Malzahar vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Malzahar
based on 1,388 Malzahar vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Malzahar vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown here show some influential Malzahar vs. Jayce counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Jayce..
Malzahar often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Jayce. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Jayce
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Jayce?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when playing against Jayce, with a 53.4% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a great counter to Jayce.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate compared to Jayce, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malzahar into Jayce.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. 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 Jayce matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Malzahar is a great counter for Jayce. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Jayce during both the laning 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 suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jayce. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Malzahar versus Jayce build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Jayce than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 53.4% when countering Jayce with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Jayce 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 sets that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Jayce fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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