Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
The stats shown on this page clarify several critical LeBlanc vs. Azir matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between these two champions. As an example, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Azir..
LeBlanc normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when playing against Azir, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Azir.
While LeBlanc does have a lower winrate than Azir, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking LeBlanc into Aziras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, LeBlanc has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
LeBlanc is a bad counter for Azir. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Azir.
To learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Azir. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your LeBlanc versus Azir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Azir than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Azir as LeBlanc, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for LeBlanc vs Azir counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.1% win rate overall.
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