Be a bird!
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.
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.
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
The stats provided here clarify some influential Azir vs. Tristana counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tristana..
Azir usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually loses when taking on Tristana, with a 45.3% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a poor counter for Tristana.
While Azir does have a much lower win rate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Azir into Tristanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Azir is a terribly counter for Tristana. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Tristana.
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Tristana. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Azir versus Tristana build include Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Tristana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 45.3% battling Tristana with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Tristana as Azir, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Azir vs Tristana counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
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