Kai'Sa vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Kai'Sa
based on 5,090 Kai'Sa vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Malzahar
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some vital Kai'Sa against Malzahar matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
Kai'Sa typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Malzahar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Malzahar, with a 44.9% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Malzahar.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate compared to Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Malzahar.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well 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 case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Malzahar build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 44.9% battling Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Malzahar as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Malzahar face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.9% winrate overall.
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