Azir Balancing Request

I enjoy the balance of having to deal with champion combinations I've never seen before, and understand that each champion is balance in their own way, however I am posting this in the belief that Azir should have some looking into. Azir is exceptional at being able to poke, able to sustain poke, applies slows, has his own support in the form of a tower, has a very strong peel, with pretty much the sole weakness of being extremely squishy and being focused very hard.

The sole and only thing that I would appreciate being looked into is his auto attack. Countless upon countless times have I been q'd by Azir, and for extra measure been hit with an auto attack while it the Azir appears to be out of auto attack range. Maybe I'm just seeing things? Maybe Azir's auto attack is registered while his untargetable sand soldiers dash forward to slow, and do extra damage in the end?

If this is the case, then Azir has a poke wider AOE than 's E, without having to follow up to deal extra damage ('s passive).