Malzahar vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Malzahar
based on 1,122 Malzahar vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Cassiopeia
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Advice to Win Against Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Malzahar vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some significant Malzahar against Cassiopeia matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia..
Malzahar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Cassiopeia. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Cassiopeia?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a great counter for Cassiopeia.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate than Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malzahar into Cassiopeia.
Furthermore, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Cassiopeia matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Malzahar is a great counter to Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar usually gets a similar amount of CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Malzahar versus Cassiopeia build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Cassiopeia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Cassiopeia as Malzahar, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Cassiopeia counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% win rate overall.
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