Malzahar vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Malzahar
based on 1,757 Malzahar vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Malzahar vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Malzahar against K'Sante counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than K'Sante..
Malzahar typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than K'Sante. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Malzahar or K'Sante?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when facing off against K'Sante, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes a good counter to K'Sante.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate than K'Sante, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into K'Sante.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs K'Sante matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar to counter K'Sante during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar most often picks up a similar amount of CS as K'Sante. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Malzahar versus K'Sante build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs K'Sante than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing K'Sante as Malzahar, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Malzahar vs K'Sante battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% win rate overall.
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