Fiddlesticks vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Fiddlesticks against Malzahar counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
Fiddlesticks normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually fairs equally well when taking on Malzahar, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes an ok counter for Malzahar.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Fiddlesticks into Malzaharas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a somewhat poor counter for Malzahar. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Fiddlesticks versus Malzahar build consist of Cryptbloom, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Malzahar as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Fiddlesticks vs Malzahar battles, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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