Talk:Azir/@comment-26034614-20150901201037/@comment-11218751-20150903072126

"It seems like you just have a hatred of Riot as a company and want to think they're nerfing Azir without reason."

I don't hate Riot. I just disagree with some of their balancing decisions. Azir's E nerf happens to be one of them. And many of their decisions make me think they are only balancing the game around LCS (or Worlds, or that matter), because many of the decisions were centered around champions that are frequently seen in competitive play, and some of the decisions really make no sense (check out that Lee Sin R buff).

"[...] you stated that he can't stop bruisers from gapclosing on him without his ultimate, but he has 1200 range to work with for attacking,"

You seem to forget that despite he has that range to work with for his Sand Soldiers' attacks, he has nothing to stop a brusier that has instant gapclosers from mauling him to death except with his R. An Irelia, or a Xin zhao, etc... can annihilate him in very quick succession if Azir wastes his E for closing the distance or escaping against these bruiser's first attempts to kill him. If we are talking about Azir before his nerfs, he could easily close the gap plus stop engages with his E knockup, followed by a couple of soldier's attacks and Q slow, which could effectively counter assassins and brusiers. Now that brusiers deal even more damage and are tankier than adcs (with a lot more cc than adcs too) with the introduction of several brusier items, it's not hard to imagine how Azir can be trashed by these brusiers without even being able to retaliate.

If you disagree with me, fine, but don't undermine my opinions by saying I hate Riot "just because I hate Riot for no reasons". It's really unjustified.