Thresh vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Thresh
based on 4,476 Thresh vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Malzahar
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Thresh against Malzahar counter stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Thresh or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Thresh into Malzaharas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a lot 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 Thresh 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.
Thresh is a bad counter to Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 most important items to use in your Thresh versus Malzahar build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Malzahar as Thresh, you 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 runes players used for Thresh vs Malzahar clashes, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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