Talk:Azir/@comment-26034614-20150901201037/@comment-11218751-20150903042538

"Unfortunately, getting good with a champion doesn't mean you can climb to challenger with them. That doesn't work, other champions are just naturally better at a higher level, and Azir is one of them."

I do wish you can prove me wrong.

Regarding Azir's pre-nerfed E, I don't really really see how it is oppressive. His pre-nerfed E was the only regular ability (which is gated by long cooldown and limited by a lot of other factors, including soldiers' positions) that had some form of hard cc to stop brusiers and assassins (especailly AD assassins) from engaging and gapclosing. It was really hard to land his E so as to knock enemies up, and when he could do that it was very rewarding, (especially when he can further the E range by using his Q, and that is not really easy to execute, unless you can also perform Alistar's combo (W>Q to chain your cc) correctly every time you see fit). Now that he can't even stop brusiers from gapclosing him with his E, let alone punish them for wrongly timed engages. He can only use R to do so (which has relatively longer cooldown). He is like a piece of paper because Riot has stripped away his regular defensive crowd control ability. The only redeemable factor is his passive (like seriously his turrets are even weaker than regular turrets), and his ability to zone, plus his teamfight changing ultimate. He can still make plays, yes, but there is no reason to pick him over some other better zoning mages (unless you are looking for Azir's mobility) and assassins, unless you are playing him for fun.

Nerfed his E because he was seen with a lot of amazing plays in LCS (and LCK, to some extent) and players in general hate him (because of his core identity as a zoning mage). LCS is everything in Riot's eyes. Pathetic.