Grubby channels his inner FAKER in FIRST AZIR GAME - League of Legends

[@Zoltri]

I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding for how Azir should work. You're basically a Magic Damage based ADC with more steps. Q - Reposition soldiers W - Declare Areas of influence for your attacks E - Reposition R - "Get off me" The Faker Initiation is honestly kind of a trap that a lot of players fall into thinking its the "Correct" way to play, but if you step back and think about what you're doing, Azir is one of the highest sustain DPS characters in the game who scales into a late game monster, you're squishy with extremely limited mobility or CC, and you're launching yourself into the enemy team after spending all of your resources. In 90% of cases, you're suiciding to act as an initiation for your team. In that game specifically, you had Malphite, Ekko and Bard who all have ways to start fights. There's no reason to ever throw yourself into danger to try and "start something" Instead of trying for that play, if you focused on playing from a backline position, saving your E and R to stay safe, and repositioning soldiers to stay on the front line you would've have so much more influence in fights. That's not to say its wrong to do the faker combo, it can be extremely powerful in the right circumstance, but I really would stress it shouldn't be your first thought. You're sacrificing all of what your character excels at for a hail marry play that will likely get you killed, and the question should be, is this play going to influence the fight more in my teams favor then if I just stayed alive and provided DPS and left my options open to use those abilities later in the fight. You can always do that combo later on in the fight when a lot more resources are spent and your teams on the back foot to save lives, or trap enemies, or peel for your carry if they're in trouble.

[@cap-ml7ky]

100% Grubby kept saying marci, but he really plays more like venomancer if anything.

[@daruyami]

very good advice!

[@taffeloo]

@@cap-ml7ky I think he said Mars, not Marci

[@penyu1913]

yea i thought hes going to be like combination of ember+ magnus until i see that the push back thing is HIS ULTIMATE WITH 100 SEC CD

[@raidbossnunu]

You are right, but I think Grubby was just trying out the champs mechanics in the first place.

[@garagavia]

This series has been truly amazing to see both live and on KZbin. I feel like Grubby is bridging the gap between Dota, League and Warcraft, in a new way, without elitism or bullshit. He is open-mindedly exploring and having fun. It's so much fun to watch, I do hope this series continues for a long time. Grubby with your calm composure and team-friendly attitude you could be just the influencer we need to save the League community. Cheers man 👋

[@CyberChunk77]

Agreed. Super fun to watch.

[@ypsiloneksugarek4157]

Using Faker in the thumbnail, im impressed. You're learning the LoL game quickly 👍

[@erikmarklund3033]

this is for the dota players in twitch chat that was unimpressed and didnt understand the hype behind fakers play, let me give you some context to the fight. T1 was behind 4 k gold and JDG were looking to start siege T1s base with baron buff, JDG was ahead of T1 before this fight, so for T1 to hold on and find a window to win, they had to go for a play. the reason why he only ulted a single target was to take down the highest priority target on JDG, which in this game is ruler (varus) their AD carry. Faker manages to catch him out of position and comes straight out of nowhere, predicts the flash from ruler and pins him straight into oners (rell) magnet storm. just because it was a one man ulti doesnt make it a mediocre play, he did everything right in the situation he was in. this was one of the best plays of the tournament! Loving the lol content grubby!

[@battlebots1]

Yeah it was a game winning play and this is good context but I'd still argue that if I was picking an insane azir play to show off the champ and his mechanics, this would not be the most impressive one.

[@erikmarklund3033]

@@battlebots1 absolutely! Correct, faker himself has other more insane clips on azir, i think that people in chat had no context for the play, so it was like people looked down on it, which is a shame, because it was so monumental for this world championship!

[@cap-ml7ky]

Idt ruler was even that poorly positioned, ashe was keeping faker in check, but all it took was a split second for faker to catch ruler. Also, idt most people get why azir is so complex and difficult. People see his Q, E and ult and think that's all there is, but I'd say most of his skill comes from W and soldier placement. No offense, but that Zed was baaaad. Like really bad. Idt he did a single combo right and yet Grubby died to him 4 times. Not only that, but Zed is a winning matchup for Azir. Im not trying to criticize Grubby in any way, what I am saying is that it could of been prevented with good soldier placement, and shows how important it is. Im glad that Grubby was able to do Azir's combos, but he failed to see that Azir is mostly about W placement.

