Ashe vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Ashe
based on 8,637 Ashe vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ashe vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Ashe vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Ashe
Tips for Playing as Ashe against Malzahar
Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
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.
Ashe vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Ashe in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some valuable Ashe versus Malzahar matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Ashe usually has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ashe and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Ashe or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ashe usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Ashe makes a bad counter to Malzahar.
While Ashe does have a lower win rate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Ashe also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ashe into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Ashe has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ashe is a garbage counter to Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ashe against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ashe to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ashe versus Malzahar build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Ashe included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Malzahar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Ashe boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Malzahar as Ashe, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Ashe vs Malzahar battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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