Morgana vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Morgana
based on 6,981 Morgana vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Malzahar
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
Morgana vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Morgana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several influential Morgana versus Malzahar counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Morgana usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Morgana and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Morgana or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Morgana usually fairs equally well when taking on Malzahar, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Morgana makes an ok counter to Malzahar.
While Morgana does have a higher winrate compared to Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Morgana also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Malzahar matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Morgana is a decent counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Morgana against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana usually accumulates a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Morgana versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Malzahar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Morgana had an average win rate of 50.9% battling Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Malzahar as Morgana, Morgana players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Morgana vs Malzahar matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
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