[@erikmarklund3033]

@@cap-ml7ky yeah rulers positioning wasnt that bad at all, fakers engage kind of just came out if nowhere didnt it? My personal opinion is that an ashe support isn’t enough to keep the azir from engaging, i mean what can ashe do other than poke with w and auto attack to slow him down, that doesn’t disable azir from engaging! The zed was pretty bad yeah haha, grubby is new with azir so i cant blame him for not knowing where to correctly place the soldiers

[@jsands5555]

had to look up what "idt" stood for, I DON'T THINK I've ever seen someone use that acronym. Lol.@@cap-ml7ky

[@honordevs]

It's interesting to see how Grubby deals with the same thing new Azir players deal with, specifically: learning how to auto with the soldiers. People get super confused about that and you feel like you can't auto normally (because you can't). It totally changes the game. That said, it's pretty much the only "unique" mechanic about his kit, even though it's a big one, Grubby picked up the other mechs like comboing with shuffle extremely quick and even used it on that Yone. Super impressive for a first game and when he gets the soldiers down, I imagine it will be much better.

[@Taunt61]

the turret is also unique no? i dunno how relevant that is to his kit though.

[@honordevs]

yeah, I mean technically all of his abilities are unique, but all of them are pretty self-explanatory (like most champs). The only one that you can't really "know" from reading it is the way AA interacts with your soldiers. @@Taunt61

[@MaxedEntropy]

I'm surprised chat didn't teach him how to Q and then auto for guaranteed poke before instantly throwing the shuffle tech at him xD

[@Cheeescakes]

The fact that Grubby understood immediately what was going on in the Faker play is impressive for a relatively new player.

[@saimyintmyat9373]

Don't underestimate a 1 year Immortal Reacher.

[@Khanxay]

He should play Zed soon. Understanding what he can do with W/R shadows helps so much with playing against Zed and he's one of the most common champs in mid.

[@smievil]

i assumed faker would be about zed

[@eastwoodnam7120]

Faker what was that !

[@franciscom.bodinho2219]

To master azir, you need to master some of the most difficulty aspects of 2 positions. By far one of the most complex champions on the game

[@aziouss2863]

Ohh next is zed with the mythic 3 positions!

[@legendofbutter556]

@@aziouss2863 cant wait to see him play zed!

[@craigqueen9835]

Lol champions are basics in comparison to dota, I'm sure he will be just fine, I mean you seen him play rts? :D

[@ClashDashRoar]

​​@@craigqueen9835 League champs being difficult does not mean not knowing what the champion does or how to properly use the abilities. Its about how difficult it is to pilot them effectively and snappily in a very quick tempo game where everyone moves and acts quickly and snappily. Its about how difficult it is to reach the same impact as an easier champ would have. Difficulty in RTS and Dota are quite different from eachother, as it is in league. The gameplay, game engine, and the environment dictates that.

[@franciscom.bodinho2219]

@@craigqueen9835 yes i did and yes lol champions are pretty basics in comparasion to dota champions, but, azir is different, he isn't about mechanics, you need to play like an ad carry but have to do micro manegements like a control mage and thats why he is so diffycult to learn, you need to already have a awareness of both positions, a control mage mid laner and an hyper ad carry

[@evsya7674]

I'm kind of sad twitch chat did not chose Aphelios, his kit is a fun puzzle to solve. Azir though is definetely still interesting, in that, similarly to Kalista, Azir sees and has seen a LOT of consistent competitive play but has a very low pick rate in ranked. So perhaps in a way, Aphelios is more complex to 100% master, but Azir is a lot more punishing if played poorly so the skill curve required to learn him is a lot steeper. Aphelios you can sort of wing in the first few games even if you don't fully understand what you're doing x) Azir tho... you end up going 0/0/12 or smth lol. (I did)

[@Wolfboy607]

azir might seem simple compared to hwei's 10 abilities, but azir requires significantly higher apm to play effectively. Plus, his abilities are very versatile, he's DPS but he also has the Shurima shuffle, insec plays, and the turret

[@nelmvn]

14:45 - That bronzy chatter said "that's one man ult, were you hyped for this" JDG have Baron Buff and have Gold Lead. T1 are losing this game and yet Faker able to catch Ruler (ADC) from bottom corner and he predicted his Flash. Since their ADC is gone, they have less damage now, JDG forced to fight and tried to kill T1's ADC but they failed and they lose the match. Faker turned the table and won the match, because of 1 man ulted. ULT is not meant for 5 man ult all the time, you know.

