That's the regular definition of meta. But what gamers refer to as meta is M.E.T.A - Most Effective Tactic Available

I am today years old knowing what meta means also so dont worry I am just dumb XD

My mind is blown learning this

@@VarsVerum that is actually just a backronym

i got my mind blown by this omg

faker 78% WR picks azir all the time.

​@@MaccusFNS im talking about the champion winrate, not the player winrate... Before shaco support was considered good, it had a shitty winrate, yet i had a 80% winrate with that

A lot of the time it's balanced around highest elo, he is played constantly at pro play

you are completely wrong. Just because a winrate is bad for a chmapioni it doesnt mean its abad. You have to look on objectiv facts, his abilitys etsc. Not winrate. Shit champions like yi have an high winrate. When you want to know what champs are truly broken right now look at pro play, azir is oen of them

@@cybercipher5770 you missed the point where pro play can't be compared to soloQ. Champs can be broken in soloQ while being near useless in pro play and vice versa. Taking Azir as an example, he's got a very strong kit for pro play and thus is nerfed in all regards, in order to not overperform in proplay. Which makes him a bad win rate champ in soloQ. Thus the assumption in the original comment bears some truth.

I'm snuffing you out >:D

He just got one of mine, kindred. My other is kayn and now viego. And I don't see either of them making the list any time soon.

haha he did

Pyke,Kalista,Viego,Yorick,Nasus, and Azir. 4/6 so far

@@keidobones 😭😭😭

bruh, my normal game is either 5 monke vs 5 monke or pro team vs pro team rarely in the between

I remember once we were at fourty minutes, everyone on our team hit power spikes, were rolling the enemy and it was just a matter of time before we won, and our yuumi called a surrender with the reason being that she was bored

@@iiiivvvv9986 well, playing yuumi is boring tho

LMAO that's why I stopped playing ranked. They're either really tough pros or have monke level mentality

my games are the same it's like the matrix or something

Oh lol I love ur videos and you're one of my inspirations for Azir. Great to see you here too

​@@BreadedSandwichwho the FUCK is he?

I was so mad when they removed the interaction with his ult...

@@aerkrybryan3745 I may be too young (started) in S9 but wtf he could cancell dashes now I see why riot doesn't want him to be popular. But on a serious note they should revert that anti dash mechanic since almost every champ has 1 dash at least in these days.

@@misteriousgamers9290 I mean, that might make him even more broken, since there was less dashing back then, he would be a counter for literally every dash(would be nice to have a solid dash counter but riot says no)

He suffers from Overloaded Kit Syndrome that reigns in pro LoL, so to not have Azir in every Wolds, they have to beat him down

@@misteriousgamers9290 That's good. Every character having a dash is completely stupid. Having a character that can counter the fact that every champ has a dash is a good idea.

Skarner is a travesty of design.

it upsets me so much that skarner almost got a rework

@@averyjefferson2799 yes. After buffs in s10 he became really good. I even started playing. Must say his playstyle is pretty satisfying for me.

Axir is meta right now and has been regularly played in the LEC for several weeks now

@@averyjefferson2799 He needs it but Udyr has been needing one since forever. Throw the guy a bone. (I voted Udyr.)

ww1 skin for azir?

Nah bro, his wall is strong because of the Shurima shuffle that knocks people back into a team after Azir essentially dashing 3 flashes long. It's a combo that they refuse to nerf despite being the only real problem in his kit and instead nerfing every other aspect of his kit but the shurima shuffle. The shurima shuffle is the reason he's played in pro play.. I really wish they'd make him stronger in solo q

@@608midshipcool Nerfing the shuffle would destroy Azir as its high risk, high reward. If you don't do it right you're fucked. And those of us that can have been playing Azir for a loooong time.

@@IncognitoSprax I'm an Azir main, I'm aware, however if I had to nerf or change his kit to make him more suited to non-pro-play, I'd definitely change his ult

In a game where Wind Walls exist the no dash wall is broken...

