Jayce vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Jayce
based on 1,388 Jayce vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Malzahar
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Jayce versus Malzahar counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
Jayce typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Jayce or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Jayce makes a poor counter to Malzahar.
While Jayce does have a lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Jayce also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Jayce into Malzaharas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Jayce is a trash counter to Malzahar. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jayce to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Jayce versus Malzahar build include Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Jayce bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Malzahar than with many other common builds. In fact, Jayce boasted an average winrate of 46.6% battling Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Malzahar as Jayce, Jayce players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Jayce vs Malzahar clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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