[@sinner5452]

Nice to see you're so determined to play LoL even in Dota camp xD Remake occures when some player failed to log in match. The rest of his team may type /remake command in chat after 2 minutes ingame and then remake vote occur. If at least one player agrees with vote, match ends with no cosequences for anyone exept for leaver. No rank point are gained or lost, no account exp granted, etc, like it never happened. Minion aggro works pretty simple in general - minions defend champions. Minions will attack you if you land direct hit against enemy champion while you being in some radius around minions, by autoattack or targetable spell, with some exeptions. To reset that aggro you supposed to run away from minions a bit. Thats worth get familiar with in practice tool, coz thats very easy to lose half HP in exchange of 2 autos in early game. And you can bait opponent below gold level to do so too -)

[@bexclue3007]

Haven't watched yet but I wonder if someone in his chat told him that Azir is one of the champs with by far the highest skill floor in the game (statistically speaking and it makes sense, given his kit). It's a very strong champ but only has a positive wr in challenger bc, well, skill issue. Looking forward to what his own first impression is gonna be like

[@kristinnerlingsson]

Thank you, Grubby, for this series; it breathes a fresh wave of joy into my perspective on this game.

[@witnessazir5693]

When grubby is playing my champ, i have to look into it...

[@peffiSC2source]

Really enjoyed you looking at pro plays, now that you know what is going on and trying to recreate the signature moves. I hope this becomes a staple of this series :)

[@07ilyes]

i really appreciate your progress in this game, because it's very hard to start this game in 2023, this game became such a high tempo comparing to the old days, which makes it much harder to play, everything happen so fast & everyone dealing so much dmg in short amount of time

[@peffiSC2source]

Good choice. Because reading through all of Aphelios' spells would get Grubby removed from the LoL section on Twitch and put into the "just chatting" section for a few hours.

[@MotoManDan1]

Nice work! I hope you are able to review really old popular at the time footage of league such as the "MacLaren's Pro Player Anivia Pro Guide Pro" and Phreaks "Lulu jungle guide"

[@ElSpoon]

I think it'd be really fun if you tried Xerath. Hes an artillery mage that can deal massive damage

[@Wickecl94]

“Tonnes of damage”

[@777paito]

Or no damage at all 😂

[@sinsei2165]

He only has damage and that's both great and bad

[@nilmerg]

​@@sinsei2165 ? he has some CC & mana sustain as well

[@sinsei2165]

@@nilmerg his CC is very unreliable and his mana sustain is a technically holding him back since he need to go up and auto

[@kornwazswan5912]

I’ve already subscribed you. It’s really fun game that made me fun a lot. Azir is one of my favorited champions, he’s really fun to play and I’m waiting to see you play him again.

[@marcoderry9349]

About the conversation "who's the most difficult champ": I don't think that an objectively MOST difficult champ exists, however, there is a large variety of champs that are considerated "mechanically difficult" that rely on your ability to outplay the opponent in order o get ahead in the game (while going even would mean that you become useless in most cases). Depending on the position that most interests you I would be down to give some suggestions if that's what you're looking for. @grubby

[@Miziru]

thing about azir is his kit is unique, other difficult champs especially with the same generic mobility like kata, irelia, or yas that feels the same. so if u mastered yas for example and want to try irelia, mastering her wont be as hard as u will play her for the first time, since her kit is pretty similar with other high-mobility champs, so u will know when to use those dashes/blink/etc., at the right time, since those are their signature moves.

[@marcoderry9349]

@@Miziru Exactly, therefore starting with one that is unique to the point where you can't really translate any skill you learn to other champs is counterproductive to a new player. Irelia is good for new players because you learn how to auto reset very well and how to handle the dashes. She can't really do much else. Azir is the opposite

[@Chertograad]

I'm sure you'd like Twisted Fate. He was one of my favorite champions when I started League. He's got a long range teleport (not global like Nature's Prophet) as his ult that also reveals enemies sort of like Zeus' ultimate from Dota. The coolest thing about his kit is that his W is a spell that depending on your choice can do three different things: It'll either hit with large damage and give you back some mana (blue card), he'll do moderate damage and do area of effect splash damage (red card) or it'll do low damage but be a unit-target stun via right-click (gold card). He's extremely fun to play at mid!

