Malzahar vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Malzahar
based on 3,345 Malzahar vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Malzahar vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Malzahar against Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin..
Malzahar usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 54.7% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a great counter to Lee Sin.
While Malzahar does have a much higher win rate than Lee Sin, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malzahar into Lee Sin.
Furthermore, Malzahar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Lee Sin matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a great counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar in order to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often gets much more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Lee Sin build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Lee Sin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 54.7% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Lee Sin as Malzahar, you 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 builds players used for Malzahar vs Lee Sin face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lee Sin as Malzahar are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.