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R.I.P Azir

fwL7umeoQe·2/13/2015, 4:19:31 AM·6 votes·1,744 views

Azir had many strengths and weaknesses. One of his strengths being his range. Now that riot, has gotten rid of this he's pretty much useless. They gutted Azir completely. I mean, I can understand the Q damage nerf, but what the fuck is this soldier range nerf? Azir has became unplayable for me now. He relies MUCH more on his team, where as he already needed teammates to be affective. The soldier nerf is the only thing that really pisses me off about the nerf as a whole. He's squishy as hell and you needed his range to safely farm and live in team fights. I feel like the soldier positioning is off everytime I q. In team fights, I just end up basic attacking like a fucking idiot in the middle of everything. Besides, the only Azir's I've played against didn't ever carry, or get fed, or anything. They were just average scoring. As for myself, I honestly thought Azir was just... Decent. You really fucked this one up though riot...

10 Comments

Akumu2/13/2015, 4:32:53 AM7 votes

OPGG is reporting a 36% win rate for Azir based on todays games

Eyrgos2/13/2015, 4:42:16 AM4 votes

The range nerf was overboard.

NorthenWolf2/13/2015, 4:49:48 AM4 votes

honestly idk why they nerfed him so much, the guy is still quite weak.

Volt Cruelerz2/13/2015, 5:13:48 AM4 votes

Azir main here. To be perfectly honest, I don't think the range nerf did at all what they wanted. They want a hyper carry that's not a lane bully. Guess what? I'm now experiencing less hyper carry and not much less lane bully.

I get wanting to make him less of a lane bully. I get wanting to reduce his poke ability at low levels. I get wanting to make him not a hard counter to turrets. But he should darn well be able to hyper carry if he gets there. I'd much prefer an increase to Q's cooldown at low levels and make the soldiers increase their range back up to 400 as you level up W. I feel like that'd make him more what people truly want.

Kilane2/13/2015, 6:59:21 PM2 votes

Trust me, Ive been warning against the range nerf and speak out its effect, but too many bronzies out there just don't want to deal with him. This is balance for them

Yya2/15/2015, 12:31:57 AM2 votes

The nerf on Azir's w is the dumbest thing riot has ever done.

Breakkah2/14/2015, 5:47:13 PM1 votes

no yea i think its totally legitimate to nerf a high skill cap champ with an under average win rate (sarcasm intended). riot balance team needs to figure out how to buff super op champs like katarina who get out of hand every single game. (no sarcasm they really do want to find ways to buff her still) honestly i'm really not sure what goes through the heads of the balance team. i'm really not raging or anything i just feel like these balance changes are all made in a 15 minute time frame without hardly any thought put into them. champs are generally never slightly nerfed or just changed anymore it seems like everyone nowadays is just gutted if they're any kind of problem. even if its a champion like azir who was statistically not very good, they choose to gut him instead of making much needed changes to a 50%+ win rate champion just kinda boggles my mind.

Dragongore7/22/2015, 6:54:16 PM1 votes

Petition to support our Emperor https://www.change.org/p/riot-rito-riot-games-give-azir-knock-up-back-to-her-e?recruiter=348296256&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

SouledOne2/14/2015, 3:37:04 PM1 votes

I main Azir as well. Although he's still strong against mages with high dps and low mobility.... >.> (which is basically Cassio and a list of unpopular champs) he's 💩 against anyone with decent range, or mobility, and dmg.

Low mobility champs will have no issue escaping his soldiers. Normally, a well hit q gave me 2 autos, and on rare occasion 3. Now a good Q only gives me 1 auto... and that's with low mobility champs like Ori. If they didn't nerf Q dmg, then this wouldn't be much of a problem. But nerving BOTH Q dmg and W range guts not his early and mid game dmg but also his overall dmg output in teamfights.

They would have done better to simply nerf both the dmg and Q cd in the early game, considering he's CD hungry. I don't know why Riot overnerfed him. I wouldn't mind a small nerf on the soldier range, but they went a little too far with this one.

Just realized, we're going through this because of LCS.