Malzahar vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Malzahar
based on 1,373 Malzahar vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Malzahar vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several important Malzahar against Taliyah counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taliyah..
Malzahar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually wins when playing against Taliyah, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Malzahar does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Malzahar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malzahar into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Taliyah matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Malzahar is a decent counter to Taliyah. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well 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 situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Taliyah build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Taliyah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Taliyah as Malzahar, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Malzahar vs Taliyah counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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