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.
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Azir versus Darius matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the pair. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Darius..
Azir normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Darius. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when trying to fight Darius, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter for Darius.
While Azir does have a higher winrate compared to Darius, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Dariusas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Darius matchups, Azir is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter for Darius. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Darius.
To truly master Azir in order to counter Darius during both the laning 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 suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Darius. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Azir versus Darius build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Liandry's Torment. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Darius than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Darius with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Darius as Azir, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Azir vs Darius fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Darius as Azir are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.