Kayle vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Kayle
based on 1,773 Kayle vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Azir
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some significant Kayle versus Azir counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Azir..
Kayle usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Azir
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Who is Better, Kayle or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when taking on Azir, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a good counter for Azir.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Aziras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Azir matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kayle is a decent counter to Azir. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayle in order to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kayle versus Azir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Azir than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 51.0% battling Azir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Azir as Kayle, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kayle vs Azir counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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