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.
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Azir against Zeri matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zeri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zeri..
Azir often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Zeri. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when trying to fight Zeri, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a poor counter to Zeri.
While Azir does have a lower winrate compared to Zeri, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Azir into Zerias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zeri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Zeri matchups, Zeri is the better champion with a much lower 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 terribly counter for Zeri. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Zeri.
To truly master Azir in order to counter Zeri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zeri. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Azir versus Zeri build include Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Zeri than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 46.7% battling Zeri with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Zeri as Azir, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Azir vs Zeri fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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