Azir vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Azir
based on 807 Azir vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Naafiri
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.
Azir vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Azir vs. Naafiri counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Naafiri..
Azir often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Naafiri. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Azir or Naafiri?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Naafiri, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter to Naafiri.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Naafiri, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Naafirias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Naafiri. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Naafiri matchups, Azir is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter for Naafiri. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir to counter Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Naafiri. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Azir versus Naafiri build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Naafiri than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Naafiri 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Azir vs Naafiri counters, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Naafiri as Azir are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.