Talk:Azir/@comment-4290320-20140920101824/@comment-5663427-20140920151050

Well, it does, because when pros master a new champion, they either say that *insert a champion that was picked in lcs more than 20 times*  is more viable than this champion, or they abuse it because it's op until it's nerfed and forgotten, so it depends on how the universe reacts.

And his early game is bad because: even if he can become a lane bully, the problem is that since his normal autoattacks are so weak that he won't get much farm out of them, he needs to use sand soldiers to farm. And that means that the enemy already knows that they should either poke him away from the lane, or engage (obviously if Azir's Q is on cooldown). And even if Azir tries to trade, as long as the enemy isn't standing in soldier's range, Azir won't deal much damage, but even then, his base attack speed is really low, which means that soldiers won't attack much. Also, don't forget his horrible base stats (his only innate tankyness comes from his shield which is hard to utilize, and it's value is not enough to protect him from whole burst, and yet he has only 17 armor at lvl 1? lol). To sum up, Azir can survive early game only if enemy plays really passively/is a sitting duck.