Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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 here feature some valuable Tristana against Azir matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Tristana usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when playing against Azir, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes an ok counter for Azir.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Azir.
Furthermore, Tristana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Azir. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Azir.
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Azir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Tristana versus Azir build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Azir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 49.7% battling Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Azir as Tristana, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tristana vs Azir counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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