Cassiopeia vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Cassiopeia
based on 1,122 Cassiopeia vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cassiopeia vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia against Malzahar
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.
Cassiopeia vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Cassiopeia in LoL
The stats shown here feature several influential Cassiopeia versus Malzahar counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
Cassiopeia usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cassiopeia and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Cassiopeia or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cassiopeia usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Cassiopeia makes a poor counter to Malzahar.
While Cassiopeia does have a lower winrate than Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Cassiopeia also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Cassiopeia into Malzaharas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Cassiopeia has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Cassiopeia is a terribly counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cassiopeia against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia in order 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Cassiopeia versus Malzahar build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Cassiopeia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Malzahar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Cassiopeia boasted an average winrate of 46.9% battling Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Malzahar as Cassiopeia, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Cassiopeia vs Malzahar fights, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Cassiopeia are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.