Malzahar vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Malzahar
based on 6,967 Malzahar vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Nocturne
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 Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Malzahar vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Malzahar against Nocturne counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nocturne..
Malzahar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when taking on Nocturne, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a poor counter for Nocturne.
While Malzahar does have a much lower win rate compared to Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Malzahar into Nocturne.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Malzahar is a terribly counter to Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Malzahar against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar most often racks up much more CS as Nocturne. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Nocturne build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Malzahar used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 45.5% battling Nocturne with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Nocturne as Malzahar, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Nocturne fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% winrate overall.
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