WHY is Azir so DIFFICULT to play? | League of Legends

every person saying hes hard to play is delusional

Its not hard, its usless. No instant dmg, no instant cc, no instant mobility. Literally usless champ

He's easy, get movement down by q'ing early after e your mind will fill in the time gap after awhile once you got muscle memory down you after 2 weeks of play you dont need to think about it shuffle done easy then he plays like every other mage cept you can split push with passive reliably i reccommend not doing it without zonyahs in side lanes also pushing down with top laner 2 0 3 can be devistating cause they need 3 or 4 to beat you

One Millon diamond. I love him so much

Azir is a champion who has to build an on hit item and yet he can not use on hit effects that paired with that fact he cant use most auto attack runes dispite using auto attacks

I just started releasing Azir content on my own! Cool vid!

Not a "difficult" champ considering the leveling of the champ is the same as any other, i'm not level 5 yet and have a pretty good grasp.
(though the shurima shuffle/moving trough walls etc remains to be studied hehe..)
STILL .... a fucking beautiful champ, one of the best designed champs in the entire catalog imo.

I think Azir like every champ need just practice. I play Azir for two years and i am feeling always confident when I play him. Nice video :).

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I think that his E's shield is totaly pointless it's not like it has a tiny knockup as he had before, his E feels useless tbh, I just wish it could dash through enemies, and it's not like champions with more damage and simmilar dashes exist.

Ive never gotten flamed for not following a fuken katarina in river but im sure gonna taste it....just like when junglers complain at minion wave not being good for gank and mid wants gank never understood it untill today

4 months later I am just now realising I am in this video lmao. Thx algorithm.

Tbh i think azir is very easy low elo.

I always imagined it’s because azir damages build up. They don’t all hit you in one go. And fights usually don’t last that long.

Azir can be fixed with one buff: add his Q a second charge.

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I love that Katarina example because its so freakin accurate. Katarina literally cant do shit in lane against Azir. Azir abosutely dominate the lane. You can say a couple times to your team mates that she will roam, you can spam ping them and yet they will die every single time to Katarina and flame you for not following her roam. Like it doesnt even make sense to follow. You are already extremly ahead, the enemy cant lane against you, so she has to roam and now the part people dont understand. If they back off from their lane the Katarina that NEEEDS TO SNOWBALL cant snowball thru roams which makes at some point as much worth as a minion and an overfarmed plates taking hyperscaling Azir in exchange for 1-2 minion waves in bot lane. The issue is that those monkeys in the bot lane cant stand that they are not the main carries every single game. They rather int than let anyone else carry.

IMO Azir isn't "hard", he is harder than a lot of other champs but a few weeks and you can do pretty okay on him assuming you have the fundamentals of League down. I think his problem is this; There are 3 stages to a league game, laning phase, mid-game/skirmish phase and late game/teamfight phase. Azir is pretty good at 2 of the 3. That being laning and teamfighting, the issue is his skirmish power is pathetic because his W damage HAS to be bad. This is because his poke is long range, remarkably consistent, and oppressive in lane so if he did okay damage mid-game, his laning damage would be off the charts due to AA Q AA being so quick and easy to hit. For example, you said that his damage was bad then showed 80 damage an auto, Don't forget that a basic combo of 2 AA and 1 Q means roughly ~200 damage at that stage and its basically undodgeable. If you wanted to make Azir the same/worse in lane and make him a better skirmishers, you would have to basically remove his Q damage altogether and make the CD waaay lower. However, I don't think this is what makes Azir bad/hard. I think it's the players who play with him, almost no one understands that if you walk out of Azir soldiers, he does nothing. And that "YoU cAn MoVe ThE SoLdIeRs WiTh Q" comment makes no sense if you just play him for 1 game, move all your soldiers away, then get 1v1 by yuumi cause you have no soldiers and Q is on a 10-sec cooldown. The amount of times I am 2v2 with jungle and he just... walks away from me and my soldiers, dies 1v2 then pings is insane. This is why he does so much better in higher elos and pro play. I find Azir is actually waaay better toplane since you can run Conq or First strike and basically scale for free and not have to worry about roaming at all. Not to mention with Azirs R he can outplay a lot of obnoxious toplaners such as Trynd and Darius. The only issue is, no front line if you are top and can mean an AP-heavy team.

