Talk:Azir/@comment-24496127-20160410152728/@comment-26572180-20160414150247

I'm a newbie and a bottom elo percentile noob but I think it might be because they don't understand his range and his mechanics. To make good outplay you kinda have to understand the cooldowns, mana costs and how the enemy's kit works as a general principle and leverage that and I think that Azir's really unique style of play means that understanding this can be difficult in the span of the laning phase. I don't see many Azir's at low elo and the fact that he's so hard and different makes him hard to learn but I think the fact that he's hard to learn and not many people bother gives him surprising carry potential at lower elos. Also if you can win the first enemy all in; people become wary and try to play it safe and this let's Azir poke with his soldiers and get free trades with his q, all while free farming to use his dorans ring and blue buff to maintain mana. People at low elo don't go back until they have enough gold for a full item and they never consider counterbuilding your ap with say an abyssal sceptre so this gives you a big health and push advantage.

This is just the theories and ramblings of a below bronze 5 scrub though so if anyone has a more sound reasoning go ahead I'd love to learn more about it.