[@TheNinjaPoodle]

That clean combo for the trade plus flash cd actually impressive!

[@nineflames12]

Watched the vod for this, good stuff Grubs :)

[@kyoyeou5899]

Mate, your series made me restart the game, and I can see how I have grown as a person. I have not played in a Year and a Half (A few months before Yuumi Change for the people) And I'm having fun! I played 6 games these last days, got 2S a S+ a 2A and a C

[@AcencialAMV]

27:40 You asked if you should push out or just let the denies happen. In League generally (specially on mid with a champ who has a good clear) the answer is to push out UNLESS there is more ranged minions on the enemies side. Mid lane at a high level is basically a game where you're playing the wave and trying to create situations where you can freeze. But if your turret tags the enemy melees like here and you have your wave coming faster than the enemies , they probably won't lose a single cs. In this situation if you pushed out right away you would've had what we call "prio (priority)" in league, so you'd have the first move to be able to ward a bit deeper into the enemy jungle, help your jungler, hover for a bot gank (since there is no wave for at least 30 seconds on mid) or harass Zed under tower if you know where Lee is. It's hard to figure out, but it's great that you're asking that question so early into your lol journey, hope this came across helpful!

[@KevinKanthur]

His Azir is already better than mine. Edit: Also it's really impressive the part where he reviews Faker's play how he can understand a lot of things about it.

[@Nuvizzle]

Minion aggro in league is on any autoattack or targeted ability. Skillshots and aoes don't aggro unless they count as an autoattack like Ezreal Q. Aggro resets automatically after a few seconds of not attacking or if you break line of sight. Turrets work differently, which you probably already realized, any damage to enemies under turret will aggro the turret until you move out of its range, including damage over time effects. The Scorch rune in particular deals extra delayed damage which is a leading cause of taking stray turret aggro when you don't think about it.

[@sqicyo_0432]

next time will be 100 times better im sure, looking forward to that :) realy fun to see you learning the game

[@lesarandmira3689]

"Azir doesn't do much damage"😂😂😂 I hope he meets an Azir main in-game on the opponents side🤣

[@LucasSilva-zg6xy]

The video - "makes me wanna play league again" The intro background music - "makes me wanna play oblivion again"

[@yGKeKe]

That first ult combo to knock Zed into the turret was pretty well done. Most players ult in the wrong direction because they press R in the button combo before their cursor gets into the right position lol. Also, people in League tend to conflate champion complexity with mechanical difficulty. Azir is a difficult champion to master, but he's not "Complex." Aphelios is probably one of the only champions in the game that is legitimately "Complex."

[@MikeSieko17]

it's not that tough to pull off, but to do it on such a high level is what is impressive and to predict the flash, the movement itself is not IMO

[@oilslicknl]

Awesome that you pulled of that shurima shuffle on zed in your first game❤

[@Merelyfish]

Azir was my main when I was still playing so I'm so excited to see you play him and probably way better than I ever did. You almost make me consider going back!

[@abunja]

Azir standing on top of Zed's shadow like he's accepting his fate lol. I think Azir is a steep increase in difficulty compared to previously played champions. Sand Soldiers don't automatically attack nearby targets meaning they don't work like a sentry as they only serve as an extension of Azir's basic attack. Placement is the key, too many times the soldiers would placed near the enemy champion and expecting a poke rather than in the middle of enemy minion wave. Learning to weave attack on move while maintaining within the range of the soldier. The dash is a two-way tool to engage or to escape, but often time Grubby would throw himself in the enemy line, catching the enemy skill shot even. It's good that Grubby watched World's Azir play, but that play is high risk. But now that Grubby saw it, he instinctively try to do the same and throw himself in the enemy line. Here's a plan. Whenever Grubby lose in a lane matchup (Jungle included), he'd play the enemy champion in the next game (unless it's a previously played champ). Often times Grubby is screwed by not knowing what the enemy can and able to do. In normal matchup, Zed would never stand a chance against Azir since he'll be constantly shoved away from the minion wave, and he can't trade evenly since he's melee and his engage kit is limited to his shadow. Zed looked strong in this game but a recent reveal from a Riot dev that Zed is being kept weak intentionally because he's a frustrating champ to deal with in low elo. In this case, Grubby didn't understand what Zed and his shadow is able to do leading to a lost lane. Anyways, keep it up. You are learning little by little. The intricacies of a champ can only be learned upon constant playing.

