Yasuo vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Yasuo
based on 4,644 Yasuo vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Azir
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Yasuo against Azir counter stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Azir..
Yasuo usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yasuo and Azir
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Azir?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a poor counter for Azir.
While Yasuo does have a lower win rate compared to Azir, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yasuo into Aziras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yasuo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Yasuo is a bad counter for Azir. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Yasuo versus Azir build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Azir than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Azir with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Azir as Yasuo, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Yasuo vs Azir counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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