Elise vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Elise
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Elise vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Azir
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Elise in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Elise vs. Azir counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Azir..
Elise normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Azir. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Azir
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Who is Better, Elise or Azir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Azir, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a poor counter to Azir.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Azir, when facing one another, Elise also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Elise into Aziras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Azir. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Elise against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Elise to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Azir. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Elise versus Azir build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Azir than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Azir as Elise, Elise players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Elise vs Azir face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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