Zed vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Zed
based on 2,242 Zed vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Azir Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Azir as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Azir
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Zed vs. Azir matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Zed often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Azir
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Who is Better, Zed or Azir?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Azir, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter for Azir.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Azir, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Azir. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zed versus Azir build consist of Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Azir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.8% when countering Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Azir as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Zed vs Azir face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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