Azir vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Azir
based on 1,699 Azir vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Ahri
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.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Azir vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Azir vs. Ahri matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Azir normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Ahri
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Who is Better, Azir or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Ahri, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter for Ahri.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Ahri, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Ahrias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Ahri matchups, Azir is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Azir is a decent counter for Ahri. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Ahri 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 displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ahri. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Azir versus Ahri build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Void Staff. When Azir used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Ahri than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Ahri with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Ahri as Azir, Azir players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Azir vs Ahri clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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