Talk:Azir/@comment-10880231-20150717162229/@comment-10880231-20150718215039

Yes, I would indeed make him super save.

As for poking, that's more for a potential role as support, since you wouldn't be able to reliably zone a enemy mage with reasonable range simply because he could easily walk away from the soldier after getting hit by Q and 1-2 AA.

Compared to the dmg output of champs like Ziggs etc. that poke would be fairly weak. Tough, if considered OP the DMG could be taken off Q almost entirely.

And as I said, his soldiers would be changed to apply on hit effects, meaning you'd build wit's, nashors. In general, I'd say it's sorta stupid to have pretty much the only real mage for which those items could well have been designed not benefitting from all of their effects.

You'd have about 4 roles to potentially play with him:

APC Mid.

APC Bot (with support).

Support Bot (poke with Q+soldiers, then E+R for the kill).

Jungler... not sure how well it will work, tough.

Right now, he can do pretty much just mid, and I don't think he's very efficient at that.