Naafiri vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Naafiri
based on 1,687 Naafiri vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Naafiri
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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.
Naafiri vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Naafiri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several significant Naafiri vs. Malzahar matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Malzahar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Naafiri usually has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives more damage than Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Naafiri makes an ok counter to Malzahar.
While Naafiri does have a higher winrate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Malzahar.
Moreover, Naafiri has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Malzahar matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a decent counter to Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to counter Malzahar during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually gets a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Naafiri versus Malzahar build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better vs. Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 50.4% battling Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Malzahar as Naafiri, Naafiri players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Naafiri vs Malzahar face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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