Lissandra vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Lissandra
based on 1,298 Lissandra vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Malzahar
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Lissandra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some critical Lissandra versus Malzahar matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Lissandra usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Malzahar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lissandra and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Lissandra makes a bad counter to Malzahar.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Lissandra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lissandra into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lissandra 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Lissandra is a garbage counter for Malzahar. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Malzahar build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Malzahar than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 46.6% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Malzahar as Lissandra, Lissandra players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Lissandra vs Malzahar counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.6% win rate overall.
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