Malzahar vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Malzahar
based on 1,813 Malzahar vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Lulu
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 Lulu
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
Malzahar vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Malzahar in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Malzahar versus Lulu matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lulu. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Malzahar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lulu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Lulu
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Lulu?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when trying to fight Lulu, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes a good counter for Lulu.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate than Lulu, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Malzahar into Lulu.
Additionally, Malzahar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Lulu matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter for Lulu. Make sure you focus your play 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 Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar in order to counter Lulu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often racks up much more CS compared to Lulu. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Malzahar versus Lulu build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Lulu than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 51.9% when countering Lulu with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Lulu 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. Of all the runes players picked for Malzahar vs Lulu face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lulu as Malzahar are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.