Azir vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Azir
based on 2,328 Azir vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Azir vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Azir against Malphite matchup stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malphite..
Azir often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Malphite
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Who is Better, Azir or Malphite?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Malphite, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes an ok counter to Malphite.
While Azir does have a lower win rate than Malphite, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Azir into Malphiteas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir to counter Malphite during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Malphite. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Azir versus Malphite build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Malphite than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 49.3% battling Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Malphite 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Azir vs Malphite counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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