Malzahar vs Senna
How to Beat Senna as Malzahar
based on 8,883 Malzahar vs Senna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Senna Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Senna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Senna as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Senna
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 Senna Counter Stats
How to Counter Senna with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some valuable Malzahar against Senna matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Senna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Senna..
Malzahar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Senna. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Senna
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Senna?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when playing against Senna, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a bad counter to Senna.
While Malzahar does have a lower win rate compared to Senna, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Senna.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Senna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Senna matchups, Senna is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Malzahar is a somewhat poor counter for Senna. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Senna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to counter Senna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically picks up much more CS as Senna. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Malzahar versus Senna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Senna than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 48.8% when countering Senna with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Senna as Malzahar, Malzahar players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Senna matchups, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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