Malzahar vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Malzahar
based on 1,012 Malzahar vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Malzahar vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Malzahar vs. Kalista matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Malzahar typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Kalista
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Kalista?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when taking on Kalista, with a 55.1% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Malzahar does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malzahar into Kalista.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Kalista matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Malzahar is a great counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Kalista build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Kalista than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 55.1% when countering Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Kalista 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 Kalista battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.1% win rate overall.
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