Zed vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Zed
based on 4,458 Zed vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Malzahar
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some strategic Zed against Malzahar counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Zed or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Malzahar, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Malzaharas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zed is a bad counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zed against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zed versus Malzahar build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.1% battling Malzahar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Malzahar as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zed vs Malzahar clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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