Ziggs vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Ziggs
based on 927 Ziggs vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Azir
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Ziggs versus Azir matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Azir..
Ziggs normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Azir. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ziggs and Azir
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ziggs usually fairs equally well when facing off against Azir, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Ziggs makes an ok counter for Azir.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate compared to Azir, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ziggs into Azir.
Moreover, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Azir matchups, Azir 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 late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a somewhat poor counter for Azir. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ziggs against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Azir. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Ziggs versus Azir build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Azir than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Azir as Ziggs, Ziggs players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ziggs vs Azir counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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