Azir vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Azir
based on 1,151 Azir vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Azir vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Azir versus Alistar counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Azir often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Alistar
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Who is Better, Azir or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Alistar, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Alistar, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Azir into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Alistar matchups, Azir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Azir is an above average counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir in order to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically picks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Azir versus Alistar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Alistar as Azir, Azir players should equip 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 chose for Azir vs Alistar fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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