Malzahar vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Malzahar
based on 3,426 Malzahar vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Malzahar vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several significant Malzahar versus Rakan matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Malzahar normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Rakan
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when playing against Rakan, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes a bad counter to Rakan.
While Malzahar does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Rakan.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar in order to counter Rakan during both the laning 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 stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar often racks up much more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Malzahar versus Rakan build include Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Rakan as Malzahar, you should use 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 players picked for Malzahar vs Rakan matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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