In League of Legends the veteran Faker won a match at Worlds single-handedly on Sunday, November 12, with a spectacular play, looking both cool and powerful at the same time. However, while trying to emulate the “unstoppable demon king” and shine with Azir, LoL players are failing.
This is the situation:
- Last Sunday, the semi-finals at Worlds took place between T1 and JDG, it was a fantastic match watched by 4.3 million people.
- The highlight of the match was a move by T1’s mid-laner, Faker: The 27-year-old managed a spectacular play with the ultimate of the hero “Azir”. He was able to completely surprise the enemies, leading to his team’s immediate victory.
- Now many people have started to play Azir as well to imitate Faker. After all, Azir is his most played champion. But that is not working out.
Faker overwhelms the best team in the world and wins immediately
What a play it was! The opponents from JDG were on the attack, holding a gold advantage, and were attacking T1’s base. The Koreans seemed scattered, JDG launched a massive attack.
However, Faker managed to get behind the enemies at the start of the teamfight with a clever combination of his abilities on Azir and take out the opposing key player Ruler immediately from the match. Through perfect teamwork with his teammates, who anticipated where each enemy would be after Faker’s attack, T1 was able to overwhelm and eliminate the world-class team JDG.
Faker looked like the absolute mastermind and a genius in the process.
Azir is played almost twice as often after the Worlds, but people are losing
Here’s the catch: In a classic case of “Don’t try this at home”, many LoL players have tried to play Azir in the days following Faker’s genius move.
His pick rate rose from 3.4% to 6.5%. So Azir can now be seen in almost twice as many LoL games as before.
However, Azir’s win rate has fallen from 48.1% at the beginning of the Worlds, down to 47.1%, and now to 46%. At first glance, that doesn’t sound like much, but since the “normal win rate” for any LoL champion should be 50%, a loss of 2% is a significant drop.
As the site 3Djuegos reports, this decline was to be expected when so many people start playing Azir in LoL simultaneously.
Chinese statistics (via 101.qq) have shown that players lose more often than they win in their first 50 games with Azir. The win rate is at 46%.
Only after game 51 do players slowly begin to understand Azir and the win rate rises to 51%. Playing Azir is not like most mid-laners, where the goal is to deal as much damage as quickly as possible; with this hero, it’s much about repositioning and pushing opponents around against their will.
More about Faker:
LoL: Normal people see Faker’s screen during a World Championship match – Can’t handle it
