Mordekaiser vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Mordekaiser
based on 8,811 Mordekaiser vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Mordekaiser vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Mordekaiser vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser against Malzahar
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Advice to Win Against Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Mordekaiser vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Mordekaiser in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some influential Mordekaiser versus Malzahar matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malzahar..
Mordekaiser often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Mordekaiser and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Mordekaiser or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when facing off against Malzahar, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Mordekaiser makes a good counter for Malzahar.
While Mordekaiser does have a higher winrate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Mordekaiser also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Mordekaiser into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Mordekaiser also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Malzahar matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Mordekaiser is a decent counter to Malzahar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Mordekaiser against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Mordekaiser versus Malzahar build include Nashor's Tooth, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Malzahar as Mordekaiser, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Mordekaiser vs Malzahar battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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