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.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Azir vs. Bel'Veth matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bel'Veth’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bel'Veth..
Azir normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Bel'Veth. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Bel'Veth, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter for Bel'Veth.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Bel'Veth, when facing one another, Azir also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Bel'Vethas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bel'Veth. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Bel'Veth matchups, Azir is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter for Bel'Veth. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Bel'Veth.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Bel'Veth during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often picks up much more CS relative to Bel'Veth. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Azir versus Bel'Veth build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Bel'Veth than with many other common builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 51.4% battling Bel'Veth with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Bel'Veth as Azir, Azir players should take the Conqueror, 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 players used for Azir vs Bel'Veth counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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