What if Azir became a AD champ?

because of the basic attacks of his soldiers?

I don't think that would really fit his theme. And it would be hard to imagine how lifesteal would work on him. Or Death's Dance. It would be a bit of a mess to be honest. However, I could imagine a similar champion that was AD rather than AP, but there would need to be some massive ground-level changes to the design to even permit it in my opinion.

Yeah, what then? His strongest move speaking from a teamfighting perspective places him directly in the middle of the enemy team, throwing 2-3 of them towards his own team with his ultimate. He can survive this as AP because AP often hass some part defense, either through a Rod of Ages or Zhonya's and so one. He would lose a lot of his cooldown reduction early, making his early game weaker. Most AD champs don't go cooldown reduction at all because it isn't well itemized for ADCs, which Azir most definately would fit in, should he be changed to AD. Lifesteal would scale either too bad or too good on him, thanks to every attack of his being AOE.

I don't see a good thing about him being changed to an AD champion. His playstyle works as an AP carry and his theme of getting soldiers to do things for him doesn't make sense if he had a Sharper sword. I don't see a reason he should be changed to AD, so instead of asking a simple question, maybe add some details to the question as to actually persuade us instead of just asking us a simple line with seemingly no thought behind it other than "this could be fun".

Nty

-biased Azir main zzz