Malzahar vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Malzahar
based on 1,065 Malzahar vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Malzahar vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several important Malzahar versus Ryze matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ryze..
Malzahar often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malzahar and Ryze
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when taking on Ryze, with a 56.3% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a fantastic counter to Ryze.
While Malzahar does have a much higher winrate compared to Ryze, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malzahar into Ryze.
Moreover, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Ryze matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Malzahar is a great counter to Ryze. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Malzahar against Ryze.
Other Champion Matchups Against Malzahar
Additional Information for Malzahar Players
How We Calculated Our Malzahar vs Ryze Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Ryze. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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 need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Malzahar versus Ryze build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Ryze than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 56.3% when playing against Ryze with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Ryze as Malzahar, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Ryze fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 56.3% win rate overall.
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