Ahri vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Ahri
based on 3,773 Ahri vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Malzahar
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Ahri vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Ahri vs. Malzahar matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Ahri often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Ahri or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Malzahar, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Malzahar.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a trash counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ahri versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Malzahar as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Ahri vs Malzahar counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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