Kalista vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Kalista
based on 598 Kalista vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Azir Counter Build
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Core Kalista Items
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Guide to Countering Azir as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Azir
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Kalista in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Kalista versus Azir matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between the pair. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Kalista usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Azir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and Azir
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Who is Better, Kalista or Azir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when facing off against Azir, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a poor counter to Azir.
While Kalista does have a lower winrate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Kalista also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kalista into Aziras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kalista is a trash counter to Azir. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kalista against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Azir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Kalista versus Azir build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Azir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Azir as Kalista, Kalista players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kalista vs Azir counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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