Azir as Tanky Support

Sir Tiddles·11/16/2014, 8:10:32 PM·3 votes·1,481 views

This might be completely troll-status, but I have been screwing around with Azir as a bruiser/fighter support on bot late and it has been actually working out pretty well. Building sightstone, frozen heart, sorc boots, aegis->locket, liandry or rylai's, hourglass. Basically with all of his CC I was thinking that since I stuggle taking him mid that I'd try other roles. He still puts out okay damage, but the real prize here is that he becomes pretty durable, and with his CC and escapes he kind of forces the enemy team to waste a lot of time pinning him down. And best of all, you can be the initiator and push somebody out of position with a tanky build.

I'm fairly sure it isn't the best way to play Azir, but it's really fun, and I feel like I am helping the team a lot by setting up plays with his dash + flash and ult.

6 Comments

PokladnicaZla11/16/2014, 8:37:49 PM2 votes

I was playing as an AP support(with Spellthieves edge),but gave up on that after so many bugs(of which some still arent fixed)..

I build gold item+sighstone+frozen+an AP item,similar to u.He seems to be a Vaynes worst nightmare. :3

Jungle Lux God11/17/2014, 5:25:16 AM2 votes

I'm not to keen on the idea of Azir as a tanky support.

I played against a support Azir who built more AP. He has a lot of poke in the early game, and since he was building more AP he was able to get some damage onto me and our ADC, playing Graves. However, the two of us were able to get quite a bit of kills off of Azir and their ADC, Lucian.

As a tanky support, Azir would lose a lot of his in-lane poke that defines him in the support role, but the CC he has would probably make up for it, especially in a tanky build.

The biggest problem that I see with a tanky support Azir is finding a starting item to roll with. Coin doesn't give any combat stats compared to Edge and Shield, Edge doesn't fit a tank support, and Shield doesn't work so well on a ranged champ.

SecretAgentHulk11/16/2014, 10:21:59 PM1 votes

Off-meta FTW!

Nausicäa 11/17/2014, 3:04:24 AM1 votes

Or you can pick a support thats actually good and try winning a game without getting carried.