5.14 Azir Nerfs For the Love of Shurima

I've had it with bad Azir nerfs. Yes, Azir needed a nerf, sure. But why would you nerf him like this?? Nerfing the CDR passive effective cuts his overall scaling in half (imo), which increases his vulnerability far too much. Now you have ridiculously long cooldowns, no damage, and no protection until level 13 or so (and that depends on your equipment). Azir is stupid squishy, even with a fully stacked ROA or a Rylai's. And with the nerf to his E you can barely use the ability on anyone at all. I can't seem to hit anyone with E and do any damage, nor can I ever get my shield to proc when I slide clearly into someone. So now I have a useless ability that doesn't help me do anything other than reposition myself usually into danger. Without the knockup Azir has absolutely zero kill pressure. This champion statistically has very low in-lane kill pressure already, so why would you nerf him in such a way that reduces his kill pressure to literally nothing at all? You have no reliable CC to get your only other relevant CC off - your ult - which is now basically a dead weight ability that you can only use defensively. Engaging with the ult is now incredibly risky not just because you don't get the extra CC but because the chances of it actually working at all (as in not glitching, or actually hitting the opponents) is very low now.

So all this means that Azir can do absolutely nothing against any assassin whatsoever. While this opens up more counter picks, there are no ways for you to punish dives. Anyone that can dive you just gets a free kill. You have no response without your ult. And even with your ult your damage has been nerfed so many times since release that you still can't out trade anyone. Now you have a Q that does no dmg and has a ridiculously high cooldown and mana cost now, a W that in theory should now help you scale but in fact ultimately slows the rate of your scaling tremendously, and an E that neither does damage to anything nor gives you a shield. So what kind of midlaner is this, where you can't kill anything and you just get shrekt by anyone who can get on top of you? The AS passive with W, which was supposed to open up build paths, effectively does nothing useful at all. Building Morello on him is pointless. You're so squishy and vulnerable now that you can't easily build a glass cannon first item. I've been building ROA and having some success but overall the scaling is garbage and it does nothing for him mid game when EVERYONE ELSE AROUND HIM IS GETTING MUCH STRONGER. Azir now absolutely needs three items minimum to have any pressure at all, which is absurd considering how easily he falls off now.

Also, the wall is glitching like crazy again. I just saw an enemy Katarina literally walk through it and out of my soldier range and proceed to dumpster me. I seriously want my bloody money back, Riot, this is bogus. What is he supposed to do now? Pray his team picks a line of tanks so he can just sit there and poke? You can't play him at all now without really solid frontline in your comp, which is a luxury one isn't always afforded.

Again, because I can already sense all the negative comments this will undoubtedly receive because Azir is quite hated, I'm not saying he didn't need a nerf. I'm just wondering how in the hell this constitutes a FAIR and BALANCED nerf for this champion? It seems everyone wins except Azir players, who just get stomped by this nerf. And after 5.3 I can't help but find this incredibly frustrating, especially after he finally managed to inch his way back up to a comfortable win rate. He's absolutely terribly un-fun to play now too BECAUSE YOU CAN'T KILL ANYTHING. All you do is farm and pray you can poke someone to death. Please, Rito, do something. Buff Q, fix E so that it actually does something, make sure wall FINALLY doesn't allow anyone to pass through it, and for the love of God give him SOME scaling into mid game. He can't be useless until level 16, come on. it's BS, and the only reason this nerf even happened is because of LCS. What about the rest of us who aren't Faker? I don't even think Faker will play Azir with these nerfs, there's no point.