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Azir nerfs are insulting

Felixphaeton·2/13/2015, 5:49:45 PM·5 votes·794 views

Azir was released as a train-wreck. Every skill had several bugs, some of which lasted several patches, and a certain few are STILL unfixed. His first week ended with a miserable 34% win rate. He's had a total of 21 bug fixes since his release, and more bugs are still popping up weekly.

But in 5.2 he was FINALLY in a playable state. After the Q behavior changes, there were no glaringly clunky mechanics in his kit. He was fun to play, took practice to perform well, and the player is rewarded for it. He had definite high moments, matched by glaring weaknesses to assassins and CC. His win rate climbed to a slightly sub-par 47% across all levels of play, and he's had a smattering of LCS performances and fails alike.

And then 5.3 happens. With statistically sub-par performances, GC decides to gut the bird. HARD. Azir's win-rate made its best Olaf impression, and tanked to a pitiful 38%. After several patches where his abilities were literally broken, after LCS showed that while he can have good performances, he also has glaring weaknesses, and while he was statistically under-performing across all levels of play, Rito decides to take a giant dump on the Sand Emperor. What a joke.

6 Comments

warpenguin5552/13/2015, 5:56:23 PM4 votes

Azir is shit now. he was one of my favorites, but now his soldiers cant touch you unless you stand on top of them

UdoIkOSc4u2/13/2015, 5:56:05 PM3 votes

the nerfs were right he was an hypercarry with super early game maybe they should keep bugfix him

Raxicor2/13/2015, 6:42:08 PM3 votes

Yeah I played against one the other day. I felt really bad for him, the lane was a complete stomp on him. Its not even fun to play against. :s

Colgate Gator2/13/2015, 7:14:17 PM2 votes

Bugs correction =/= buffs nor game design.

I don't know how he stands at this very moment, but he was stupidly strong prior to this patch. If you deny that fact you're simply delusional, which is why they nerfed him.

Volt Cruelerz2/13/2015, 7:03:40 PM1 votes

The thing is, the skill ceiling barely got scratched. The skill floor got raised which is already stupid high. If they made him gain back soldier range as he leveled W and increased Q's cooldown at low levels, I feel like he'd better be the hyper carry he's supposed to be.

Yya2/15/2015, 12:37:05 AM1 votes

I think riots nerf on azir was the dumbest nerf in all history, I think it was so dumb I am almost ready to quit the game forever over this.