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.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several strategic Malzahar vs. Fiora counter stats that may help us explain the distinctions between these two champs. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiora’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Fiora..
Malzahar often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Fiora. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when taking on Fiora, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes an ok counter for Fiora.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate than Fiora, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Fiora.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiora. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Fiora matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Malzahar is a decent counter for Fiora. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Fiora.
To truly master Malzahar to counter Fiora during both the laning 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 shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Fiora. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Malzahar versus Fiora build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Fiora than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Fiora with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Fiora as Malzahar, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Fiora counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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