Nidalee vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Nidalee
based on 772 Nidalee vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Malzahar
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Nidalee versus Malzahar counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Malzahar..
Nidalee normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Malzahar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 43.9% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Malzaharas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nidalee versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 43.9% battling Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Malzahar as Nidalee, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Malzahar battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.9% winrate overall.
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