TL;DR Azir is bad cause mid-lane is a roam and skirmish-orientated lane but Azir is arguably one of the worst champions in the game for this aspect both in terms of kit and player base knowledge (ESPECIALLY after lethal tempo rework/nerfs).

i love azir

Very very good video, love it! <3
You could also include the drifting mechanic on Azir that every good Azir player should master, you can and often need to do very creative and crazy drifting and dashing around multiple terrains in order to escape
You could also include the fact that his E can get bodyblocked, making it not just a simple dash like any other champions dash - almost no other champions dash can get bodyblocked, except maybe Camille, Gragas and Akshan (but lets be real, its very hard to bodyblock his swing, unlike Azir E) and the other 2 WANT to be blocked/hit others with their dashes in order to CC them
Azir gets a Soldier stacks and does very minor damage when hitting enemy on E, but thats mostly good in close fights on lane, otherwise its just an instant death sentence - you need very good positioning, spacing around the enemy or even outplaying them by placing multiple soldiers and alternating between them while spacing said enemy in order to just escape/use your dash
Also about his soldier positioning, very often I see highelo Azir OTPs play their champion to very high potential, placing soldiers to zone very precisely or in big teamfights/even in lane beforehand because they predict where the enemy will move after they ult so they can kite them with 2-3 or more extra autos while the enemy moves back in that said soldier, aligning their ult to hit enemy pushing them into the prepared before soldiers predicting at where the enemy will try to escape and zoning them, etc etc and I saw A LOT of different situations like that and how you can use soldiers - all the planing before with all the soldiers, very often I ask myself is this Chess on this champion for real xD

Azir right now is not worth it. The amount of champions that outdamage you, have dashes all the time and even outrange you (looking at you senna) is not worth your small range advantage.

Azir needs a rework. Either bring him back his passive on ult that knocks back conventional dashes, or increase range on his soldiers.

Or maybe think of new way of scaling for the range, so that he isnt too opressive in lane but in late game his range is bigger than now

Getting to know how to play azir's many playstyles is handy and very good, but this meand playing only him to learn all of that and sucking at all other champions that are not azir.

Azir feels easy for me and everything else hard.

this just makes me respect Body (number 1 Azir world) infinitely more, the man is absolutely cracked

okay, your azir propaganda videos have finally got to me. imma try him out and hopefully i can restore glory to the empire of shurima
edit: i got 3 insecs in one game i can see why you people suffer for this champion

Ha! otp since his release. I still struggle some times🤣

Jokes on you, I play him cause he’s hot
I uh also don’t know how to play league so…

Good info on why Azir is tough to play. One huge thing you didn’t touch on is to play Azir at anything other than a basic level you must use attack move to use his autos properly. Also his cooldowns are pretty long early.

Played him since launch. I don’t think he that hard 😅

Big azir ult is not always good.

Sometimes, you have to just auto the enemies rather than going for the shuffle flash ult (you stopwatch and dies afterwards). Azir ultimate is like an inferior orianna ultimate, but easier to hit with higher risks involved. It's easier to hit because shockwave cast time is too long.

Azir really sucks. Like real bad. He's not worth playing. Think of it like this. Illaoi deploys tentacles on spot and will just wipe a team. Heinerdenger will drop turrets and they will always do more damage than your azir. He's a cool concept but overall useless squishy and does low dmg

azir truly is one of the most difficult champs, mainly because of how unorthodox he is compared to the other champs, kinda like hes the yoshimitsu of league (shoutout to any t7 fans)
P.S. when dummy started playing i died XDDD

He's one of the only ones that has to position perfectly or be useless in team fights or die.

On the other side, no other champion can build so many different runepages and items and be extremely useful in all of them. Sure, it takes time to master all the different playstyles, but man is it rewarding to do so. Love your videos man, you deserve more recognition

great video!