Not anymore. Skill creep means that most players high silver and up have the mechanical capacity to pick him up pretty quickly. I think champions that just generally suck (like Zeri) are the hardest to do well on now.
it really depends on the person, really. some people might find animation cancels hard or simply just non-meta champs hard. but objectively, azir is the hardest, this video explained it all, like stat-wise, micro-wise, etc.
@joekerr5418 NXT episode ahri the hottest girl in league, after that master Yi- that one time faker played him in mid, Ryze- the old man with a book, Zed- the champ who spanked ryu, and they can keep going 🤣
Azir is the first champ I think of when anyone mentions pro play, he is the face of pro play. It's a minimum requirement at this point that any pro player has to be effecient at the champ to be viable. It also helps that Faker, the face of the game, is an insane Azir player.
This is categorically false. Midlaners havent really had to be great at azir since 2017 there are just straight up better champs. Faker makes the champ look so good cuz he’s faker
he lost his status as the face of pro play when he had a 0% pick and ban rate at Worlds this year. Rito gutted him to the point where not even Faker would bother picking him. WEQR PHREAK IS XERATH +4 AD
Azir is like the king of chess, the most important piece, but useless and weak without his army, and must be safeguarded at all times in order to achieve victory.
@fth2780 Easyhoon was not a otp. He was the second best mid player in the world. But faker was just a little bit better on most other champions at the time.
@@valmiro4164 if easyhoon evolved like faker, he wouldn't have been erased like that.. we could argue faker is the only one who could evolve like that though
@@eyaangel618in my opinion huge Azir shuffle is one of the best super plays that you can see in those huge games. It’s much better than watching Corki and Tristana mid like spring summer seasons and msi.
What make Faker the Faker we love, is normal people just keep on using their old method to win to play, and if it not going to work, they quit. But Faker who got benched because Easyhoon out shine him on Azir, learn to play it and become the most iconic player to use Azir. Just like his wrist injury, he has the courage to change his mouse grip habit just to keep competitive in the game. He never give up
As an retired azir main with over a million points on him, (i dont play league much anymore) playing Azir effectively essentially carried me from silver up to diamond. At the time, no one knew how to play him will, and because everyone that tried was so bad, no one knew how to play against him. Even when he was bad, he was still so so good in low elo if you knew how to play him well.
16:29 This is the best Azir play that I've seen personally, it's the like castling in chess but the king decided to come *shuffle* back and take everyone down with his soldiers
Azir is the very definition of the word “Control Mage”. From the lore, to his model, to his abilities, gameplay and his significance to League in general, whether proplay or solo queue. He’s quite literally the “Emperor”
@@tobbcittobbcit8899 Someone who never heard about Easyhoon giving praise to Faker as the current best Azir player. We don't need to be thorny to each other when the players themselves are respectful to each other.🤝
One thing I'll add. Low soloQ winrate does not automatically mean that it's impossible to make work in soloQ. It just means that, more often than not, you will completely grief the game than carry, but it doesn't mean the second one won't happen
Azir is the best design riot ever created in my eyes The champion is so unique, well balanced, the lore makes you feel cool while playing him, viable for casual and competitive gameplay, has a learning curve that rewards you a ton for investing time in learning him, on top of that, when you playing Azir dont metter how much your team feeds, you always have a feeling that you can still win. All around the best champion in league.
8:30 to be fair i0ki is a SUPPORT main and was playing azir is the support role as a challenge...hes still a pretty good player...also considering he pulled off senna JGL recently vs an elise
This might be controversial comment. if you saw the Faker's play against JDG Ruler, Oner is the one who FLASH into locking Ruler after Faker's ult, and it's ZEUS that finished Ruler. The fact that they follow after Faker's play is the communication. All I want to say is... AZIR works in pro play because they got mic on. While in solo que, they can't comms real time. I played couple of competitive games : Dota 2, Valorant, CSGO, even mobile games like ML and Wild Rift. The only thing that LOL doesn't have in casual competitive games is the feature to use mic in game. That's essential to play like a team in solo queue games. Wild Rift, while at some point got mic, they removed it, idk about now. (Edit: mistyped).
