Azir vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Azir
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Azir vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Azir vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Azir vs. Kalista counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Azir usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Kalista
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Who is Better, Azir or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Kalista, when facing one another, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Kalista 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Azir is an above average counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Azir versus Kalista build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Kalista than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 52.5% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Kalista 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Azir vs Kalista LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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