Akshan vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Akshan
based on 1,200 Akshan vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Azir
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Akshan against Azir counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Akshan usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Azir
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Who is Better, Akshan or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Azir, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a bad counter to Azir.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Azir.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a terribly counter for Azir. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akshan versus Azir build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs Azir than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Azir with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Azir as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akshan vs Azir LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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