What is the hardest champ in the game to play?

I Support Solar·8/18/2018, 2:33:16 AM·3 votes·4,786 views

A lot of people on these boards always complain about supposedly "easy, no skill" champions that kill them without trying.

Now, let's find the opposite. ;)

What, in your opinion, is the most difficult champion in the game to play?

39 Comments

AnAggravatedPimp8/18/2018, 2:39:43 AM7 votes

Anivia

I've watched a friend fall asleep playing her. Hardest champ to play because staying awake is part of the skill curve

HP Crookshanks8/18/2018, 2:54:15 AM4 votes

Hardest Top: Camille Hardest Jungle: Nidalee Hardest Mid: Azir Hardest ADC: Draven Hardest Support: Rakan

Easiest Top: Garen Easiest Jungle: MasterYi Easiest Mid: Annie Easiest ADC: Yasuo Easiest Support: Sona

MrFawknSunshine8/18/2018, 2:37:05 AM4 votes

Azir

Malak8/18/2018, 2:46:28 AM3 votes

Karthus I don’t know if he should be on the list but his main skill shot Q takes a lot of practice. Probably one of the hardest, and you need to hit it for a large portion of your damage and you gotta hit it every second.

Frosted Tips8/18/2018, 2:44:29 AM3 votes

Gangplank is up there idk for sure if hardest but I'm not including things that are super team reliant or nerfed for competitive reasons. Timing is key and knowing your barrel distances and surviving early are difficult.

AR URF8/18/2018, 5:26:20 PM2 votes

According the boards. Immobile mages and tanks.

PopcornBunni8/18/2018, 4:16:45 AM2 votes

Not Azir

Elise and Nidalee come to mind having skillshots, short dashes, in nidalee's case also requiring extra planning to make use of her traps, and managing a set of 7 abilities in combos.

Colton1478/18/2018, 4:18:50 AM2 votes

Corki Lux Ziggs Gangplank Illaoi Ornn Jinx Caitlyn Ivern

nuclearwarpotato8/18/2018, 2:38:11 AM2 votes

Ryze Kalista Azir

Worst Kench NA8/18/2018, 3:56:22 AM2 votes

Riven Azir Kalista Ryze

NemeBro8/18/2018, 3:46:34 AM2 votes

Yasuo =)

rayzo8/18/2018, 4:19:14 PM2 votes

Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo Yasuo

Last Breàth8/18/2018, 7:20:19 PM1 votes

TwistedFate That's just my opinion.

Ignika D8/18/2018, 8:00:26 PM1 votes

the champion with lowest winrate on each pacth since is harder to win with him

FeuerfalkeFX8/18/2018, 8:07:21 PM1 votes

Azir/Kalista

Elkington VI8/19/2018, 3:10:58 AM1 votes

Any champ with a simple/telegraphed kit. Good luck playing them against anyone remotely decent, even worse if they have no mobility.

LetMeCarry19838/19/2018, 5:20:42 AM1 votes

Annie

I have no idea how people get fed on this champ and even less of an idea of how people actually feed this champ. She is slow as fuck and all her spells are short range. She has like every single weakness a champ could possibly have.

EDIT:

Alot of people keep saying Azir is the hardest. I find Azir capable of so much more than Annie. With Azir, I'm actually able to get stuff done. With Annie, all I do is walk around while everyone dashes and blinks away, kill my team mates and then turn on me. I literally cannot do anything useful with Annie. I respect anyone who can carry with her.

6prezi1/31/2020, 8:58:20 AM1 votes

The hardest champions: Aatrox Yasuo Gangplank I tend to disagree heavily on Riven is difficult, because of how overstat she is, statistically with one of the highest winrates and pickrates she dominates solo queue. I also dont think champions like Akali who are extremely hard to punish for poor positioning are hard. Positioning is one of the things in this game that makes it incredibly difficult to master. And realistically mages arent very difficult to play at all. Yasuo has one of the highest pickrates and lowest winrates throughout all ranks

Tasty Sweets8/18/2018, 2:40:54 AM1 votes

Azir Camille Yasuo Ekko

MrFawknSunshine8/18/2018, 2:41:47 AM1 votes

so 2 other people pick azir as well and im downvoted LUL this community

Illabethe8/18/2018, 2:44:00 AM1 votes

Elise Braum RekSai Akali Ryze

Not necessarily in that order.

There were about 5 honorable mentions, but they can have some moderate success even if hard to master because of parts of their kits:

Vayne Yasuo Viktor Nidalee Azir

Ranmaru8/18/2018, 3:40:24 AM1 votes

Draven

Hemulen Magi8/18/2018, 4:31:56 AM1 votes

Nidalee in my opinion.

MLDzXnRRR8/18/2018, 5:09:53 AM1 votes

Aatrox - clunky, disjointed, boring kit Mordekaiser - not hard, but getting in range feels impossible, so in practice making what is supposed to do = achievement Bard - the projectile speed of his R is too slow, so you will often miss or troll your team

Other champions like Zoe, Yasuo, Riven etc are not hard to play, but take time to learn.

Netorare8/18/2018, 9:47:37 AM1 votes

AurelionSol Azir Bard Gangplank Kalista Pyke Thresh Velkoz Xerath Akali Karthus THESE are the champs that require SKILL to play.

Hollowchazz8/18/2018, 10:39:16 AM1 votes

probably Azir is the hardest. Leblanc is pretty tough too.

Easiest champ is Ziggs, I mean you will never get zoned with ziggs since he can spam Q at a wave to farm if you are facing a fed fizz. Sure he has skill shots that take time to land but the CD of Q gets so low at max CDR it's ok if your aim sucks, you get lots of practice shots.

wildfox998/18/2018, 11:40:39 AM1 votes

Tryndamere

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deadlychuck8/18/2018, 4:07:51 PM1 votes

It depends what you mean. Hardest champion to play the champion or hardest champion to play the game with?

Hardest champion to play the champion is probably Riven because of her auto attack canceling and numerous other mechanics that have unnatural interactions. That said, she's heavily compensated with her AD scalings on everything and her mobility.

Hardest champion to play the game with is probably Malzahar because the player has literally no agency or kill pressure. He effectively has 3 skills his passive (which is now worse than a standard spell shield), Q/W/E and R. He's Q/W/E, can literally be bound to a mouse macro. Yet all of his kill potential is based on if the enemy uses their escapes to engage and if they don't do any damage to your glass voidlings.

D357R0Y3R8/18/2018, 4:17:57 PM1 votes

personally I can do fine on any champion except Gangplank