Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Lissandra Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Azir helps Lissandra perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Azir, she gets a pretty big loss in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Azir does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played with Azir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Azir on the same team, she typically takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Azir does a poor job of covering Lissandra during team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Lissandra that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Azir is a terrible teammate for Lissandra. By locking into the same team as Lissandra, he decreases their win rate by -11.0% to 38.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Lissandra and Azir that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means you should be careful when arranging Azir comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Lissandra and Azir together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Azir ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Lissandra to synergize with Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Lissandra and Azir synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Azir than with most other common builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 38.5% when playing alongside Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Lissandra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Lissandra and Azir pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 38.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Azir with Lissandra are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.