He has the safest laning phase with his ridiculous range, during which he farms up enough gold to get a Nashors and Rylais then its gg. Seriously, what point of the game are you supposed to counter him? He has one of the most powerful disengage spells in the game and he is given a dash that is a screen away. He out DPS ADCs, shreds tanks, is safe from assassins. Why is he able to exists in his current form?
Njallum2 votesAzir's Dash is very counterable, all you need to do is position yourself between him and his Soldier or just generally hug him. The thing with Azir is that he's weak to hard engages and blinks, while he can use his wall to throw you back, his strength lies in Sustained Damage, not Burst. He will kill anyone eventually, but if a clever Annie, LeBlanc or any other burst mage gets in his face they can annihilate him in a single burst at minimal risk to themselves.
Furthermore, while he is an extraordinary Lane Bully, he himself is actually pretty weak to getting bullied in return, especially with bullies who also happens to have a lot of upfront burst damage. Champions like Vel'Koz, Lux, Xerath and Zed all do well against Azir for that reason. He's also very difficult to play in general.
Kaiser Rienhard1 votesWeak to hard engage but has an ult that covers half the lane and cannot be dashed through, if you manage to walk around it while his soldiers auto you to death (slowing you to boot) he flips you off with his bird finger and soldier dashes away.
Njallum1 votesWell, of course he does, he is a Disruptor after all, a Control Mage. Controling the battlefield is more or less his thing, furthermore, if you use champions with dashes against Azir then you're setting yourself up for a rude awakening, as he tends to be strong versus those champions. Zed is a much better pick against him.
Randomonium2 votesIt is incredibly easy to bully Azir around his cooldowns. Once he uses his Q offensively you can absolutely wreck him. The problem is most people back off rather than move forward when he uses his Q offensively.
Kaiser Rienhard1 votesYou mean his Q that he can cast and poke you out from a screen away, sure let me walk up to him as he chunks me for half my health while he chills under his tower.
Randomonium1 votesIf it was as difficult as you make it out to be he wouldn't have a sub 50% win rate across all elos.
Beldair2 votesAzir can easily be dealt with if you know what you are doing...Having played Azir, I have seen his weak points and know when and how to exploit them.
FiddlesOnTheRoof1 votesHis win rate has him right in line with every other mid laner
Kaiser Rienhard2 votesSo was Lucian, doesn't stop Riot for nerfing him because he is getting played too much in competitive.