THE BEST AZUMARILL BUILD GUIDE - POKEMON UNITE

Yes, no need to get corrective eye surgery, you do indeed see Drain Crown listed as a suggested item! Some math has been run after the buffs and it actually does turn out to have really decent sustain efficacy. This does come at the cost of some damage, which before did not warrant the meager healing increase…that is no longer the case. If heavy damage is present elsewhere, it can make the difference with giving Azu the staying power he needs to continually press a lane for long periods of time.

Azumarill has been changed to be a 4/6/8 spread mon, meaning he evolves AND gets his first move upgrade at 4. This, along with ult being at lvl 8, means Azu can now lane VERY well, can push leads VERY hard, and can snowball VERY easily.

In early game, after grabbing a couple of bunnies while running to lane, you immediately go to dunk that. After that dunk, turn right around and do you best to try to steal that topside bunny on the enemy side, using Tackle to stun any enemy close by contesting it and Bubble. If you manage to secure that and then dunk those points as well, you’re given your coveted lvl 4 and evolution. It’s best case scenario of course, but that’s a fast track way to get right to your power spike and start bullying as hard as you can.

Aqua Tail gives more cdr on hit along with its great scaling and huge healing. It relies more on proper spacing and skill than Whirlpool so more volatile (and enemies to not be mobile), but if you can reliably hit on that outer edge all the time it can give good results, and now allows for much more move spamming.

Pretty oppressive in 1v1s, can even dive under enemy goalpad if they are isolated. His main calling card is his spammable ulti, it gives a ton of atk stat and it’s up like every minute. Even in a group where his passive is turned off, an ulti-buffed Azu is pretty oppressive and can force kills/pushes.
Atk weight boosts both your dmg AND the amount you heal from tail/pool so it doubledips and has great returns. That 517% total scaling on all 3 hits makes weight pretttyyyy attractive. This of course plays into WP bonus as well, which gets even BIGGER returns when ult is active, since your atk pool is way fatter for that 12% to pull from.

Tail hits count as autoattacks, so they also apply the muscle (and crown lol) proc, so you can swap Amp out for muscle if you want to focus entirely on your laning phase, which many do choose. Muscle also speeds up the Tail animation nicely for smoother exchanges. Amp leans more into making plays around when your ult is up, and popping backlines at all costs. Scope rewards your single target spacing with a flat buff to all your dmg, and a nice proc. Very high output if you can space well and avoid hitting multiples.

Think of him more as an assassin/flanker than a bulky brawler and you’ll have more success.

Same general idea as Tail, except you aren’t bothering with proper spacing and just ramming your forehead against enemies until they keel over. The movespeed from Play Rough gives you some more agency to chase down those backliners and the stun disrupts a lot of those combo-oriented divers. Much less work/effort intensive as Tail, however damage ramps over time rather than the sudden burst of dmg and heals Tail gives in crucial moments.
You find yourself more frequently in harm’s way (and also sustaining a bit longer) with this build, which plays into Weakness more naturally and less into Scope’s single target favor.

Favourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined AZUMARILL is strong against. AZUMARILL will generally be able to shut down these opponents playstyle's or have the advantage in a one on one fight.

Unfavourable Matchup:

These are Pokémon that our team has determined AZUMARILL is weak against. These Pokémon will have the upper hand in a fight or be able to exploit AZUMARILL's weaknesses.