Rek'Sai vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Rek'Sai
based on 572 Rek'Sai vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Malzahar
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Rek'Sai versus Malzahar counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malzahar..
Rek'Sai usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Rek'Sai makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Rek'Sai does have a much lower winrate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Rek'Sai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Rek'Sai into Malzahar.
Moreover, Rek'Sai has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Rek'Sai is a terribly counter for Malzahar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rek'Sai in order to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Rek'Sai versus Malzahar build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average winrate of 45.8% when playing against Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Malzahar as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Rek'Sai vs Malzahar matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.8% win rate overall.
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