Taliyah vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Taliyah
based on 1,373 Taliyah vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Malzahar
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Taliyah in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Taliyah vs. Malzahar counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Taliyah typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Taliyah does have a lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taliyah into Malzahar.
Moreover, Taliyah has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Taliyah 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter for Malzahar. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taliyah 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Malzahar than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Malzahar as Taliyah, Taliyah players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Taliyah vs Malzahar clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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