Sivir vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Sivir
based on 1,887 Sivir vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sivir vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Sivir vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Sivir
Tips for Playing as Sivir against Malzahar
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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.
Sivir vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Sivir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several valuable Sivir versus Malzahar counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the pair. Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
Sivir typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sivir and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Sivir or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sivir usually wins when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Sivir makes a good counter for Malzahar.
While Sivir does have a higher win rate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Sivir also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Sivir into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Sivir has only a small 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Malzahar matchups, Sivir is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Sivir is a decent counter to Malzahar. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sivir against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sivir in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Sivir versus Malzahar build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Phantom Dancer, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Malzahar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Sivir had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing against Malzahar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Malzahar as Sivir, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sivir vs Malzahar matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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