Azir vs Veigar
How to Beat Veigar as Azir
based on 1,977 Azir vs Veigar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Veigar Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Veigar as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Veigar
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 Veigar
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
Azir vs Veigar Counter Stats
How to Counter Veigar with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Azir against Veigar counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Azir often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Veigar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Veigar
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Who is Better, Azir or Veigar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Veigar, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Azir makes an ok counter to Veigar.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Veigar, when facing one another, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Azir into Veigaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Veigar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Veigar matchups, Azir is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter for Veigar. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Veigar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir in order to counter Veigar 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Veigar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Azir versus Veigar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Veigar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing against Veigar with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Veigar 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 runes players picked for Azir vs Veigar clashes, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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