Vayne vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Vayne
based on 3,281 Vayne vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Azir
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Vayne against Azir matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between these two champions. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Vayne usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Azir
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Who is Better, Vayne or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when facing off against Azir, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes an ok counter for Azir.
While Vayne does have a higher winrate compared to Azir, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Aziras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vayne has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Azir matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter for Azir. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vayne 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vayne versus Azir build include Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Azir than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Azir as Vayne, Vayne players should take 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 builds players used for Vayne vs Azir matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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