Malzahar vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Malzahar
based on 3,970 Malzahar vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Malzahar vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Malzahar versus Rengar counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rengar..
Malzahar often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Rengar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Rengar
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Rengar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when trying to fight Rengar, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a good counter for Rengar.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate compared to Rengar, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Rengar.
Furthermore, Malzahar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Rengar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter for Rengar. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to counter Rengar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically picks up much more CS compared to Rengar. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling 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 situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Malzahar versus Rengar build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Rengar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Rengar with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Rengar 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Malzahar vs Rengar face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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