Volibear vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Volibear
based on 1,230 Volibear vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Volibear in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Volibear against Azir matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Volibear usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Azir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Volibear and Azir
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Who is Better, Volibear or Azir?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Volibear usually loses when playing against Azir, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Volibear makes a poor counter for Azir.
While Volibear does have a lower winrate than Azir, when facing one another, Volibear also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Volibear into Azir.
Moreover, Volibear has some 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Volibear is a terribly counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Volibear against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Volibear to counter Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Azir. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Volibear versus Azir build consist of Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Azir than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when countering Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Azir as Volibear, Volibear players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Volibear vs Azir counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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