Honestly, Azir works well with a lot of builds, and you just need to be flexible with what you build. There are some teams/mids you go against where there's is simply no need to get the hp from ROA, making Morello's a more attractive choice. On the other hand, going against someone like Ziggs or Xerath may make catalyst>ROA a more attractive choice.

Also, Azir has a REALLY strong early game. That is definitely not a problem for him.

If I go Rod of Ages, I tend to build a Twin Shadows too (pretty underrated item tbh). I've tried out Nashor's tooth, and while nice, it's really not necessary for Azir. I've found that it simply does not add as much damage to him as if he simply build more AP/Mpen. Like Phantom said though, stopping at the Stinger is really nice too.

General reminder though that "optimal" build in the pro scene and solo q are quite different.

 

I get one CD item (to cap). Morellos or NT. I'm aggressive, so I need the mana and health from RoA. That makes the regen on Morello not as great/ necessary.

So it's 50%AS vs 20AP for me. I chose the AS.

Sorc boots, roa, nt, rab, zh, vs final build.

 

Cho Gath is the best jungler. I'm so happy that I can go back to playing my old season 2 favourite again, and being super strong on it.

 

I think you misspelled Sion somehow Peteks don't know how that could've happened.

 

Sion jungle?

You must be pretty godly to be able to manoeuvre his ult through the jungle...

 

Well, they did make it turn on a dime now.

Jokes aside, though, it actually is much more maneuverable now than when the new Sion released.

 

Something something fuck new Ahri (though she's got relatively huge nerfs in the pipeline)

 

Your ultimate is for bot lane ganks or for mid-game initiation in the tight quarters of the jungle where your opponents can't dodge.

 

Real Talk: Thoughts on Darius. I'm not too worried about being kited, but how strong is he otherwise? I haven't seen him a lot (Which doesn't bother me, I do play Morde after all) but I feel like Darius is worth learning -since I have most other champions I feel are pretty well balanced- because I can take him top into some of my bad matchups as Morde (Riven, Wu Kong and Fiora specifically) and I feel like WK is really strong right now, but not well balanced.

 

Lane bully that falls off super hard after early midgame if he doesn't snowball very hard. Struggles heavily against ranged and anyone with strong sustain. He's very good against other bruisers like Jax and Irelia who you want to shut down early. But honestly, renekton does a very similar job while being a less risky pick.

You won't lost the game by picking him but he's a midtier pick at best.

 

To be honest I was looking at him more as a very threatening tank with extensive peel that can bully early. Would you say that's a bad assessment, or just a different one than most people play (more of a bruiser-bully trying to get to the enemy back line). Also I secretely love that he can fuck poppy up all game long.

 

The issue is that he has no natural tank stats so he needs tank items but his damage scales really badly without damage items. So he lacks threat if he's very tanky. Other champions peel better than him in teamfights so I wouldn't pick him for that. I think ideally you'd want to play him to win your lane and then try to snowball with early teamfights when you can still ruin the enemy back line with resets.

You probably can play him that way but he doesn't fulfill that role especially well and other champions do it much better.

 

Alright you convinced me, I bought Zyra instead.

 

Darius is an absolutely stellar counterpick to many champions however. While I prefer Renekton when I need a lane bully, Darius offers less variation but counters a lot of champions extremely hard. An early kill with Darius will rapidly snowball into a sufferfest for the other laner, especially if you get an early triforce, for which the base speed increase makes him incredibly obnoxious. This leaves you very squishy but because Darius is a bruiser people are unlikely to focus you in fights, instead going after your carries until they realize how much damage you do.

 

RIOT WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO MY WALLET RIOT

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/02/dj-sona.html#more

riot pls stahp T_T

 

That's fucking genius. I don't even play her and I'll buy it...

 

I think this reddit comment sums up tonight's H2K vs SK game:

 

In retrospect, I kinda wished I liked the concussive song more.

Or even better, if you could use your own music

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Watching the H2KSK game now. Why are people still building AS on Zed? I figured his AS changes would have forced people to focus damage items and play him like an AD mage/assasin?