Malzahar vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Malzahar
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Malzahar vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Malzahar vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Malzahar in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Malzahar versus Garen matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Malzahar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a good counter to Garen.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Garen.
Moreover, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Garen matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Garen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Garen as Malzahar, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Malzahar vs Garen counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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