@@608midshipcool dude if Jhin and Lee Sin can get non-ultimate Executes and Yasuo have a Wind Wall, why can't Azir have at least just that? It's not that he's an extremely mobile champion like Riven or Camille that he can "abuse" that. For me that was a part of his character as well, being this Emperor of Shurima. He could either lead the charge or fight on the sidelines.

Ohhh that would be interesting. Why NO ONE Uses - Omnistone XD

@@VarsVerum I've seen many builds use it, I've seen some twitch top with Omni and I rlly like Omni ChoGath Jg

Dematerializer is my staple rune for TF with electrocute. the wave clear really helps quite a lot.

@@VarsVerum yess do it plss

@@VarsVerum I mean like you should have seen this neeko with omnistone. It was the biggest brain play

God i loved that game

Which soundtrack is this?

@@eydis9554 Temporal Tower

Oh the memories...

Yessss

I agree! I picked him up a few days ago and i just love his entire abillity kit. Its just so fun to play. I have not yet gotten a mvp game with him, but he is such fun even though he is hard! I recomed to pick pick him up!!

hm, i literally played adc, switched to an easier role at least for solo queue and played azir also easy for my standards (i am a top 25 player global in a fighting game which is millions times more mechanical than league) . I only got to a 60 percent winrate. Shit game.

@@cybercipher5770 , dude its so cool! didn't knew minecraft have 25 top players, keep it up kid!

@@GameChanelCompany brawhalla

How are rell or viego overloaded, viego needs a buff ffs.

@@liandrysanguishinshin7955 Viego is an overpowered jungler

@@liandrysanguishinshin7955 rell is the most op shit they've released in awhile

@@not_varij wrong, viego is an overpowered jungler and mid laner and top laner

In the case of Viego, People are only now understanding how to play him. It's similar to how Yuumi had the lowest winrate before, not because she was weak but because no one knew how to play her during the first two weeks of her release. And that was the reason she became extremely annoying and OP after the buffs even though it wasn't needed.

tbh azir never needed this, because he's already insanely fast at destroying turrets. And you still can use W to break turrets faster, kinda. With the 3 soldier attack speed bonus. :)

@@crankpatate3303 now he could use it again, back in the day you were getting 10%atkspeed per 10%cdr which it made that w usage redundant. Nowdays it would be a nice addition again

and when his E have knock up when you hit enemy and the unpassable wall of his R when enemy try to pass it the soldier will push back? oh good old days.

@@abdulkarimelnaas7595 exactly

@@crankpatate3303 Bad news, Riot gutted him.

Gotta love how Riot nerfs high skill champions even though the point of the champion type is too reward u for playing it well.

I don't get why riot balances around the top 1 percent of players makes it less interesting for everyone else.

@@TheYetiLifts riot pretty much have to though, or they'll utterly dominate high level play, as we've seen many examples of over the years.

@@johnsmith-de2py what ? No no no. Other way around. Why Riot even cares about people under Diamond 2 in balance ? I think they should ignore data from this rangs 90% of the time

@@magieenvtuber9783 idk about you but balancing around the top 2% in a game sounds dumb

Azir has been in one of his best states in a long time for months now :p

man I've felt this. I feel the same way, I used to play Azir only in season 7, and he felt great. If I made mistakes, then i knew that losing a game was most likely my fault, if I played well however, I could 1v9 almost any game. Playing him now feels like flipping a coin, I can play a near perfect game with no mistakes and still have no chance of winning the game, because my team didn't manage to survive until 23 minutes with all of our inhibs up, at which stage of the game Azir is just not capable of carrying those types of games, like he used to be able to do back in S7.

As an Azir main since his release, proplay literally ruined everything. I deleted the game for a bit and now only play unranked but Azir in this current state definitely teaches you to play perfect or lose.

