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.
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some vital Azir versus Sivir matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sivir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sivir..
Azir normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sivir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when trying to fight Sivir, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a good counter to Sivir.
While Azir does have a higher winrate compared to Sivir, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Siviras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. This often 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 Sivir matchups, Azir is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter to Sivir. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Sivir.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Sivir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Sivir. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Azir versus Sivir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Sivir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Sivir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Sivir 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Azir vs Sivir counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Sivir as Azir are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.