On the contrary side tho, because of this comms things, League E-sport still relevant and might be the one of the most exciting to watch, because we could witness team pro play that couldn't be executed the same way in highest rank games.
To play this character optimally, you had to change ur auto attack binds. He is by far my favourite character to play for mid as you’re consistently learning with him, esp at a macro level. Downside is that Riot devs keep messing his stats with every patch.
The channel has a Support (Thresh) video a jungler (Lee sin) video an ADC( Ezreal) video now a midlane mage (Azir) why not barenlane deserves some attention also
cant believe you didnt mention his W could be cast on turrets to do direct damage to them, his E would knock up the first champion Azir hit with it, his R would continue knocking people back if they even got close to the wall of soldiers
While I do think that Azir is the hardest champ to master in league. I don't really agree with how you make him sound like it's next to impossible for a non-pro to play him successfully. It's not THAT hard to play him decently. Sure the Shurima Shuffle is quite difficult to do well, but often you don't even need to. Below diamond his ult is often just used defensively, like an Anivia wall that does damage.
never forget this champ was on 37% winrate on release with 4 charges on soldiers that could be casted on turrets for 300 dmg with a knock up on E and a wall that couldnt be dashed over and all that because the champ was so bugged he was unplayable and then 130 bug fixes later he was broken azir was the OG king of bugs before viego
Master Yi is even more difficult. That's why you don't see pros play him. Because playing him mid level is okay but to excel with him and win pro games is difficult.
I mean.. Azir isn't the only one who is nerfed to the ground in solo queue but still broken in proplay, Akali is up there with him. I don't see many akali players these days but every time i watch not Just T1 but any competitive play, Akali is on either the Banned list or on the Draft pick
Imo the hardest champ is Gangplank but yeah… you can‘t make a video like this about Gangplank, if you want views. GP has harder cooldown management, more precise placement for his abilities and you need godlike muscle memory if you‘re playing against a good team that can destroy barrels. Azir is definitly in my top 5 (with maybe something like yasuo, lee sin, nida,…) but GP for me is just that champ
Approaching around 750k on Azir now I think, he's definitely not the hardest champ in the game anymore. Although his skill ceiling is quite high, it's nowhere near the highest, and his skill floor is surprisingly low. Some practice with infinite cooldowns and you'll be able to shuffle pretty reliably; rev shuffles are a bit harder but definitely not a necessity to play Even considering stuff like good positioning, keeping track of soldiers, kiting, and basic mid/solo lane macro, he's not the hardest champ imho. That being said, his popularity in pro play (stuff like consistency, good scaling, good with coordinated teams, etc.) has led to him being pretty underpowered in solo Q. He's definitely still playable especially in low elo but it gets kinda bad the better the enemy team gets. In solo Q, his state as a pro-jailed character means you have to put in a lot of effort to match other, better mid laners, so in that sense he is difficult I guess
Unsure if it's because Faker at the start wasn't an Azir player, but was a known Ahri Ryze Le Blanc player, hence why Ahri and Le Blanc got Faker skins while Azir didn't? Not a rito dev, no clue what their thought process was, but yea I do agree it should've been Azir. Faker's most played champ in proplay versus his 2nd most played in proplay is just massive difference in number of games, but I guess at the same time Faker's Ahri games are just different when it's Worlds?
I don't know about the 'hardest.' As a 6k Dota 2 player and a former Diamond in League, I managed to climb the ranks with this champion with less than 100k mastery points. It's not even the 'hardest.' I'd say Qiyana or Irelia is much harder.
Shows a silly play from Body Those Fools (4:57) and probably the worst Azir play I've ever laid my eyes on from i0ki (8:29). Also a decent example of Azir range from Body at 12:10. Glad to see the For Fun Squad making it in here XD
Azir is not the hardest NOW but he was before. Azir was the OG champion with essays in their skill but lately most champion release have that. He has a fairly high learning curve but overcome that floor and you already basically play at somewhat same level as higher tier players. The difference comes from decision making on using your skills and combo. Do you Shuffle? Do you poke with Q? Where do I put the soldier? Do I need 2? etc. But as said, once you get over that skill floor, the ceiling will be just how and when you make use of those skills.
Is Azir the hardest champion in league?
