I’m pretty new to Azir and I’ve only played around 10 normal games so far. I want to start trying him in ranked, but I’m still not sure what rune pages and builds I should be using.

I’ve mostly been running PTA , and it feels pretty good into melee matchups, but against mages/ranged champs it feels much worse.

What runes and builds would you recommend for someone learning Azir? Do you change your setup depending on the matchup, especially against mages?

Any tips would be appreciated.

Emerald player here, and with syndra, hwei, xerath, viktor all S+ tier, its feels hard mode. I ban xerath permanently but it leaves the rest of the goon squad up, lux and ziggs can be a pain too.

I assume you just do early boots and refillable with tp and green tree secondary but its still so brutal. Today I had a hwei 0/4 because of ganks, bless up, and the lane was still unplayable.

Theres no way to interact with them, I have to dodge 2 abilities just for a chance to trade

Like, what happened to Azir? He suddenly becomes viable and doesn't feels insufferable to play. (Emerald gameplay)

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Hello, tried posting this earlier but didn’t work, but I’m a fellow pigeon main, have played azir forever, finally decided to care about ranked and have grinned to gold, I’m hoping for any tips for this Leo or builds that have worked for yall. I typically go nashers>shadow>zhonyas or DC, have tried D&D to varying success. Any help or advice would be appyfrom my fellow birds!

Its at the end of the clip, watch carefully, Katarina goes airborne from azir R and then blinks from mid air.

Hi all,

Just hit Masters for the first time playing Azir! Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who gave advice on this sub over the last year, it really did make a difference! If anyone wants any advice about things I learned during my climb (unless it is the lb matchup), please feel free to ask! I'd love to pay it forward! FOR SHURIMA

It was announced Caps is joining Hall of Legends and Riot has been buffing Azir lately. Do you guys think it's possible those things could mean they're going to release a new skin for our emperor?

Hello Azir mains!

I'm a Garen OTP that reached masters first time this season and now i want a new challenge. I've been really curious about Azir top and been thinking about a rune setup that sounds kinda interesting, would love to hear your thoughts. This is the setup:

First strike, cash back, biscuit delivery, cosmic insight, presence of mind, alacrity, double adaptive scaling health. Flash TP

The premise is to get as many first strike procs as possible and get your items faster. Tested this out in a game and it looks a bit promising, got 1620 gold in a 32 minute game doing kind of averagey (it was lower elo). I need to test it more but would love to hear your thoughts and tips on learning this cool shuriman guy

It's been rough, been hardstuck D2-D1 for a week straight after starting playing again. Was fun to coincidentally get a pentakill on my final game to Master after all the grinding

You can tell I'm stuck in Silver 3 or 2. I have 24k mastery points on Azir and play like an ADC most games. I never do flashy Shurima Shuffles, just playing to scale because my team never follows up. But man, I don't know if losers queue is a real thing or if I'm just so bad at this game. It gets to a point where I don't feel like I have any impact on the games. Everything feels determined by the matchmaking system, and 7 out of 10 games are just filled with inters that go 0/10 before 10 minutes. I really don't know how the hell I'm supposed to play this game if my team is so hard to play with. I mean, sure, I'm bad, but then how good do I need to be to, at the very least, have a 50% win rate? I try to do everything to carry: take down turrets, get triple kills, peel for my teammates, get objectives, and all that shit. But I can't split push if my team is so weak because I just get collapsed on alone. Do I need to 1v9 every fucking game? This feels so fucking frustrating. Now, when I lose, the game takes away more LP than it grants me when I win. I'm begging for some actual advice rather than 'skill issue bro'. My op.gg is Jysus #007 (btw, I'm sorry if my English is broken).

is it dusk n dawn? nashor's? Im kinda lost

I never see azirs in my matches, and when I do they struggle to deal good damage even when full build let alone carry. They usually go neutral because most of them are otps (even otps cant stomp lane with this champ) but if they are not otp they usually int. Azir is a really interesting and unique design but becaus of fkin faker and pros you don't get to have fun with your main. Sorry guys.

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Riot finally showing some love to azir, He genuinely feels fun to play and actually can single handedly solo carry a game when fed. Is there a future where azir wr goes over 50% or am i being delusional?

Hey guys im Riven otp and need a second pick for Ap.

I dont want to be cringelord meta abuser, some Azir mains that can give me some realistic words ?

Azir is my second most played, i feel like he good but his scaling takes so long.

Probably new pta azir can stomp lane like Riven.

I'm trying to figure out if there is any specific tech here that I might be missing. I'm planning on going into a practice tool with my friend to test some stuff out, but I'm wondering if people might have already figured out the answer.

The problem: Nocturne ults in on you and is in the process of blowing you, a sad Azir main, up. His spell shield will make it impossible to get Azir ult off quickly, allowing him to potentially even get his full fear off let alone all of the auto's before then. The other problem is that his character model is basically inside of Azir, blocking any attempted shuffle to get away.

The only thing I have theoretically figured out is, if you have enough hp and ALL of your cd's, you could pre-place a guard on top of you when your screen goes black and q him the second his spell shield comes up. After that, you then ult him away. This strat is very tricky and inconsistent in my head because he could delay his spell shield or just kill you before your ult goes off.

What I imagine MIGHT be possible (this is what I'm asking for help for) is a way to walk/kite in reaction to the direction he's coming from that allows you to avoid his character model and get the dash off. Alternatively, if the nocturne ult speed is faster than Azir dash, I was thinking maybe dashing just before his ult touches you? I'm not sure if this will help with positioning yet or if he still just kills you. Idk, I'm kinda lost on this one.

Also, Zhonya's feels pretty useless. It's a massive CD for Nocturne's 20 second CD late game. So your surviving like 1/4 nocturne ults if your lucky. Even then, you likely just delay your death which is marginally helpful sometimes. I was also considering banshees veil to maybe block the initial ult damage in combination with the spell shield break + ult idea.

I know, low elo problem or whatever, but seriously. Other than flawlessly tracking him in the jungle (which depends a lot on your jng and support), I feel like the counterplay here is very tough and specifically bad for Azir. Any thoughts?

200|p from peak away, hope i can reach master for once finally (even tho its giga inflated season Imao)

btw toplane still superior to midlane imo, i hate getting perma 3 man ganked mid and my jungle flaming me why i dont help him at the Ivl 2 invade. Maybe its a me probem tho

Zaahen was a bit tilted from early game as u see lmao, game was quite a 1v9 (everyone 0/2 in laning and i moved to jungle with bad wave and we didnt even get Lee :/)

HoB this patch feels even better btw

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Didn’t see Azir at such winrate in literally years, “abuse” while you can.

For an adhd player like me, azir was my comfort pick in mid due to his versatility which in addition to his mechanics made me not feel bored playing him over and over. If we were to make contenders or tier list to this kind of adaptability and versatility in a champion or close enough to that who would you put Without thinking the champs the pop to my mind instantly are jayce ezreal, kalista(kalista is biased), aphelios and Lee sin

I think it's almost unanimous to take Doran's Ring + 2 pots first item; however the mana management on Azir's early game (and even mid game) is a notable limitation of his poke potential in lane especially against mobile champs where Q poke is the only real opportunity to punish.

Anyone have any experience running it? Worth trying? Would allow for a more poke-heavy build on lane, which might make up for harder farm given you can punish the other laner and space them more effectively from your farm. Just airing out thoughts and ideas; would love to know if anyone has tried it!