Azir vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Azir
based on 1,007 Azir vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Azir vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Azir vs. Jayce matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jayce..
Azir typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Jayce
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Who is Better, Azir or Jayce?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Jayce, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a good counter to Jayce.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Jayce, when facing one another, Azir also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Jayceas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jayce. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Jayce matchups, Azir is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter to Jayce. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir in order to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often racks up a similar amount of CS as Jayce. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Azir versus Jayce build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Jayce than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 51.6% when playing against Jayce with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Jayce as Azir, you should equip 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 builds players picked for Azir vs Jayce counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jayce as Azir are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.