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I still think old Asol is the hardest due to his unique playstyle
Not anymore. Skill creep means that most players high silver and up have the mechanical capacity to pick him up pretty quickly. I think champions that just generally suck (like Zeri) are the hardest to do well on now.
well no, if i have to pick i would choose Old Sol (playstyle), Riven (animation cancel) and fiora (0.2 sec ult)
No
it really depends on the person, really. some people might find animation cancels hard or simply just non-meta champs hard. but objectively, azir is the hardest, this video explained it all, like stat-wise, micro-wise, etc.
Only the real ones know, they made this video purely cause they wanted to talk more about Faker 😂😂
Even better, they made this series so the first Ep would be about Faker 😂
Not complaining tho
@joekerr5418 NXT episode ahri the hottest girl in league, after that master Yi- that one time faker played him in mid, Ryze- the old man with a book, Zed- the champ who spanked ryu, and they can keep going 🤣
Bro they milking faker but nobody minds anyways
Nothing can slip past us it seems 😂😂
@@theogthugcat anyone saying real is fake
Azir is the first champ I think of when anyone mentions pro play, he is the face of pro play. It's a minimum requirement at this point that any pro player has to be effecient at the champ to be viable. It also helps that Faker, the face of the game, is an insane Azir player.
This is categorically false. Midlaners havent really had to be great at azir since 2017 there are just straight up better champs. Faker makes the champ look so good cuz he’s faker
he lost his status as the face of pro play when he had a 0% pick and ban rate at Worlds this year. Rito gutted him to the point where not even Faker would bother picking him.
WEQR PHREAK IS XERATH +4 AD
Knight couldn't play Azir tho
It's not a minimum requirement. People call knight the "best midlaner" and he can't play the champ if his life depended on it.
@@icecreamcake5381knight azir aware xdd
The irony that SKT’s Azir skin is technically not Faker’s but we all see it as Faker’s champ.
What are you talking about dawg the skin was for 2016 after FAKER won his 2nd straight and 3rd title. Who else would it be for???
Did you Google it@@otimelyofficial8146 cos he's definitely right tho
@@otimelyofficial8146er….can’t tell of this is a joke, but Azir is for Easyhoon in 2015. Faker chose Ryze in 2015 and Syndra in 2016
@@otimelyofficial8146 bro... SKT azir is EasyHoon's skin
@@otimelyofficial8146 Azir's skin was for Easyhoon, Skt's 6th man midlaner. Faker chose Ryze
Azir is like the king of chess, the most important piece, but useless and weak without his army, and must be safeguarded at all times in order to achieve victory.
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Then there’s Faker who just throws himself into the middle of 5 man and shove them around
which is very fair given how strong that ult is. If you splt the enemy team the fight is literally over lol :)
Ryu then: oh boy here we go again.
Ruler now: Oh boy... here we go again..
Easyhoon: shut up ruler. at least you get to play
It's shocking how he essentially got erased
@@valmiro4164it’s cause Faker literally became Azir after Easyhoon
I mean being an otp isn't a good choice. He can easily be replaced
@fth2780 Easyhoon was not a otp. He was the second best mid player in the world. But faker was just a little bit better on most other champions at the time.
@@valmiro4164 if easyhoon evolved like faker, he wouldn't have been erased like that.. we could argue faker is the only one who could evolve like that though
0:44 ok, this introduction is sooo clean. Can't wait to see other characters talked about with this animation
Yeah! I wonder if they already did that in other videos or is it their 1st time doing that
Yo this series is gonna be sick
I really enjoyed this video even though I don't play LoL. I'm just excited about what they'll do with DotA 2, I'm really hoping it's gonna be Invoker.
@@sporkcheese6649Invoker, Meepo and Techies xd
shuriman shuffle finally getting recognition
I can't believe it but, this world's i kinda missed the chicken on the rift. Though, atleast he got some good Galio games.
I felt good actually when they nerf Azir for worlds. Got sicked of him seriously. And it turns out great the goat got to play Galio and Sylas
@@eyaangel618in my opinion huge Azir shuffle is one of the best super plays that you can see in those huge games. It’s much better than watching Corki and Tristana mid like spring summer seasons and msi.
