By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
the Emperor of the Sands
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (1,517 games).
Azir, the Emperor of the Sands, fights through Sand Soldiers that attack for him and walls enemies away with Emperor's Divide. Mid Azir dominates the Master+ sample and Top Azir is rarer; Press the Attack came ahead of Lethal Tempo, and Nashor's Tooth heads his commonest build before Shadowflame and Rabadon's Deathcap.
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Patch 26.18 · Mid · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 1,517 games · Preview sample
1,517
Games
High
Confidence
Win rate by lane
54.5%Win Rate
Flash
Teleport57.4%Win Rate
Flash
Ignite
This exact page: taken in 10.1% of games·45.1% win rate over 153 games.
Hitting an enemy champion 3 consecutive times deals bonus damage and amplifies your damage until you leave combat with champions.
Restore a small amount of mana or energy when damaging an enemy champion. Takedowns restore mana or energy.
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Attack Speed.
Deal more damage to high health enemy champions.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage. Duration: 1.5s Cooldown: 55s
Gain permanent max health when minions or monsters die near you.
Lethal Tempo25.5% taken · 48.1% win387 games
Hail of Blades8.6% taken · 53.8% win130 games
Conqueror5.6% taken · 51.8% win85 games
Precision + Sorcery55.0% taken · 48.0% win835 gamesPrecision + Resolve24.4% taken · 45.1% win370 games
Domination + Sorcery8.3% taken · 50.8% win126 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Azir's most common path.
QAzir sends all Sand Soldiers towards a location.
Cooldown 14/12/10/8/6s · 70/80/90/100/110 Mana
WAzir summons a Sand Soldier to attack nearby targets for him, replacing his basic attack against targets within the soldier's range.
Cooldown 1.5s · 40/35/30/25/20 Mana
EAzir shields himself briefly and dashes to one of his Sand Soldiers, damaging enemies.
Cooldown 22/20.5/19/17.5/16s · 60 Mana
RAzir summons a wall of soldiers which charge forward, knocking back and damaging enemies.
Cooldown 120/105/90s · 100 ManaMax W first, then Q, then E. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QConquering Sands | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WArise! | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| EShifting Sands | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| REmperor's Divide | R | R | R |
How Azir performs against enemy mid laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
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Dodge the primary — its rotation is one skillshot; sidestep it and the rest is chip
Close the gap early — it wins at range and at three items — neither before ten minutes
Punish the cooldown — Azir is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 9/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
PShurima's Legacy
Azir can summon the Disc of the Sun from the ruins of allied or enemy turrets.
Passive — never cast
QConquering Sands
Azir sends all Sand Soldiers towards a location. Sand Soldiers deal magic damage to enemies they pass through and apply a slow for 1 second.
Cost 70/80/90/100/110 ManaCooldown 14/12/10/8/6sRange 740
WArise!
Azir summons a Sand Soldier to attack nearby targets for him, replacing his basic attack against targets within the soldier's range. Their attacks deal magic damage to enemies in a line.
Cost 40/35/30/25/20 ManaCooldown 1.5sRange 525
EShifting Sands
Azir shields himself briefly and dashes to one of his Sand Soldiers, damaging enemies. If he hits an enemy champion, he instantly readies a new Sand Soldier for deployment and halts his dash.
Cost 60 ManaCooldown 22/20.5/19/17.5/16sRange 1100
REmperor's Divide
Azir summons a wall of soldiers which charge forward, knocking back and damaging enemies.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 120/105/90sRange 250
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Azir in 8 patches. The latest is patch 26.16, published 2026-08-11.
QConquering Sands
We are continuing to monitor Azir, especially as players continue to pick up Press The Attack as his optimal keystone. For now however, we are going to give him a moderate buff to his laning to help him out.
WArise!
REmperor's Divide
Azir is feeling more headless chicken than valiant falcon right now. But rather than straight numerical buffs, we're preening his feathers of impactful bugs and changing some rune interactions that should make him start squawking about Shurima more often.
QConquering Sands
WArise!
In this patch we're looking to make Azir a bit more powerful for players at home. These changes should be pretty appreciable for all Azir players, regardless of rank.
Base Stats
Azir does a lot of things very well when played at a high level, and we want to make sure we preserve that expression of mastery Azir players spend a lot of time developing. But with that in mind when he gets going he can feel very oppressive and unstoppable. In order to give his opponents some degree of counterplay we’re bringing his health in the late game down a notch so assassin type champions can have a chance to dethrone the Shuriman emperor.
WArise!
EShifting Sands
Azir's a bit too powerful in higher levels of play at the moment, but he's in pretty good shape for regular play. So we're looking to shift his power around and reduce those pro-specific strengths. To do this, we're digging into his early laning phase and giving him less passive guaranteed wave control and compensating him with better late-game scaling and more rewards for taking big risks.
Base Stats
WArise!
Azir has been at the top of his rule, especially in pro play. He's reliably able to get to a high point of power, so we'd like to reduce how effective he is when that happens by bringing down his Attack Speed growth and late-game W damage.
Base Stats
WArise!
Our recent set of changes for Azir has left him a bit weak, so we've carefully curated some buffs for everyone's favorite bird emperor. We're starting by giving him some additional base health to help out his early game while also increasing his W's AP Ratio to incentivize him to stack AP over health.
Base Stats
Azir’s no stranger to pro play, but right now the emperor is standing a bit too high above his competition. We want Azir to feel slightly weaker late game and struggle a bit more in movement based match ups, so we’re doing some small tap down of his strength in these areas.
Riot's data lists 8 looks for Azir with their own art, the base skin included and 20 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Azir | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 575 | =149th | 620 |
| Health per level | 108 | =53rd | 104 |
| Base armor | 25 | =121st | 30 |
| Armor per level | 5 | =18th | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 30 | =110th | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 1.3 | =93rd | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 56 | =113th | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.625 | =117th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 5% | 2nd | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 330 | =117th | 335 |
| Attack range | 525 | =46th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 575 | +108 | 2411 | 78th of 173 |
| Mana | 320 | +40 | 1000 | =94th of 145 |
| Armor | 25 | +5 | 110 | 66th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 30 | +1.3 | 52.1 | =97th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Azir, the Emperor of the Sands, is a Mage and Marksman champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 9/10 for difficulty, 6/10 for attack, 3/10 for defense and 8/10 for magic. Azir spends Mana and has 8 skins with their own art. Azir's attack speed per level of 5% is the 2nd-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20.
Azir was a mortal emperor of Shurima in a far distant age, a proud man who stood at the cusp of immortality. His hubris saw him betrayed and murdered at the moment of his greatest triumph, but now, millennia later, he has been reborn as an Ascended being of immense power. With his buried city risen from the sand, Azir seeks to restore Shurima to its former glory.
Published by League of Legends on YouTube, 15 September 2014.
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