Malzahar vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Malzahar
based on 4,833 Malzahar vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Malzahar vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Malzahar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several influential Malzahar against Graves matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Malzahar typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Graves?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when playing against Graves, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Malzahar does have a lower winrate compared to Graves, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Graves.
Furthermore, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion 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 somewhat poor counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Graves.
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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 Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often picks up much more CS as Graves. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Malzahar versus Graves build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Graves than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Graves as Malzahar, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Malzahar vs Graves matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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