Kalista vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Kalista
based on 1,012 Kalista vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Core Kalista Items
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Malzahar
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Kalista versus Malzahar matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between this pair of champions. Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Kalista typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Malzahar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kalista and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Kalista or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 44.9% win rate. Therefore, Kalista makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Kalista does have a much lower winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Kalista also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kalista into Malzaharas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kalista is a bad counter to Malzahar. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kalista against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kalista versus Malzahar build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 44.9% when playing against Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Malzahar as Kalista, Kalista players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kalista vs Malzahar counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.9% winrate overall.
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