Azir vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Azir
based on 3,546 Azir vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Aatrox
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Azir vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some valuable Azir against Aatrox counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aatrox..
Azir normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Aatrox. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Azir or Aatrox?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Aatrox, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter for Aatrox.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Azir into Aatroxas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Aatrox matchups, Azir is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter for Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aatrox. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Azir versus Aatrox build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Aatrox than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Aatrox with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Aatrox as Azir, Azir players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Azir vs Aatrox matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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