@@eyaangel618huh? Got sick of watching azir? The champ basically only faker played and is quite literally the most fun champion to watch? Lul
@@ThisKidLennon well If it's fun for you then it's great. I'm sicked of it and that's it. We have different experience on it and that's just fine
@@ThisKidLennonpretty much everyone was playing grasp azir in LCK last year
What make Faker the Faker we love, is normal people just keep on using their old method to win to play, and if it not going to work, they quit. But Faker who got benched because Easyhoon out shine him on Azir, learn to play it and become the most iconic player to use Azir. Just like his wrist injury, he has the courage to change his mouse grip habit just to keep competitive in the game. He never give up
Learn his basics is something. Mastering him is another conpletely different.
theScore eSports thought they slick with this video. It's another Faker video titled differently.
I see you, guys. I see you.
As an retired azir main with over a million points on him, (i dont play league much anymore) playing Azir effectively essentially carried me from silver up to diamond. At the time, no one knew how to play him will, and because everyone that tried was so bad, no one knew how to play against him. Even when he was bad, he was still so so good in low elo if you knew how to play him well.
Im currently plat right now (was emerald peak) should i continue pursuing him
@ yes ofc. He’s always a really good champion to have in your arsenal at all ranks.
Shuriman shuffle feels so good when you are able to pull it off. Feels better than orianna 3 man ult.
Draven axe catching>>>
why 3 man and not the whole team😂
@Max-dv1kq brow 5 man ori ult >> than shuriman shuffle 😂 its like insta win if late game
@@kurtblasco4661 best League feeling I ever had was a Pentakill with Teemo while dead.
The irony of posting this after this year’s azir-less worlds
Love the concept for this series! Definitely going to watch more
Something like 'stories of dota'
16:29 This is the best Azir play that I've seen personally, it's the like castling in chess but the king decided to come *shuffle* back and take everyone down with his soldiers
Ryu to Ruler: first time?
This vibe is fire!
I really cant get Zeke Yeager off of my head every time I see you, man
It's so funny that the whole community silently accepts that azir will be pro jailed forever, and that his low winrate is simply a given
Remember the time when his passive was % of his cooldown stat is converted to aspd? Pepperidge farm remembers...
This is all anti Yummi propaganda. Yummi hardest champ easily
Love watching my main get some recognition 🐥
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Would love to see one of these videos on thresh. I know they have an older thresh video but god I love watching thresh plays
Faker saving TheScore once again
Fking ture
Welp, they create good stories, so I won't complain.
another content that theScore can do on Faker
LOVE the new format - keep it coming!❤
Azir is the very definition of the word “Control Mage”. From the lore, to his model, to his abilities, gameplay and his significance to League in general, whether proplay or solo queue. He’s quite literally the “Emperor”
Glazing over 1 champion in a 23 minute video is craaazy
I like how Zeke is explaining why Azir is the hardest champion. Good video.
Watching azir in pro play is what got me to play league in the first place (not exactly beginner friendly though lol). Such a killer champion design
Props to them actually including clips of other players playing Azir instead of a Faker montage
The name *AZIR* , shall once again crack the sky!
Ruler beside ryu facepalming.. "how many times will i see this on repeat?" 😂
Excellent edit, brilliant writing with a healthy dose of Danny's caramel voice. BUT lets do a quick TOPIC SHUFFLE and make the next one on BLG's BIN!
Next video: Zed
Ryu: here we go again
Thank you for acknowledging that the shurima shuffle is JUST the E Q dash extension. Its annoying when flash ult get called a shuffle😂😂
Only Faker can unleash his full potential!
Have you heard about body? Guy is insane on azir being an azir otp. Haha
Someone who never heard about easyhon
@@tobbcittobbcit8899 i did now (y)
@@gregoriobuenagua1235 (y)
@@tobbcittobbcit8899 Someone who never heard about Easyhoon giving praise to Faker as the current best Azir player. We don't need to be thorny to each other when the players themselves are respectful to each other.🤝
19:40 "makes azir the hardest champion to balance Riot's ever created"
Zeri enters the room
One thing I'll add. Low soloQ winrate does not automatically mean that it's impossible to make work in soloQ. It just means that, more often than not, you will completely grief the game than carry, but it doesn't mean the second one won't happen
Azir is the best design riot ever created in my eyes The champion is so unique, well balanced, the lore makes you feel cool while playing him, viable for casual and competitive gameplay, has a learning curve that rewards you a ton for investing time in learning him, on top of that, when you playing Azir dont metter how much your team feeds, you always have a feeling that you can still win. All around the best champion in league.