[@liberatesweden2404]

36:00 lets always call cannonminions "the car" now 😂🎉❤

[@buppen]

Put Zac on your list! He is one of the health users (instead of mana/energi/cd) and he is a tank with alot of cc and dmg. Can be played in all roles except adc. Ap/hybrid or full tank (tank being the easiest). Day 1 😊

[@underscore5673]

hard to tell the difference between fakers azir and grubbys azir, but i think faker played with the t1 skin at the redbull tournament. thats mainly how i tell them apart

[@zonuphaon]

It's so funny to watch someone have such intuitive game knowledge of general mechanics like understanding the extension of cast ranges over walls, etc., yet also have more or less no idea how an original Hero like Nasus works because he simply hasn't been played against yet.

[@markusSmith]

i want to see you play "Zed" sometime soon he is a kinda hard champ/hero to play but when you know what you are doing he is VERY fun to play!

[@msalverio9]

Practice positioning W better, in your melee wave, in spots to zone off enemy movement/escape. Poke enemy with Q, and AA after Q as long as they are in your Soldier's range. That's the only thing you should be thinking about learning Azir. Avoid tunnel vision e.g. moving to far forward or blindly moving into bad positions to try and do damage. Your damage is based off items and speed, thats why his last hits suck early game and without items your speed is slow. Very important to remember basics "Azir is a "scaling champ," and play accordingly. Forget trying to pull of "Azir combos" for at least 5-10 games. You pulled it off after this timestamp, which was impressive, but it was extremely lucky as well. Good game as usual tho. 29:28 very good example of when to use R. When enemy is out of position, they're to close to your tower, and their dash/escape is on cool down.

[@Rusty-8203]

i only noticed now that azir's voice is similar to Karax in SC2. ( same VA)

[@AdmiralVortex]

Whoever needs to read this: The reason Zhonya's Hourglass is a counter to Zed is because it has ARMOR, not because of the stasis (though the stasis does help, the armor does WAY more to keep you alive) I'm glad they're removing the Stopwatch and adding the effect to Seeker's Armguard, it will hopefully help make Zed easier to balance

[@souloffrog1981]

I just need more grubby league. Watched him for over 7 years it hink and always wanted to see him play lol. Great!

[@oguzcanoguz5977]

Pity you had to match up with Zed, learning a champ like Azir is tough enough, but trying to deal with Zed when you dont know what he does is even harder.

[@thizzabeat8327]

Als een nederlandse azir main je eerste potje zo te zien is echt verbazingwekkend. hij is zeker een van de moeilijkste champs om te begrijpen. keep it up!

[@ChacksenRsps]

The early games can look so weird. But I'm glad that you and your viewers are enjoying the content and the game. Welcome!

[@Erik_Dz]

After trying the hardest champ you should try one of the easiest. Nasus, you sit top lane, never roam, then just farm, push down the lane and force the entire enemy team to deal with you. You either win 1v5 or force the enemy team away from objectives to deal with you.

[@ags8507]

28:30 any free damage to the enemy laner is a good trade in your favor, doesnt matter if its an auto attack or half their hp, its little wins like this that make you win lane as the damage accumulates over time, azir excels at poking low range champs, but his early power is subpar since he is a late game champ

[@zebedeesummers4413]

While this is true I think he was noting how many resources he put in to get just a little bit of damage off. I'm confidant he is aware from being good at Dota and HOTS that good trades are good.

[@abunja]

@@zebedeesummers4413it's not. Damage accumulated over time leads them to the enemy's kill range so it's necessary not to take too much damage in lane even with the presence of recovery items. Sand soldiers can be put in the middle of the enemy minion wave for fast clear, while also fending off any attempts of a melee champ to hit autos on ally minion wave. It's a good practice in lane to poke enemy in their last hits because they can't fight back. It's also not a good lane comparison with other games such as Dota as they have couriers to keep them stay in the lane by fetching recovery items, while there's no such thing as poke punish because creep denying is active.

