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.
Fizz's attacks becomes more deadly for a few seconds after he uses his empowered attack - keep him away while his trident is glowing!
Fizz is a slippery target when his abilities are not on cooldown - bait him into using them early and follow up with crowd control or hard-hitting attacks!
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Malzahar against Fizz counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fizz’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Fizz..
Malzahar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Fizz. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when facing off against Fizz, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a poor counter for Fizz.
While Malzahar does have a lower win rate than Fizz, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Malzahar into Fizz.
Additionally, Malzahar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fizz. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Fizz matchups, Fizz is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a bad counter to Fizz. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Malzahar against Fizz.
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to counter Fizz during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Fizz. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Fizz build include Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Fizz than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 47.7% battling Fizz with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Fizz as Malzahar, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Fizz LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
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