Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Watch out for Corki's Missile Barrage. They deal splash damage, so you can get hit even when hiding behind minions.
Corki is vulnerable after he uses his Valkyrie or Special Delivery, so try switching focus to him if he uses them to enter a fight.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Azir vs. Corki counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Corki’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Corki..
Azir often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Corki. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Corki, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a good counter to Corki.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Corki, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Corkias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Corki. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Corki matchups, Azir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Azir is an above average counter for Corki. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Azir against Corki.
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Corki during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Corki. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Azir versus Corki build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Corki than with many other typical builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Corki with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Corki as Azir, Azir players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Azir vs Corki clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Corki as Azir are presented for every ranked division. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.