Malzahar vs Trundle
How to Beat Trundle as Malzahar
based on 7,921 Malzahar vs Trundle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Trundle Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Trundle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Trundle as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Trundle
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 Trundle
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
Malzahar vs Trundle Counter Stats
How to Counter Trundle with Malzahar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Malzahar vs. Trundle counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Trundle..
Malzahar often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Trundle. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Trundle
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Trundle?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when facing off against Trundle, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Malzahar makes a poor counter to Trundle.
While Malzahar does have a much lower winrate than Trundle, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Malzahar into Trundle.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Trundle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Malzahar is a bad counter for Trundle. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Trundle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Trundle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Trundle. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Malzahar versus Trundle build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Trundle than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when playing against Trundle with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Trundle as Malzahar, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Malzahar vs Trundle fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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