@@IncognitoSprax if you're below master you can't complain about the champion, he's only really an issue when you get into grandmaster/challenger and he becomes absolutely useless and meta mids just take over

@@balladani820 It was the range he had back then that gave players the possibility to make up for his weak state by using skill. Riot dont want skill in their game anymore, so they remove it more and more. New azir is a joke to play against pre rework azir, if we are talking about skill ceiling.

what song is it

@@suzaku1679 I think its the time spire from pokemon dungeon adventure team time/darkness

@@Demagogines I'm listening to it right now, it does seem to be the case.

@@suzaku1679 It´s defenitly from the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. Just keep serching there and you will find it eventualy ^^

also reverse his W range of control and attack plus making his passive cd go up to 300s but lasted forever and can have multiple turret

I played one or two ranked games and went back to norms because ranked queue lasts too long lol I also got silver :( I thought I would be better than silver RIP

nah dud ranked is where you learn everything

yeahh.... :((

Nothing but facts.

Like button for nostalgia? :3

@@VarsVerum oh right, thought I had already. Just want to say, I really like your content. Keep it up :) Or, if you want to start doing something new, I'll be here for it :)

Maining the easiest and the hardest champion to play in LoL. Nice!

plus the q buff just feels so good, and was much needed into the ridiculous mobility creep recently

Plus the W nerf :'(

Glad you enjoyed it!

I started playing azir some time after the patch where they removed his stun. He was by far my favorite champ. Took forever to get good with him just needed one more s for mastery 7 but took a long break from lol and came back to find him nerfed into the ground. He really is such a chore to play now haven't touched him since last summer.

They won't. How can they port that, how do you see someone controlling him with joysticks contols ? With the mechanics of auto target or lock target it would be nearly impossible to make his soldiers smooth to move

@@sahoko1868 that's why i am waiting to see how they will port him since feral pony said they change heroes if they have to so they would work on joy stick controls so i want to see what will they do.

@@nannobot1280 But I also Remember they will not port all the champions into the games, but will create new ones who share a similar feeling. I really think the champions that they won't port is the ones who change the map too much or are clunky/unplayable with joysticks, Azir fits this criteria. The only way they could make him work is too make his W a passive ability and making his soldiers permanent around him, and when they are too far they retreat to Azir. Despise that I really don't know. Another Character that I would'nt see ported is Aphelios. With his unique Interface he would be too hard to make work you need to be really smooth by switching weapons. The changes made for characters are really minimals, like Katarina who will move slowly while in ult (so it bring thebpoint of putting Samira in WR), Soraka who have a bigger and badder Q after three heals, Aurelion who can move siwftly while in E... It's just some improvements really. Porting Azir would be remaking him from Zero, at this point, it would be better to make a new character who battle with just one permanent pet

Well they do alot of treatment for some Champions like Ramus and katarina probably they come up with something in their pocket

@@sahoko1868 well there is something they could do an that is to make azir like orriana like one soldier at a time and i think dashing to a soldier isn't to complicated and making the soldier dash isn't complicated aswell. This might be the one and only way to do it

Is Azir that hard ? Like honestly my champ pool is literally all the hardest champs and i am diamond/master player(last time i was master was when i one tricked Viktor tho) and i would say Azir is average in terms of difficulty. He is not up there with Riven, Aurelion, Gangplank, but he is like Aatrox/Ekko/Kalista/Lee sin level difficulty i would say

The drifts with shurima shuffle are satisfying tho. 10 times funnier Lee sin insecs

