Blitzcrank vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Blitzcrank
based on 984 Blitzcrank vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Blitzcrank vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank against Azir
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Blitzcrank vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Blitzcrank in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Blitzcrank versus Azir matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Azir. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Blitzcrank often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Blitzcrank and Azir
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Who is Better, Blitzcrank or Azir?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Blitzcrank usually wins when trying to fight Azir, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Blitzcrank makes a great counter to Azir.
While Blitzcrank does have a much higher winrate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Blitzcrank also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Blitzcrank into Azir.
Additionally, Blitzcrank also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Azir matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Blitzcrank is a great counter for Azir. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Blitzcrank against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank usually racks up a lot less CS as Azir. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Blitzcrank versus Azir build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Zeke's Convergence, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Blitzcrank included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Azir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average win rate of 54.6% when playing against Azir with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Azir as Blitzcrank, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Blitzcrank vs Azir fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.6% win rate overall.
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