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.
Miss Fortune's speed boost is removed if she is damaged by an enemy.
Miss Fortune is easy to kill if you can reach her; target her first in team fights.
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Azir against Miss Fortune matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Miss Fortune..
Azir typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Miss Fortune. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually loses when trying to fight Miss Fortune, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a bad counter to Miss Fortune.
While Azir does have a lower winrate than Miss Fortune, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Azir into Miss Fortuneas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Miss Fortune. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Miss Fortune matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Azir is a terribly counter to Miss Fortune. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Miss Fortune.
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Miss Fortune during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Miss Fortune. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Azir versus Miss Fortune build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Miss Fortune than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 46.4% battling Miss Fortune with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Miss Fortune as Azir, Azir players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Scorch, and Manaflow Band runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Azir vs Miss Fortune counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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