Azir vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Azir
based on 1,046 Azir vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Illaoi
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.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Azir vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Azir versus Illaoi counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
Azir normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Azir or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when taking on Illaoi, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a poor counter for Illaoi.
While Azir does have a lower winrate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir to counter Illaoi during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Azir versus Illaoi build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Illaoi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 48.7% when countering Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Illaoi as Azir, Azir players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Azir vs Illaoi face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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