12 of the HARDEST Champions to MASTER properly in Season 10

Let's look at some champions that you're likely never going to truly master while playing League

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[angryyordle]

Yasuo is the hardest to master caus he's banned every game so it's impossible to learn him

[deejayf]

"he'll be 0/8 on your team" that's incorrect! Because then he wouldn't hit his 0/10 power spike!

[AtlasDuval]

Azir should actually be at the top. A truly good Azir makes a game feel stupidly oppressive. Even great yasuo players still feed but a great Azir legitimately is near impossible to kill

[migueldelacruz]

Just played with a challenger one trick lee sin yesterday. It was like watching poetry.

[momohead]

I think we can all agree “Master Yi” is the hardest to master

[midgetthingers]

List for people that want to first time these in ranked:
Yasou 0:35

Leblanc 2:00

Lee sin 3:56

Nidalee 5:49

Gangplank 6:53

Azir 8:54

Kalista 9:39

Thresh 11:23

Zed 12:52

Katarina 13:54

Riven 14:29

Ezreal 15:56 

Draven 16:42


Irelia 17:07


Sylas 17:33

[yousefabouelseoud]

To be honest, even if I am a mastery 7 Thresh with 1 million mastery points, I still feel like I'm learning new things.

[zak]

I think there's an argument to be made for Bard, but most of his difficulty comes from his macro heavy play style.

[bartoszganko]

14:10 what dagger rng ? Her dagger always lands behind the original target

[angryyordle]

No Garen in here? I'm disappointed

[Squidkun]

14:10 what do you mean slight rng with her daggers. As a 400k+ one trick Kat main this makes no sense.

1. Her Q will ALWAYS land vertically from the original thing she has hit. They go straight, not diagonal or horizontal.

2. The hardest part about kat (imo) is laning phase. You have no prio the during the wave and must farm with q. A good kat will know her power spikes. (Lvl2, lvl3, lvl6, and gunblade)

3. Mechanics with kat during team fights. Some people just mash their keyboard and get lucky with the heavenly amount of daggers all over the floor. You need to know when to Q, to bait with W E etc. Her combos are not hard, but hard to be put in game.

4. Matchup knowledge and runes. With certain matchups you will take different runes or however you like to play kat. She has 3 main runes. Electricute, dark harvest, and conq. You will have to adjust ur play style based on the different runes. Kat has many difficult matchups. And she is EXTREMELY vulnerable to cc.

5. Roaming. If you have played league of legends you know what roaming is. Because its harder to win lane, you have to know basic wave management to give yourself roam opportunities. Kats play style can sometimes be played like talon. Shove lane, roam.

And uhh I think that's about it, sorry for the big ego lmfao, im just sad she got the least time in there And called her daggers RNG.

[SmugHomura]

There's always a very interesting dynamic when it comes to champion skill. First of all people need to start speaking in terms of skill floor and skill ceiling as the word 'skill' itself is way to vague. In any case, champions with lots of options to approach a problem (like a Zed, Thresh, or Lee sin) have high skill ceilings to be able to maximize their potential but don't always have high skill floors because having so many options also means you can tackle problems in different ways if one doesn't work out. You also usually have an easier time escaping a bad situation or cheesing/outplaying someone. Champions with few options (like a Garen, Mundo, Yi, Veigar) don't really have the highest skill floors because they're more stat-checky in nature. Either you have enough stats to make the play work or you're too weak and it doesn't work. But having fewer options, while easier to pick up, also brings with it the challenge of having to outplay your opponent with fewer tools. You can't do many 200IQ plays to surprise your opponent. You know what you're gonna do, they know what you're gonna do, yet you still need to win despite your approach being foretold centuries ago by Mayan tablets. You have to up your macro game on those low skill floor champions because your micro play is definitely not going to win you the game.

[Siventis]

I was kinda expecting champs like..
Aatrox, Viktor, Rengar. Since they're not as good as other champs but can easily out perform many others based on the players personal skill.

[blackmug]

Katarina's dagger isn't RNG. It will always land at the back of the unit you cast.

[christhis]

8:02 noone thought aphelios was hard.
Everyone thought he was overtuned and stupid, yes. But not hard

[lyg]

Having so many assasins the game, Aurelion Sol or Xerath should be here because they are pretty much impossible to play. lol

[squatzzi]

Difference between gp and aphelios is that aphelios throws everything at once and gp has more of a progression with just autoing ur barrel to connecting and going over harder and harder combos

[nikolapesic]

Azir main here. I've played Azir like crazy for the past half a year, almost 100k points, two S's away from M7 and honestly, failing a simple w+e+q is a standard regularity. Not to mention e+q+r combo! I've played a lot of champions and Azir is the only one with whom a micro second delay costs you the whole play and, more often then not, your life. He's the most fun and most difficult champ to play. Agreed. A massive risk to lock in from bronze to diamond, a massive advantage from Master to Pro play.
'The order is given!'

[youneskasdi]

I'm pretty sure akali deserves a spot on this list

[nikolakrastev]

I am a quite new Azir player (I just earned lv5 mastery on him) and probably the hardest thing about him is that you can't get away with being a mediocre Azir player(most of the time). If you aren't at least good you will lose almost every game. If you master him though you will be a beast.