BRING BACK THE PIGEON

ShizukaNee··1 votes·417 views

When Azir goes from 47% winrate to 41% within 2 patches, I think there might be something a little wrong here. I used to love playing Azir, but now with all of the nerfs, I just find it frustrating. He moves like a turtle and attacks hit like a toothpick. I understand the initial nerfs, but nerfing him from viable in lcs to completely ignored is disheartening. He wasnt even that strong in lower elo either if you notice the 47% winrate. I feel like the champion nerfs or buffs should be more intune with the more populous fanbase which is the unranked - gold players. I'm not saying that he currently isn't pick worthy at all, but there just so many mid champions that now outclass him in the late game.

I'm not saying that all of the nerfs were terrible. (Some nerfs I thought were nice to balance him out like removing the knock up with his e). But this is a bit too much don't you think? I would like to here everyone thoughts on this.

Here's something that will put things in a better perspective... http://imgur.com/E5Id8lr

Pro-play = 8/23 wins/loses (Tried to find Korean players, but not many play Azir anymore.)

In the meanwhile RIP Azir. The bird is not the word item 3070 Azir item 3070

6 Comments

ReshiKillim2 votes

The biggest nerf to Azir, was the removal of the multiple sandsoldiers doing damage multiple times on Azir's Q. That made up for a ridiculous amount of burst on a Zoning mage.

ShizukaNee1 votes

I agrees with this wholeheartedly. I think this was what upset me the most and I forgot to put this in the post. (woops lol). But this nerf potentially removed 1/3 of he's q's burst damage which is a gigantic nerf to the emperor. It's extremely hard to make a difference in team fights now because the so little damage on his q.

Bastard Chief2 votes

I miss the old Azir. I made my thread saying "revert back all nerfs". I mean, he's hard to deal with unless your Ziggs or someone, but don't destroy him. His E knock up is gone (I never use E to go in because often you'd get crushed if you do, and that knock up would have been useful). I don't have a problem with how slow he is. Just give him back the E, and set his damage back up.

Personally, I don't find any champion hard to 1v1 against, but Azir is sorta who I been playing lots and want to main. I got him on both my accounts.

ShizukaNee1 votes

Yeah, Back when Azir used to be fun and rewarding to play and master. I really wanted to main Azir but now it's a bit difficult. Azir is definitely one that requires skill to play. Yasuo is one that requires skill as well. When you compare a Yasuo main and an Azir main now a days, you see the Yasuo generally with higher damage output, KDA, gold and of course, winrate. There's just way more reward maining other mid champions now.

CppL1 votes

So they nerf this speed by 10 and baam RIP azir?!? for real? he"s still a lane bully and late game hyper carry.Just cause he has low win ratio doenst mean he"s weak ,it means he"s hard to play ,not every noob can play him right.I guarantee he"s gonna be picked in worlds.

ShizukaNee1 votes

I didn't day one nerf in speed in the patch. I think I specifically said **nerfs **and not nerf. I think if you notice the patch notes from maybe 5.8 to 5.16, Azir has been nerfed consecutively in every single patch in one way or another (not including bug fixes). And im not sure about the whole Worlds thing. Maybe he will be picked once but definitely not as often as before. A 10 nerf is speed is not what i'm trying to stress. and the low winrate is not what im trying to stress either. Im trying to stress that huge drop from just 1 patch. 6% is a bit drastic.

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