Poppy vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Poppy
based on 1,134 Poppy vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Azir
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Poppy in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Poppy versus Azir counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Poppy typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Azir. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Poppy and Azir
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Who is Better, Poppy or Azir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Poppy usually wins when playing against Azir, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes a good counter for Azir.
While Poppy does have a higher win rate compared to Azir, when facing one another, Poppy also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Poppy into Azir.
Furthermore, Poppy also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Azir matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Poppy is a decent counter to Azir. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Poppy against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy on average racks up less CS compared to Azir. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Poppy versus Azir build consist of Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Azir than with most other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 51.7% battling Azir with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Azir as Poppy, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Poppy vs Azir clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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