Lux vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Lux
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Lux vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Azir
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Lux in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential Lux against Azir matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Azir. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Lux normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Azir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Azir
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Who is Better, Lux or Azir?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Azir, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Lux makes an ok counter to Azir.
While Lux does have a higher win rate than Azir, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Lux into Azir.
Furthermore, Lux also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Azir matchups, Lux is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Azir. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lux against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually accumulates less CS as Azir. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly 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 numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Lux versus Azir build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Azir than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Azir with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Azir as Lux, Lux players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Lux vs Azir battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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