Azir rework was a straight up failure.
Extremly dissapointed how Azir was threated with balance and rework teams.
-
Released with 10 gamebreaking bugs.
-
Took em around 6 patches to fix most of relevant bugs.
-
Labeled him as toxic champion for a game despite Rylai Being the opressor (That 5.13-5.22/6.24 broken rylai 40% slow on aoe abilities it. )
-
Decided he needs rework over normal changes. (I ll suggest rework revert and how to change him suggestions down below.)
-
Stated that you have 2 rework directions for him No shuffle/No range but he would gain damage. Did we ask for damage?
-
What If I told you ANY azir main would be ok with azir not 3 hitting champions.
-
They Fked up his shurima shuffle potentional in half, they gutted his range even worse they made it clunky due to low range diff between Q-W is.
-
WHAT THE FK IS THAT STUPID DIVE FRONTLINE TO GAIN EXTRA SOLDIER GIMMICK. holy shit it actually tilts me. If anyone tells me that this is what makes him viable i ll find him and punch him. This gimmick IS Completly irelevant, General Arise dmg buffs (Scalling per level) is what made him viable.
-
His kit lost its symphony. You have your own army but they attack from like 50 range out of azir Reach, his ranges feel clunky X months ago **Riot reduced his W range to increase his Q range I though that was fantastic change ** he had to risk in order to put W in a correct form to farm a wave and the diff between W-Q range made it feel smoother. Riot took 10 steps back with this latest range changes. His ultimate is also to wide today
-
Do you want him to play like syndra? Strategic champion uses W mindlessly before teamfights because he needs to make sure he hits his 3 soldier spike before teamfight is decided?** thats the direction he is facing**. Lets face it none (high elo) ll suicide bomb himself with azir just to gain an extra soldier
-
By giving HIM DAMAGE HE became OP generalist YET AGAIN. He was Unique champion who had many strenghts except for damage (Until 4 items)
-
His shurima shuffle is no longer unique. Oh come on does it really hurt melees/divers that much? There were other ways to reduce his melee hate (ll mention)
- Oh and btw many melee champions were changed with azir R and mostly janna in mind
I ll mention some melee champs
His q can actually fk up wall nowdays. Correct me if i am wrong might have been reverted on PBE
Yes she gets fked up but she could have gone sideways with her 4 dashes...
He would still Stun azir
She would still damage what she Bladesurges. Seen her get triple kill while bumping my wall o.o
can enter sideways, stay on a wall a bit longer / her r cant be stopped, really good vs azir
Alright he gets fked up by azir in general. Silence is not that effective against azir
He is few range off to pull azir single bait miss step would cause this (Go backwards with darius suddendly go forward)
His E Rightclick jumps over wall, his r goes trough altough that wont happen often, In general his e is magnet to azir
Azir used to hard counter old warwick you could R preemptivly and counter his point and click R. Nowdays its the opposite both his Q, and R go trough this wall
Her r goes through his wall
he gets fked up but his pillar could massivly fk up azir mid dash to
He engages from stealth so it doesnt really matter.. by the time you can R you are in cyclone. he can also easly bait shuffle cdr
He can jump over (Flash can to unless you flash literaly into it)
Emperors divide LUL
Emperors divide LUL
He can W through wall
He can E through wall
Both champions can ruin each other tbh.. wither completly fks up azir kit emperor divide fks up nasus. similar with nunu
Emperors divide LUL
Emperors divide LUL
My point is you couldnt just pick azir as disengage / kite option against any champions
So finaly my suggestions reverting the rework is obvious first step before any of this It should be noted all of this suggestions would be healthy for azir / game health.
I just want to show to the riot how many potentional good changes they had. They could apply all/multiple/some of this changes some are nerfs some buffs Goal of this changes would be more counterplay/azir being better
A) reduce his ultimate cooldown 140 seconds is to much its not a global ultimate. I though if it were reduced to 115 seconds azir would be viable healthy pick.
B) Azir could actually slow you by 50% if 2 soldiers hit, This was unhealthy since most of a time this would happen to melee champions. Feature removed lets face it how many of you knew it was there anyway # LESS melee hate.
C) Lots of people dont know his autoattacks draw minion AGGRO. Azir long range poke is not comparable to poke of ziggs Orianna taliyah because it makes Minions go crazy on your ass
Now here is a problem compared to season 2 (dk when was minion dmg changed actually) minions dont punish champions who outrange by as much
This is a global change riot should do. Minions should punish Poke harder. Who knows maybe they ll do something like this specially since they have data after that all melee quest. just try playing a lane against something like jayce, You literaly have to tower hug from level 1? wtf? We have seen it in lcs I experienced it bunch of times. Minions should be better anti bullies
D) Azir Q speed reduced by 200. It was a bit to zappy. More counterplay!
E) Crazy one if this one is done implement no other buffs definetly choose some nerfs.** Azir soldiers now apply on hit effects** Why? Azir easly has/had one of the shittiest item power spikes in game
His best item powerspike was stinger and then stinger built in a non ideal item (Nashoors because he couldnt abuse it fully) Morellonomicon into berserkers was his best build STILL IS. I am tired of miscomseption that nashoor was his core
On hit soldier AAS would be relevant because?
Nashoor tooth + red buff
No this **doesnt **mean he would build wits end. It would maybe become niche for him
Fervor would have some potentional mostlikely still thunderlord Thormail would randomly be good against him, azir + full ad comp = rush thorn He wouldnt be able to apply Rylai/lyandri Idk how it would work with Deathfire touch but DFT is getting removed so lets not think about it.. He could have an actual item powerspike - trust me this was holding him back..
F) Nerf which I would hate but its an option. Why is Azir autoattack so smooth for farming? Azir has the best Autoattack for farming good azirs werent even farming with soldiers at a start. Omg I hate myself for mentioniong nerfing that possibly but I have to be fair
Some additional notes Only thing azir players didnt care about got buffed everything rest gutted. (Shield + damage buffed all rest gutted)
If anyone doesnt think Azir is to strong atm just check the global stats. He is back to being a generalist champion which was the opposite of riot goal
**Sad part is I can finally ABUSE HIM BUT I DONT LIKE HIM ANYMORE ): **
