Sejuani vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Sejuani
based on 1,273 Sejuani vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sejuani vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Sejuani vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Sejuani
Tips for Playing as Sejuani against Malzahar
Melee allies can stack Frost for your Permafrost, keep an eye on who they are attacking.
Save Glacial Prison for encounters where you have teammates present to take advantage of it.
Use Arctic Assault to escape bad situations, interupt channeled spells or chase runners.
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.
Sejuani vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Sejuani in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Sejuani versus Malzahar matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champs. Sejuani’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sejuani may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Sejuani often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sejuani and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Sejuani or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sejuani usually loses when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Sejuani makes a bad counter to Malzahar.
While Sejuani does have a lower win rate than Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Sejuani also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sejuani into Malzahar.
Additionally, Sejuani also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Sejuani vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sejuani is a somewhat poor counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sejuani against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sejuani in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sejuani typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Sejuani versus Malzahar build include Iceborn Gauntlet, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Sejuani combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Sejuani boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Malzahar as Sejuani, Sejuani players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Sejuani vs Malzahar counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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