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.
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Azir against Renekton counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Renekton’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Renekton..
Azir often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Renekton. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP 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 champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when trying to fight Renekton, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter to Renekton.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Renekton, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Renektonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Renekton. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Renekton 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 good counter for Renekton. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Renekton.
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Renekton during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Renekton. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Azir versus Renekton build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Renekton than with most other common item sets. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 52.3% battling Renekton with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Renekton 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 that we analyzed for Azir vs Renekton matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
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