Kassadin vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Kassadin
based on 916 Kassadin vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Azir
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several influential Kassadin versus Azir counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Azir..
Kassadin usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Azir. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Azir
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Azir?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually fairs equally well when facing off against Azir, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes an ok counter for Azir.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate than Azir, when facing one another, Kassadin also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kassadin into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Azir matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kassadin is a decent counter for Azir. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Azir during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Azir. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Kassadin versus Azir build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Azir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing against Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Azir as Kassadin, Kassadin players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Kassadin vs Azir face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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