Azir vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Azir
based on 2,225 Azir vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Azir vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here feature some influential Azir versus Leona counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Azir typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Leona
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Who is Better, Azir or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Azir does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Azir into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Azir is a terribly counter to Leona. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often racks up much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Azir versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Leona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 47.1% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Leona as Azir, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Azir vs Leona battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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