Malzahar vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Malzahar
based on 1,954 Malzahar vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Nilah
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.
Malzahar vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Malzahar vs. Nilah matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nilah..
Malzahar typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Nilah. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Nilah
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when taking on Nilah, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a bad counter to Nilah.
While Malzahar does have a lower winrate than Nilah, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Malzahar into Nilah.
Additionally, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a bad counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar in order to counter Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nilah. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Malzahar versus Nilah build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Nilah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 46.8% battling Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Nilah as Malzahar, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Nilah counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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