Malzahar vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Malzahar
based on 6,813 Malzahar vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Lucian Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Malzahar Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Lucian as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Malzahar vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Malzahar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Malzahar against Lucian matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian..
Malzahar typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes less damage than Lucian. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Lucian
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Malzahar or Lucian?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when facing off against Lucian, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a good counter to Lucian.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Malzahar into Lucian.
Furthermore, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Lucian matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is an above average counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Lucian.
Other Champion Matchups Against Malzahar
Additional Information for Malzahar Players
How We Calculated Our Malzahar vs Lucian Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Lucian. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Malzahar versus Lucian build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Lucian than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 52.1% when countering Lucian with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Lucian as Malzahar, Malzahar players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Malzahar vs Lucian clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lucian as Malzahar are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located above.