Rell vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Rell
based on 1,542 Rell vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rell vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Rell vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Rell
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.
Rell vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Rell in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Rell vs. Malzahar matchup stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Malzahar. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Rell normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Malzahar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rell and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Rell or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when playing against Malzahar, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Rell makes an ok counter for Malzahar.
While Rell does have a lower win rate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rell into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Rell has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rell against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell typically gets a lot less CS compared to Malzahar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Rell versus Malzahar build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rell used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 49.5% when playing against Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Malzahar as Rell, Rell players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rell vs Malzahar counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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