[@CZ2_Delta]

Weird request, a lot of people will ask you to play their main next. But as for myself, I ask that you wait until you get coached a bit till you play my main, Kayn in jungle. Series have been fun can't wait to see the coaching and more champs first times. Just saw your Bard game from vod was funny af xDD

[@ratknight6183]

Why wait? Kayn is not complicated at all. Even if he doesn't clear "the right way" he'll be fine.

[@CZ2_Delta]

@@ratknight6183 He would be ''fine'' but having 2 forms is already a notch above most champs in terms of difficulty ceiling. Also it's very easy to int on Kayn early on if you don't know proper pathing haha. Tbh since he goes over every champ once, I'd just like him to be more experienced with the game before trying him out that's all! Also I hope he does 2 games, one blue and one red, to be fair to the champion ^^

[@pokeness686]

Chat gave you some bad information. You do NOT max q first. Thats outdated. Max order is W > Q > E on Azir

[@Jonas-tf3im]

I enjoy every video of u Grubster, keep on playing and improving ure doing great !!

[@smievil]

40:35 yone dashes in and recalls to earlier position eventually. zed can swap places with his shadows lee jumps around blindly

[@msalverio9]

37:13 you said "idk what happened there" when zed killed you. You died because you stood still during his ultimate, he has item advantage (mythic), and his mythic passive makes him immune to damage after kills. Zed is trying to gap close onto you or cast an image in range of you, to slow you, with E and hit you with his Q. If your standing still during his ultimate and you get hit by 3 versions of zed's E and Q before his ultimate explodes, he's going to 100-0 you, depending on his level lead/ items/ farm etc. zed's kit.. Q - Throw shuriken W1 - Mirrors Image W2- Switch position with Mirror Image E - AoE Melee Slow R1 Mirror Images + starts a ticking bomb (all dmg he does before the bomb explodes is added to bomb dmg) R2 Switch position with Mirror Image In a nut shell, don't stand still during Zed R

[@Alyest]

This cool camera cut is cool

[@spookyjr3968]

Having chat is such an advantage. It took me 8 games to realize that Azir ult can be use to push enemies in tower. I bought Azir on release so everyone is bad.

[@FedyaRu]

Azir is definitely top3 of the hardest champions in league. You did well, good job!

[@jsonkody]

Long ago I was Azir main. He is not so complicated. Very fun to watch and play. Very fun & strong late game.

[@adampopovsky9305]

Just started playing azir week ago and took me few games to practice his combos like w+e+q and hitbix on ultimate. Also its hard to have soldiers on right place when casting your ult.

[@inthezone3893]

At 30:03 he went through Zed with his E?? Why the dash didn't stop when he collided with the enemy champ?

[@BronzeDragon0009]

Oh cool my main. I have played many hours of this champ. I am not amazing at league but this champ took me 60+ games to stop absolutly initing on him. Cant wait to see your reaction to him. Edit: Wow you got very unlucky playing Zed your first game. Zed and heavy poke champs like Oriana are by far the hardest matchups for Azir. While I don't see you playing much more of him I am supprised your chat didnt say Azir is a scaling champ. His early game is very weak and if you spam q he has mana issues till you get lost chapter first back. After that balancing spam poking with q and getting as many minions as possible is priority. Your not exacly aiming to kill but to poke the enemy down to pacify the lane. If the enemy takes a bad trade it becomes a very difficult game for them. Kills are possible when you either ult them back to your tower or when they disrespect you enough to take multiple bad trades and get low although this is very rare against his poor matchups. Also chat showing that Faker clip was int because it made you think he was an exclusive play maker. While he can make some insane plays his primary role is acting as area denial and an adc that happens to go mid. He is likely the best champ in the game for playing front to back fights in the late game so a lot of the time just staying alive and hitting is better than going in. GGs, always glad to see more Azir games.