8:30 to be fair i0ki is a SUPPORT main and was playing azir is the support role as a challenge...hes still a pretty good player...also considering he pulled off senna JGL recently vs an elise
This might be controversial comment.
if you saw the Faker's play against JDG Ruler, Oner is the one who FLASH into locking Ruler after Faker's ult, and it's ZEUS that finished Ruler.
The fact that they follow after Faker's play is the communication.
All I want to say is... AZIR works in pro play because they got mic on.
While in solo que, they can't comms real time.
I played couple of competitive games : Dota 2, Valorant, CSGO, even mobile games like ML and Wild Rift.
The only thing that LOL doesn't have in casual competitive games is the feature to use mic in game.
That's essential to play like a team in solo queue games.
Wild Rift, while at some point got mic, they removed it, idk about now.
(Edit: mistyped).
On the contrary side tho, because of this comms things, League E-sport still relevant and might be the one of the most exciting to watch, because we could witness team pro play that couldn't be executed the same way in highest rank games.
you mean oner? cause oner is the one playing rell and flash engaged on ruler
@@Varuun oh ya. thanks for the correction!
He’s the first champ they sdded after I started playing
Love to see Body Those Fools. Guy's the goat
He’s the hardest and most complex champ” Aphelios is sitting in the corner listening
To play this character optimally, you had to change ur auto attack binds. He is by far my favourite character to play for mid as you’re consistently learning with him, esp at a macro level. Downside is that Riot devs keep messing his stats with every patch.
The channel has a Support (Thresh) video a jungler (Lee sin) video an ADC( Ezreal) video now a midlane mage (Azir) why not barenlane deserves some attention also
4:51 AYYY IT'S MA BOI HYLIAN, LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
In the past, they always try to put faker zed vs ryu, now its the emperor’s divide on ruler
i considered azir to be the hardest at some point back then but with the insane pool of other mechanical champions i changed my mind
this reminds me of old driftking azir montage clips
No one squeezes milks the League GOAT more than theScore does
2:42 - Yo, a pre-ascended Azir skin would be kinda nice ngl.
Hope they bring an iteration of Well and Seth at some point, seem cool!
OG Azir players will remember when soldiers could hit towers and you could solo any of them from a stupid distance.
When Arise became the toolkit for destroying the turret in the past.
azir is like leesin for midlane. very cool and fun to watch in pro scene but goodluck if you are in low mmr and your teammate choose it.
The fact that people still consider this champ hard after 10 years of release is a joke
Talk tuah
FINALLY TIME TO PUT SOME RESPECT ON THE GOAT, BEST CHAMPION IN THE VIDEO GAME
cant believe you didnt mention his W could be cast on turrets to do direct damage to them, his E would knock up the first champion Azir hit with it, his R would continue knocking people back if they even got close to the wall of soldiers
I still miss azir's E knock up to this day
Zeke yeager look goes hard ngl 😂
Lisan al Gaib, as was written
I remember we used to call it The shurima drift back in the day xd
While I do think that Azir is the hardest champ to master in league. I don't really agree with how you make him sound like it's next to impossible for a non-pro to play him successfully.
It's not THAT hard to play him decently. Sure the Shurima Shuffle is quite difficult to do well, but often you don't even need to. Below diamond his ult is often just used defensively, like an Anivia wall that does damage.
never forget this champ was on 37% winrate on release with 4 charges on soldiers that could be casted on turrets for 300 dmg with a knock up on E and a wall that couldnt be dashed over
and all that because the champ was so bugged he was unplayable and then 130 bug fixes later he was broken azir was the OG king of bugs before viego
Master Yi is even more difficult. That's why you don't see pros play him. Because playing him mid level is okay but to excel with him and win pro games is difficult.
