Rengar vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Rengar
based on 3,970 Rengar vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Malzahar
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Rengar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Rengar against Malzahar counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Rengar usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Rengar or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rengar usually loses when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Rengar makes a bad counter to Malzahar.
While Rengar does have a lower winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Rengar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Rengar into Malzaharas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Rengar has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Rengar is a somewhat poor counter to Malzahar. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rengar against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rengar to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Malzahar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rengar versus Malzahar build consist of Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Rengar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rengar had an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Malzahar as Rengar, Rengar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Rengar vs Malzahar battles, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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