Malzahar vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Malzahar
based on 1,985 Malzahar vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Azir
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Malzahar vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Malzahar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Malzahar vs. Azir counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Malzahar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Azir
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Azir?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when facing off against Azir, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a poor counter to Azir.
While Malzahar does have a lower winrate compared to Azir, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Malzahar into Azir.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Azir matchups, Azir 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.
Malzahar is a somewhat poor counter for Azir. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to counter Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Azir. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well 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 case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Malzahar versus Azir build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Azir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 48.4% battling Azir with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Azir as Malzahar, Malzahar players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Malzahar vs Azir matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Azir as Malzahar are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.