Quote (yostraydog @ Sep 19 2017 03:52pm)
What nerfs actually happened to azir that make him bad? I suck on him but I can clearly see why someone like faker could get on the current azir and utilize all the craziness he has the ability to do. What did he have before that made him so OP that he doesn't have now that makes him close to a 0% pick?
It was the removal of his e shield, knockup, and passive change making cdr convert to attack speed. This led to a weak early game because no knockup to initiate early, now all of his trades are through his autos. They nerfed q damage a bit but that wasn't a big deal. Currently he's like playing an adc in the mid lane but with even less dps... He's garbage until late game and loses most trades until nashors.
And the reason they removed his shield and knockup is valid... He was op late game. Now he's still strong late but is like the kog maw of the mid lane because he's so shit early with only autos and to trade with while they deal barely more than regular autos and still have poor auto timer coding.