Azir

the Emperor of the Sands

TopPatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

59%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

145

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport
39%52%56
Flash + Ignite
36%62%52
Exhaust + Flash
12%—17

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
52%64%75
Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
45%54%65

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Stormsurge → Horizon Focus → Shadowflame
14%—21
Nashor's Tooth → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap
10%—15

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes
74%54%107

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Arise! → Conquering Sands → Shifting Sands

96%58%139

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q						Q		Q		Q	Q
W	W			W	W		W		W
E			E											E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.