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.
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Malzahar against Morgana counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between these two champions. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Morgana..
Malzahar typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Morgana. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when taking on Morgana, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes an ok counter for Morgana.
While Malzahar does have a lower win rate than Morgana, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Morgana.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Morgana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Malzahar is a somewhat poor counter to Morgana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Morgana.
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Morgana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar most often picks up much more CS compared to Morgana. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Morgana build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Morgana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Morgana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Morgana as Malzahar, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Malzahar vs Morgana fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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