I mean.. Azir isn't the only one who is nerfed to the ground in solo queue but still broken in proplay, Akali is up there with him. I don't see many akali players these days but every time i watch not Just T1 but any competitive play, Akali is on either the Banned list or on the Draft pick
I love Azir❤❤❤❤ He looks so dignified and the shuffle is so cool to see🥰🥰🥰
Imo the hardest champ is Gangplank but yeah… you can‘t make a video like this about Gangplank, if you want views. GP has harder cooldown management, more precise placement for his abilities and you need godlike muscle memory if you‘re playing against a good team that can destroy barrels.
Azir is definitly in my top 5 (with maybe something like yasuo, lee sin, nida,…) but GP for me is just that champ
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Azir Ryze Kalista Aphelios and Zeri mains lets all assemble and mourn for our champions being unplayable
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What is the differences of akali and azir? These two champions hard to balance in game rigth?
The emperor is dead. Long live the emperor.
At the basis, the problem with azir is that he has both constant damage, burst, mobility and long range
Approaching around 750k on Azir now I think, he's definitely not the hardest champ in the game anymore. Although his skill ceiling is quite high, it's nowhere near the highest, and his skill floor is surprisingly low.
Some practice with infinite cooldowns and you'll be able to shuffle pretty reliably; rev shuffles are a bit harder but definitely not a necessity to play
Even considering stuff like good positioning, keeping track of soldiers, kiting, and basic mid/solo lane macro, he's not the hardest champ imho.
That being said, his popularity in pro play (stuff like consistency, good scaling, good with coordinated teams, etc.) has led to him being pretty underpowered in solo Q. He's definitely still playable especially in low elo but it gets kinda bad the better the enemy team gets.
In solo Q, his state as a pro-jailed character means you have to put in a lot of effort to match other, better mid laners, so in that sense he is difficult I guess
hey dude any one told you that you are like Zeke Yeager in attack on titan , even the voice !
theScore eSports main juice is literally Faker, TenZ, Simple, Shroud lmao
I still can't get over the fact that Rito chose Ahri instead of Azir for Unkillable Demon King Faker's hall of fame skin 💀
Unsure if it's because Faker at the start wasn't an Azir player, but was a known Ahri Ryze Le Blanc player, hence why Ahri and Le Blanc got Faker skins while Azir didn't? Not a rito dev, no clue what their thought process was, but yea I do agree it should've been Azir. Faker's most played champ in proplay versus his 2nd most played in proplay is just massive difference in number of games, but I guess at the same time Faker's Ahri games are just different when it's Worlds?
because, ahri is the champion who sells skins the best
I love playing azir :)
I don't know about the 'hardest.' As a 6k Dota 2 player and a former Diamond in League, I managed to climb the ranks with this champion with less than 100k mastery points. It's not even the 'hardest.' I'd say Qiyana or Irelia is much harder.
Looks like a reupload or I've seen it on other channels
Shows a silly play from Body Those Fools (4:57) and probably the worst Azir play I've ever laid my eyes on from i0ki (8:29). Also a decent example of Azir range from Body at 12:10. Glad to see the For Fun Squad making it in here XD
WEQR my shuriman brothers, Phreak is Xerath
As a long time Azir main, i approve
Azir is NOT the hardest champ in the game. He’s up there but saying he’s the hardest is pushing it
Azir is not the hardest NOW but he was before. Azir was the OG champion with essays in their skill but lately most champion release have that. He has a fairly high learning curve but overcome that floor and you already basically play at somewhat same level as higher tier players.
The difference comes from decision making on using your skills and combo. Do you Shuffle? Do you poke with Q? Where do I put the soldier? Do I need 2? etc.
But as said, once you get over that skill floor, the ceiling will be just how and when you make use of those skills.
What's the music in the video?
i wouldn’t even put azir in top 10. irelia, qiyana, draven, kalista, are all wayyyy harder to name a few
"Teammates: The hardest champion in league."
Ever heard of 'Spirit of the pharaoh' in Yu Gi Oh?
People see Faker plays and try Azir just go "wtf this champ suck"
WEQR, PHREAK IS XERATH , DO NOT FORGET THE MISSION
oh man. I rlly want the invoker one ^^
sad revenant shuffle wasnt mentioned
i remember when you can point click azir’s W to towers and you just melt the towers HP hahahaha
Still waiting this champion on WILD DRIFT!!!