Gragas vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Gragas
based on 1,883 Gragas vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Malzahar
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several critical Gragas against Malzahar counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Gragas often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Gragas or Malzahar?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 44.5% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Gragas does have a much lower winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Malzahar.
Moreover, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a terribly counter to Malzahar. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often picks up less CS as Malzahar. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Gragas versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 44.5% battling Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Malzahar as Gragas, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Gragas vs Malzahar LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Gragas are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.