Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant LeBlanc versus Malzahar counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
LeBlanc often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 43.8% win rate. As a result, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Malzahar.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower win rate than Malzahar, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking LeBlanc into Malzaharas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, LeBlanc has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a terribly counter to Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Malzahar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Malzahar. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your LeBlanc versus Malzahar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Malzahar than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 43.8% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Malzahar as LeBlanc, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for LeBlanc vs Malzahar matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.8% win rate overall.
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