Malzahar vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Malzahar
based on 5,613 Malzahar vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Malzahar vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several critical Malzahar versus Warwick counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Warwick..
Malzahar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Warwick. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Warwick
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Warwick?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when taking on Warwick, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a good counter to Warwick.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate than Warwick, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malzahar into Warwick.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Warwick matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Malzahar is a good counter for Warwick. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Malzahar against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar in order to counter Warwick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average racks up much more CS compared to Warwick. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Malzahar versus Warwick build consist of Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Warwick than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 52.9% battling Warwick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Warwick as Malzahar, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Future's Market, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Malzahar vs Warwick face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.9% winrate overall.
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