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.
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Azir vs. Lulu matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lulu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Azir typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Lulu. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when trying to fight Lulu, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a great counter for Lulu.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Lulu, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Luluas his relative depth means 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 Lulu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Lulu 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 allies during team fights.
Azir is a great counter to Lulu. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Lulu.
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Lulu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often racks up much more CS compared to Lulu. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Azir versus Lulu build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Lulu than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 53.7% when playing against Lulu with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Lulu as Azir, you should use 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Azir vs Lulu fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.7% winrate overall.
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