[@Akuina14]

for your ward question you dont ward early in game wards stay for a certain amount of time and junglers 90% of the time has to do 3 to 6 camp clear before ganking at that time you ward will be out of time you look for the put ward down around minute 3 to 4 where do you will put something you will learn in time you put down ward depends on enemy junglers route

[@Wombat-rs9pd]

Azir is a champion that can get absolutely rolled if you cannot space properly. Thats what makes him so difficult because in the right hands they will use the soldiers to AA without getting hit in return. If your spacing is bad you will feel like the champion is so fragile.

[@simhanssens7331]

Grubby instantly getting complex aspects of the game like the 50% rule of walls and anticipating a timed flash of varus. Really makes me think he could get really high rank in most any game (Atleast top downs :P) And I don't mean the point that he gets it (most players get it through experience with the game or video's), I mean the speed as an inexperienced League player at which he gets it.

[@SabberKante]

God im happy as soon as he will try out kog'maw and jhin. my absolute favorites.

[@bagyitaw]

backseat Grubby when you can, Summoners. Grubby's rank will rise above the dregs in his chat in no time.

[@Ecaea]

Azir is easy to play but hard to master contrary to what people kept on telling you. Mastery and playing the champ is 2 diff thing. Stop trying to shuffle enemy backwards every time , it usually only worth it when the wave is in your tower and enemy is hovering your tower with no flash or escape or you're in a teamfight and everyone is waiting for your shuffle initiation. Otherwise you use it defensively to get assassins tanks and fighters off your ass. Also try to place a soldier in between the range and the melee enemy minions all the time , it zones enemy away from hiding behind their waves , creating more opportunity for your teammate to gank , it essentially allows you to poke them if they're a melee mid trying to cs , and it also allows you to creep all cs in the wave without cleaving all of them and unintentionally hard shoving the wave. Azir is not an all-in champion early game and you shouldn't be playing him that way , play cautiously and always have 1 soldier on standby for your E to get out of a gank. Azir should always punish melee/short range midlaners for trying to creep. Max Q to W , buy nashor tooth/zhonya 2nd depends on whether you're winning or losing. Tbh in this match that you played against Zed , couldve just went nashor seeing how poorly the zed is playing. Am i the only 1 here that feels that theres so much Azir d1ckriding just because Faker did a goated play on the champ and now everyone is making it seems like Azir needs 200 IQ to play or smth? I still couldn't understand how people consider a champ like this is hard. Hes basically the safest midlaner next to Ahri.

[@abunja]

He's not mechanically hard, but APM intense hard. He can't even squeeze damage out of the Sand Soldiers without sitting like a pigeon (get it?). If the enemy decides to tank the damage and trade with him and he decides to not weave then he's toast.

[@gabsterrivera5674]

On the topic of minion aggro: If you use an ability and hit ONLY the enemy champ, you get minion aggro IF the minions are in range. If you use an ability and hit the enemy champ AND minions either simultaneously or the minions first, then you DON'T get minion aggro even if minions are obviously in range Obviously if you hit champ outside minion aggro range, then you don't get aggro at all in the first place

[@MiguelThePig]

Hearing Oblivion music in 2023 is reigniting my soul

[@radix2830]

Through these Videos I noticed how many little interactions there are in league, that arent explained anywhere.

[@LoLVillinn]

watching this video i learned that if you E and hit an enemy you gain a solider charge, never knew that1 Thanks Grubby!

[@Smurez]

Oh this is gonna be good. One of the hardest champs, good luck

[@IXxKratosxXI]

no idea why azir is considered to be one of the most complicated champs out there... im not a mid player and was in jungle last 11 years, but there are way more deep and hard to pull off champs than azir.

[@kotoririp4975]

any news on the alois/pobelter coaching?

[@nickmilo932]

I think you'll have a lot of fun playing heimerdinger

[@CASS1__]

I wanna see you get coached and learn the really technical stuff, I know you'd be able to get a good grasp around it

[@floatingjarl7298]

a good trading combo with azir is using w infront near enemy and then auto into q auto. Fast trade very strong poke

[@Spooky_Spookerson]

Azir is difficult to pick up you always have to have an understanding of both you and your soldiers. Otherwise they are standing there not attacking. His combos are relatively straight forward but require really good execution to actually do anything. Also champs like Zed can just use their own teleports to close the distance and make your R useless, pretty good counter to Azir honestly. Unlucky

[@thebigman2767]

please try out the grand general, Swain! he's a mid lane/bot lane mage and is very fun to play

[@vinni2773]

watching u play my favourite champ made my day

[@pricesmith8450]

Ramisra, don't forget the project.

