Azir vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Azir
based on 1,874 Azir vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Azir vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic Azir versus Nami matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champs. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nami. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Azir often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nami. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Nami
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Who is Better, Azir or Nami?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when playing against Nami, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Azir does have a lower win rate compared to Nami, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Namias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often accumulates much more CS compared to Nami. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Azir versus Nami build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Nami than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Nami 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 rune builds players chose for Azir vs Nami fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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