Brand vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Brand
based on 7,624 Brand vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Malzahar
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Brand against Malzahar matchup statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Brand often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Brand or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes an ok counter for Malzahar.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Malzahar.
Additionally, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Malzahar matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Brand is a decent counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Brand against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand usually picks up less CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Brand versus Malzahar build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Malzahar as Brand, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Brand vs Malzahar counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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