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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Azir versus Lissandra counter stats that can help you realize the differences between this set of champs. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lissandra..
Azir usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when facing off against Lissandra, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a great counter for Lissandra.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Lissandraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Lissandra 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 late stage team fights.
Azir is a great counter to Lissandra. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Lissandra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of 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 Lissandra build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Lissandra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 53.3% battling Lissandra with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Lissandra 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 that we analyzed for Azir vs Lissandra matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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