Thresh vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Thresh
based on 2,537 Thresh vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Azir
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Thresh against Azir counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Azir. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Azir
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Who is Better, Thresh or Azir?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a bad counter for Azir.
While Thresh does have a much lower win rate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Thresh has a lot of utility and CC, 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Thresh is a bad counter for Azir. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh often gets a lot less CS relative to Azir. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Thresh versus Azir build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Azir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 45.4% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Azir as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Thresh vs Azir clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.
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