations are actually really good for clearing out chaff. I've beaten his campaign and his attacks are kinda like the tomb scorpion in being able to move and have a huge hitbox on their attacks.
Having played Vilitch, I was surprised to find he also seems like a very strong combatant -- although it would take ages for him to deal with single entities. In the final battle of the CoC campaign, he literally did not take a single point of damage, despite tanking a good amount of units (including a Shaggoth and the final boss at the same time, along with Chosen), because he just regens his barrier too quickly if you boost it with Tech and the Gift of Tzeentch. He also gets surprisingly high MA and MD for a caster, even without defeat trait hunting.
Ultra instinct Demon
well, Even army with magic attack... they still need to deal with that Meleedefense
Man, and I thought Kholek was overpowered.
Azazel slips though because he is all lubed up...
Might play an azazel campaign now, though I really don’t care for the dark fortress system
When you're slipping through unit's and he's like "out of my way" 😂🤌
These defeat traits got to be from some kind of cheat mod, no way he got all of them in 85 turns.
Movement exploit exists still. Might be that. But it's also surprising how much you can get done if you're only running from one place to the next
YEAH EXCATLY big cheats.
@@BIDENS_HOG what movement exploit?
Yes, as explained in my other comment, I used a mod to have unlimited movement, research, etc. But no skill/item/trait spawn, I collected the traits manually. Legend said that he was ok with mods for doomstacks as long as they don't spawn things or things like that. It's a purely theoritical doomstack.
@@mepassistant your chatting bs, why would you add a mod which adds all that then grind it out? you clearly just added the items in because it makes no sense to add all that then grind out the items? nah
Idea - Save all the best One Man Doomstacks, then do 1v1s to see who's really the best.
Can you get slaaneshi blade if you kill Azazel? Some rng luck ?
Slaanesh worshippers…main character aspect is…perfection…
A tip to know…mortals…
Legend should do a stream where he tries to hunt down and collect defeat traits around the world. Maybe with Noctilus or something.