Illaoi vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Illaoi
based on 2,415 Illaoi vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Malzahar
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Illaoi versus Malzahar matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Illaoi often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a poor counter to Malzahar.
While Illaoi does have a lower winrate than Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Illaoi into Malzahar.
Moreover, Illaoi has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Illaoi is a trash counter to Malzahar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Malzahar build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Malzahar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 47.4% when countering Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Malzahar as Illaoi, Illaoi players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Illaoi vs Malzahar fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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