Azir vs Rek'Sai
How to Beat Rek'Sai as Azir
based on 364 Azir vs Rek'Sai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Rek'Sai Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rek'Sai as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
Azir vs Rek'Sai Counter Stats
How to Counter Rek'Sai with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Azir versus Rek'Sai counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rek'Sai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rek'Sai..
Azir usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Rek'Sai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Rek'Sai
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Who is Better, Azir or Rek'Sai?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when playing against Rek'Sai, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter for Rek'Sai.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Rek'Sai, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Azir into Rek'Saias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Rek'Sai 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 allied champions during team fights.
Azir is an above average counter to Rek'Sai. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Rek'Sai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often picks up much more CS compared to Rek'Sai. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Azir versus Rek'Sai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Rek'Sai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 53.0% when playing against Rek'Sai with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Rek'Sai 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Azir vs Rek'Sai LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.0% winrate overall.
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