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.
Teemo's Toxic Shot punishes players who get hit and back out, so stay at a safe range until you're ready to commit.
It can be valuable to use Oracle's Lens(Trinket) to destroy mushrooms around key locations.
The stats shown here clarify some critical Malzahar versus Teemo matchup statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Teemo’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Teemo..
Malzahar often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Teemo. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when taking on Teemo, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes a poor counter to Teemo.
While Malzahar does have a lower winrate compared to Teemo, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Malzahar into Teemo.
Moreover, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Teemo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Teemo matchups, Teemo is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Malzahar is a trash counter to Teemo. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Malzahar against Teemo.
To truly master Malzahar to counter Teemo during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically accumulates more CS compared to Teemo. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Teemo build include Seraph's Embrace, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Teemo than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 47.9% battling Teemo with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Teemo as Malzahar, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Malzahar vs Teemo face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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