Azir vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Azir
based on 3,090 Azir vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Azir vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Azir vs. Hwei counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between this set of champions. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hwei..
Azir usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Hwei. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Hwei
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Who is Better, Azir or Hwei?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when facing off against Hwei, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter to Hwei.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Hwei, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Hweias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Hwei matchups, Azir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Azir is an above average counter to Hwei. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Hwei during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Hwei. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Azir versus Hwei build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Hwei than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 52.9% when playing against Hwei with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Hwei as Azir, you 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 combinations players picked for Azir vs Hwei LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.9% win rate overall.
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