@@magieenvtuber9783 Depends on how you define difficulty. Yes, Riven has a lot of very advanced tech and in order to actually do well with her, you need to be very good with her mechanically. However, her decision-making and playstyle are still very much that of a fighter--that is to say, relatively straightforward. She just happens to have a metric shit-ton of animation cancelling Aurelion is... well... Aurelion 😅 Yes his playstyle is VERY different and that makes him very hard to pick up (as mentioned in Vars' last video), but almost all his difficulty focuses around spacing. I'm not super familiar with GP so I can't comment too much on him. However, in comparison to those first two, Azir has a bunch more going on that contributes to his difficulty. Similar to a lot of the other champions you mentioned (although I wouldn't necessarily agree with Ekko and Aatrox), he has a very high barrier to entry. Hand him to most unsuspecting bronze players and watch them fall flat on their face. What makes him unique from other champions though is that, while their difficulty curves may be more forgiving and taper off after a certain point, Azir's continues to rocket up due to the: decision-making involved in positioning himself (in range of his soldiers while still spacing around allies and enemies), chess-like decision-making--as Vars aptly put it--involved in positioning his soldiers, tech tricks like shuffling/drifting/further combinations, and unorthodox playstyle when compared to more typical champions. This is also what makes him such a strong pick in the hands of pro players. His skill curve, while ridiculously steep the whole way up, is also incredibly high. I wouldn't necessarily say "infinite" like what was mentioned in the video, but it's probably safe to say that no one has reached it yet. Despite that, he can be an absolute monster to go up against, especially with organized teams like those you see in tournaments. And that's why he always gets nerfed into the ground :')

Ikr

Correct! :D

You mean you didn't respect me before? D:

@@VarsVerum LOL i just found your channel last night so we were getting there (;

Because Kata needed it more on her ultimate. Ya know, cause that makes sense

he needs on hit on his soldiers. he's not the same champ, he has less range than most adcs as a mage. on hit would give him damage without bolstering his weak early game with number buffs and also let him take runes like bloodline for sustain because he's just way too short range now to have no sustain built into his kit

Also if any melee champs come up to them they basically have no means of escape aside from r or flash because azir e can’t go through champs

@@chunkycrab7308 E does dmg, if you hit champs on the way and shield is dubled xd

@@chunkycrab7308 it used to knock up too

@@magieenvtuber9783 his shield does not double, it gives him a soldier stack

Were you expecting a personal attack? :^)

@@VarsVerum nah just usually people are completely wrong when they talk about azir but you got pretty much everything on point

it used to be almost twice that, that was the very first thing they nerfed on azir lmao

yup, i always get frustrated if i get owned by a champ with 3 dashes 999 movement speed 1000 dps with 2 items but i'm always impressed when people pull out plays with champs that actually require time to learn them

You can get mad. I think Riven and Azir are the most stupid champ designes with have in game. Like imagine. You make the most broken, radiculous champ with no counterplay, give them into kit everything champion can want and block it behind a skill floor not many players can touch. Wow, what a balance!

@@magieenvtuber9783 One Azir has a lot of counter play, where even someone who has mastered the champ can be brought down hard. Second in Rivens case, she's a prime example of champ with the illusion of difficulty. She's not hard in the slightest, players just let the power trip go to their head and throw common sense out the window, those players usually being the ones that feed. One champ requires commitment and practice, while the other just requires the player to simply keep their common sense intact.

@@Tokumastu1 hard disagree on both. First of Azir does not have counter play other than hoping he is bad and will do mistakes, cause flawless Azir can delete all counter play from his kit. Even flawlesss Ekko, Azir, or Zed do have counterplay, Azir for some reason does not. Second, Riven is hard af, all the animation cancels and mechanically intense gameplay that requires a lot of skill and at least 400 hrs on champ. Still if you learn her it's harder to lose on her, than to win on her even if your macro is like silver and you play in diamond. That is my all players who learned Rivern when auto filled on other champs do about as well, as player 2 devisions lower

@@magieenvtuber9783 One Azir does have counter and again can be shutdown hard, even if he's being piloted by a good player it's all about positioning and keeping track of his cooldowns. Second, yes, Riven is really easy and I speak from experience as someone that mains her. Again the only requirement for riven is not letting the power go to your head.

well where's the diamond?

@@whatsmylife1235 nowhere in sight sadly. Even abandoned playing Azir alltogether (sad I did not get to enjoy the period he was kinda good again). So yea😂

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