A clash of titans: Airi vs Yan - The ultimate showdown between eSport legends in Arena of Valor

When it comes to late-game prowess, Yan holds the advantage over Airi if players can effectively utilize her second skill to dodge Airi's Flying Spear or her ultimate. A missed skill on Airi renders her akin to a mere super minion, lacking the mobility to evade attacks and the intrinsic damage or healing capabilities.

However, Airi's item build featuring Fenrir's Tooth gives her a significant power spike once she farms efficiently, often surpassing Yan by level 12. Today, let's delve into the So Kèo Liên Quân series to analyze this intense matchup that demands tactical finesse and skill from players to determine victory. 

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Agility Factor

Airi: Known as one of the top-notch agile Warriors in the Top lane. With her signature move, Sword Dance, Airi can swiftly maneuver, easily reaching her target. Landing her first skill on enemies grants Airi an extra use of Sword Dance. Moreover, hitting multiple enemy heroes accumulates more uses. When unleashing her ultimate, Airi can accumulate up to 3 Sword Dance charges, allowing skilled players to unleash 7-8, or even 10, consecutive dashes when executed perfectly. 

Yan: Yan's mobility is also highly regarded, with Dragon Fang being the key ability that enables him to swiftly engage and reach opponents. When properly timed with his passive, this Liên Quân hero can dash twice in quick succession. Furthermore, by correctly chaining Dragon Fang and Divine Flicker, Yan can dash an additional 2 times while inflicting crowd control effects on enemies. This capability makes it easy for him to approach targets and escape dangerous situations. 

Overall, in terms of agility, Airi undoubtedly outshines others. She's famously known as the most elusive hero in Liên Quân with her pseudonym Airi 1000km/s being quite fitting.Airi 10/10, Yan 8/10.  

Annoyance Factor

Airi: This heroine brings annoyance with her long-range harassment, constantly poking enemies from a distance then swiftly escaping. Especially, her first skill - Flying Spear not only deals significant physical damage but also knocks back enemies hit for 0.75 seconds. The more targets hit, the more Airi  gains Long Seals (up to 2 stacks), initiating her mesmerizing combo. Besides the effect of her first skill, Airi's third skill - Dragon Fang, also provides a knockback effect for 0.75 seconds, and upon landing, she receives a special boon preventing her from taking damage exceeding 10% of her maximum health. 

Yan: This Liên Quân hero possesses various crowd control effects, including slowing and knocking back with his first skill - Cloudsplitter. In normal state, this ability can slow the target hit, with the effect increasing with skill level. In enhanced state, Yan gains the ability to knock back targets. Moreover, at level 12 - when Yan reaches his peak strength, he can simply activate his ultimate to spam his first skill multiple times, creating immense annoyance for enemy heroes.  

Each Liên Quân hero has their own particular annoyances. However, Mytour evaluates Airi's bleeding capability as the most annoying, as she poses a significant threat to Yan whether early or late game. Therefore, players should refrain from rushing into direct confrontations and instead focus on inflicting bleeding from a distance with her first skill, utilizing her long-range advantage and Luyện Kim ability to gain health and gain a positional advantage over Yan.Airi 8/10, Yan 7/10. 

Healing Ability

Airi: Not only does Airi exhibit high agility, but she also boasts remarkable healing abilities. With her passive, normal attacks on enemy heroes generate standard damage, which is then converted into 100% lifesteal with her fourth attack or when using her second skill. This lifesteal rate is incredibly high and rarely seen among heroes, allowing Airi to quickly regenerate health with just a few basic attacks, going from low health to full health in an instant. 

Yan: This Liên Quân hero also boasts robust healing abilities, attributed to his passive ability, Celestial Mountains. Striking enemy heroes not only increases Yan's attack speed by 40% - 68% for 4 seconds (scaling with level) but also allows Yan to regenerate up to 6% of his maximum health (1% per 80 physical attack). 

Both Airi and Yan possess remarkable healing abilities after power updates. Airi can lifesteal 100% from her fourth attack or using her second skill. Meanwhile, Yan can heal 6% of his maximum health after each basic attack on an enemy hero and an additional 1% for every 80 physical attack. When it comes to healing stats, Airi surpasses Yan, however, when faced against Yan, building Soulreaver is indispensable for Airi. But in terms of late-game matchups and skill parity, Yan still holds an advantage.Airi 10/10, Yan 8.5/10. 

Resilience

Airi: Despite being a Warrior, Airi leans more towards an Assassin type, hence she's quite fragile. However, within her skill set, Airi possesses some resilience advantages, making her slightly tougher. Specifically, when using her third skill, Airi receives a boon, significantly increasing damage resistance, limiting damage taken to no more than 10% of her health. Additionally, after executing her sword slash, not only is she shielded but she can also double the damage dealt to enemies, making her both robust and capable of avoiding enemy's high-damage attacks. 

Yan: This Liên Quân hero is renowned for his late-game prowess, capable of enduring prolonged engagements. To achieve this, Yan must be sufficiently resilient to withstand the onslaught of enemy damage during combat. Specifically, his second skill allows Yan to swiftly maneuver and gain both crowd control immunity and a 65% damage reduction. Additionally, his ultimate ability, Divine Flicker, grants him another round of crowd control immunity and a 50% damage reduction, enabling Yan to withstand multiple waves of damage and avoid being quickly burst down by opponents. 

Clearly, Yan surpasses Airi in terms of resilience as his skillset inherently provides robustness and endurance, offering not only damage reduction but also crowd control immunity, allowing Yan to engage in prolonged combat. Airi 7/10, Yan 9/10. 

Damage Burst Potential

Airi: Our heroine Airi is quite versatile as her damage burst potential ranks among the highest in the Dark Slayer lane. With a full disruptive gear set and late-game scaling, just one combo from her can easily drain the life of enemy carries. Although she may not deliver critical damage, with substantial damage output from her skill set, Airi remains a formidable force in the late game, even against the sturdiest of Warriors. 

Yan: As previously mentioned, Yan is a damage-over-time type of hero, meaning he can't burst down enemies within 3 seconds with just one combo. However, it's undeniable that the damage he can inflict is immense. Just the enhanced attack from his first skill - Divine Sword Strike deals significant damage, further scaling with level. When combined with his third skill - Divine Flicker, Yan receives substantial armor penetration, applying immense pressure on the enemy lineup. With sufficient skill level from Divine Flicker, this Liên Quân hero gains multiple enhanced states, dealing massive damage. 

In the late game, Yan's sustained damage output is extraordinary. Moreover, items like Muramasa and Soulreaver can be acquired early by Yan. In such situations, if facing off solo against Airi, not only does Airi suffer reduced healing, but also diminished damage output. Regarding Airi, if Yan is seen with his blue buff, it's wise not to engage but rather focus on chipping away his health. Catching him with his ultimate would be excellent, as similar to Airi, Yan becomes significantly weaker without it. In terms of team fights, Yan outperforms Airi due to his superior resilience. Airi needs to time her engagement carefully because if enemies retain many skills, she's susceptible to getting eliminated quickly.Yan 9/10, Airi 8.5/10.