Azir vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Azir
based on 2,573 Azir vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Azir vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Azir vs. Kai'Sa matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa..
Azir typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Azir or Kai'Sa?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Kai'Sa, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a great counter to Kai'Sa.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Azir into Kai'Saas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Kai'Sa matchups, Azir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Azir is a great counter to Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Kai'Sa.
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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 Kai'Sa during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Azir versus Kai'Sa build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Kai'Sa than with many other common builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when playing against Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Kai'Sa 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 runes players chose for Azir vs Kai'Sa counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
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