Illaoi vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Illaoi
based on 1,046 Illaoi vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Azir
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several valuable Illaoi versus Azir counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Azir..
Illaoi usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Azir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Azir
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Azir?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when trying to fight Azir, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a good counter to Azir.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Azir, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Azir.
Moreover, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Azir matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Azir. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi in order to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Illaoi versus Azir build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Azir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Azir as Illaoi, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Illaoi vs Azir face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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