Azir vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Azir
based on 1,062 Azir vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Shen
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 Shen
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
Azir vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Azir versus Shen matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between these two champs. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Shen..
Azir normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Shen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Shen
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Who is Better, Azir or Shen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Shen, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter for Shen.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Shen, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Shenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Shen matchups, Azir is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Azir is a decent counter to Shen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir to counter Shen 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Shen. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Azir versus Shen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Shen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Shen with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Shen 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 builds players picked for Azir vs Shen matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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