[@Wonback]

The master of shadows incoming!?

[@Plonom]

I have not seen the vid yet, but it has to be a banger

[@UnStop4ble]

yo did you change your setup? the lighting seems to be worse than usual

[@AspectPL]

Excellent micro for power plays but poor overall laning phase. The biggest mistake was constantly being full mana, you should basically spam Q to secure cs and to keep Zed away from your minions.

[@AspectPL]

Another thing: This lane is about hurting him enough pre-6 to the point you can win a duel when he all-ins you after 6, and he almost always will try to do that and one of you dies at level 6-8.

[@MartialNico]

Zed a complicated champion? He's not complicated, he's just flashy. You could say he's mechanically difficult, sure, but complicated? I don't know what part of his kit can be considered complicated?

[@MatmatNV]

Exactly, Even GP has more complicated kit than zed. hitting those sollarbacca like barrels is hard to pull off if you don't play him enough

[@tudornaconecinii3609]

@@MatmatNV The hard part about gp is that you have a limited number of barrels, enemies can clear your barrels, and you have basically no range except with your barrel combos, making you overall very hard to teamfight with. He is *relatively* braindead to 1v1/lane with though, and if you crush lane hard enough it's better to stay on the split than to group with your team anyway. I'd say someone becomes competent at that in only 30 gp games.

[@Ebinification]

Cool seeing your reaction to the worlds play. @grubby Expand on your death recaps to learn about enemies and tips on how to avoid dying to them. Good game, if only your viewers had suggested you learn zed first I bet you woulda carried a game like this :p

[@garagavia]

Azir is fun. He is quite hard to play, but learning to haras in a melee matchup with him is a good time

[@CouchCommando_]

Has scaling Champions been explained to him yet? From the couple of videos I checked out he seems to check out the Champs in practice, but no equip items on them.

[@idiothead5511]

he understands scaling lmfao, he plays other mobas. he is intentionally not paying too much attention to items because there's so much to learn.

[@notsofast3748]

Grubby you should try rengar top/jungle he is very fun and would be very interesting to see you play him

[@marcus2259]

With enough experience, No matter what champ and role (except bot) As long as you know its good match up and get ahead early, then Its better to rush boots first item so you can roam to other lanes /sometimes enemy jungle and go back to your lane faster. For adc/bot lane, Your basic rotation is to always push tower one by one each lane ( tier 1 bot to tier 1 mid etc.) If enemy push faster, you can stay bot if you have another range ally or mirror them in other lanes they switched to, to prevent them from pushing faster w/ their range advantage. You'll notice as you go higher rank, bot lane switch to mid if they get ahead since mid is an easier lane to push. Sometimes to top if top ally push faster. If your whole team is ahead, 1-3-1 is common push strat Top - SuppJglBot - Mid Or 4- 1 SupJglBotMid - Top w/TP to regroup.

[@yGKeKe]

It's actually crazy that you managed to be this wrong in one post.

[@zebedeesummers4413]

its amazing how much variance there is in free advice.@@yGKeKe All with good intentions too!

[@rudegameplays2458]

Keep going on league browsky! There are a lot of interesting champs :) try arena mode for fun!

[@chrisegg7936]

was this game recorded earlier than some of the others? Grubby seems less aware of some basic stuff than he was for some earlier uploads.

[@endritqerkini4819]

I really hope u try zed next, funnest champ in the game by far

[@Ephemerthefish2525]

This champion is hard due by positioning as well as the setting up your ult to insect carries or many of the enemies

[@fraggler0c]

hmmm talking about most complex champs ... would Aphelios be considered one? - Reading his skills tooltip (skills thesis paper) is almost equivalent to seeing that PoE talent tree for the first time. Woe to the person who tries to learn him but for the rest of us - we just learn to back off when we see the red + white icons on him.

[@wisdomandy9361]

I'd say Azir, Zoe, Leb, Aphil and Zeri are the big daddy difficult to master champs. There's probably another 5-10 that fit a similar mold though.

[@flamypow]

Azir is not only mechanically difficult in 5s team if you can coordinate pushes the passive can put absurd amount of pressure on the map. Hard micro hard macro