Leona vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Leona
based on 2,225 Leona vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Azir
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Win Against Azir
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.
Leona vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Leona versus Azir matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Azir. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Azir. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Azir
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Who is Better, Leona or Azir?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Azir, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter to Azir.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Azir, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Azir.
Moreover, Leona also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Azir matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Leona is an above average counter for Azir. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average picks up a lot less CS as Azir. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Leona versus Azir build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Azir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 52.9% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Azir as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Leona vs Azir counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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