Azir vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Azir
based on 2,012 Azir vs Vladimir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vladimir as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Vladimir
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 Vladimir
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Azir vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some important Azir vs. Vladimir counter stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vladimir..
Azir typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Vladimir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Vladimir
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Who is Better, Azir or Vladimir?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Vladimir, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a good counter to Vladimir.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Vladimir, when facing one another, Azir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Vladimiras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Vladimir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter for Vladimir. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Azir against Vladimir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir to counter Vladimir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Vladimir. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Azir versus Vladimir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Vladimir than with most other common builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 51.1% battling Vladimir with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Vladimir 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 sets we have analyed for Azir vs Vladimir matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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