Azir vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Azir
based on 989 Azir vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Anivia
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 Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Azir vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several strategic Azir vs. Anivia matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Anivia..
Azir typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Anivia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Anivia
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Who is Better, Azir or Anivia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when taking on Anivia, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a bad counter for Anivia.
While Azir does have a lower win rate compared to Anivia, when facing one another, Azir also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Azir into Aniviaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Azir is a trash counter for Anivia. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir to counter Anivia 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Anivia. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Azir versus Anivia build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Anivia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 46.2% when playing against Anivia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Anivia as Azir, you 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Azir vs Anivia matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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