Azir vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Azir
based on 2,242 Azir vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Azir vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some influential Azir vs. Zed counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zed..
Azir usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Zed
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Who is Better, Azir or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Zed, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter to Zed.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Zed, when facing one another, Azir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Azir into Zedas 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 Zed. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Zed 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 teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter for Zed. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Azir against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Azir versus Zed build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 51.2% battling Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Zed 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 combinations players used for Azir vs Zed fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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