Azir vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Azir
based on 2,423 Azir vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Azir vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Azir vs. Warwick matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Warwick..
Azir typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Warwick. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Warwick
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Who is Better, Azir or Warwick?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when playing against Warwick, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Azir makes an ok counter to Warwick.
While Azir does have a lower winrate compared to Warwick, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Azir into Warwickas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Warwick matchups, Warwick 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 somewhat poor counter to Warwick. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir in order to counter Warwick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually gets much more CS relative to Warwick. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Azir versus Warwick build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Void Staff, and Shadowflame. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Warwick than with many other common item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Warwick with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Warwick 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 sets players used for Azir vs Warwick battles, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Warwick as Azir are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.