Vex vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Vex
based on 2,222 Vex vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Vex
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.
Vex vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Vex in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Vex versus Malzahar counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Vex usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vex and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Vex or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vex usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Vex does have a lower winrate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vex into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vex vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vex is a trash counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vex against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Vex versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vex used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs Malzahar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 47.5% when countering Malzahar with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Malzahar as Vex, Vex players should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Vex vs Malzahar counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Vex are given for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.