Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
The Illaoi Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Azir helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is an ally to Azir, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Azir does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Azir on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Azir does a decent job of protecting Illaoi in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Illaoi that will always be her top teammate. However, Azir is a very typical teammate for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Illaoi and Azir that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means you should be cautious when arranging Azir comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Illaoi and Azir together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Azir ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to work well with Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Illaoi and Azir synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Azir than with most other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 50.4% helping carry Azir with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Azir with Illaoi are given for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.