Malzahar vs Viego
How to Beat Viego as Malzahar
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Malzahar vs Viego Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viego as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Viego
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.
Malzahar vs Viego Counter Stats
How to Counter Viego with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Malzahar against Viego counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viego’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Viego..
Malzahar normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Viego. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Viego?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when playing against Viego, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes an ok counter for Viego.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate than Viego, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Viego.
Moreover, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viego. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Viego matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter to Viego. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Viego.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to counter Viego during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average accumulates much more CS as Viego. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Malzahar versus Viego build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Viego than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 50.7% battling Viego with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Viego as Malzahar, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Malzahar vs Viego LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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