Azir vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Azir
based on 2,423 Azir vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Azir vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Azir versus Blitzcrank matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Blitzcrank. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Azir often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Blitzcrank. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Azir or Blitzcrank?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when facing off against Blitzcrank, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a bad counter for Blitzcrank.
While Azir does have a lower win rate than Blitzcrank, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Azir into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Azir is a bad counter to Blitzcrank. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often racks up much more CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Azir versus Blitzcrank build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Void Staff. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Blitzcrank than with many other common builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when playing against Blitzcrank with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Blitzcrank as Azir, you should equip the Conqueror, 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 builds players used for Azir vs Blitzcrank counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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