Malzahar vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Malzahar
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Malzahar vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Malzahar vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Malzahar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some valuable Malzahar vs. Vayne counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vayne’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Vayne..
Malzahar usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Vayne. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Vayne
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Vayne?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually fairs equally well when playing against Vayne, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes an ok counter for Vayne.
While Malzahar does have a higher win rate compared to Vayne, when facing one another, Malzahar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Malzahar into Vayne.
Additionally, Malzahar also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Vayne matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Malzahar is a decent counter to Vayne. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Vayne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to counter Vayne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow 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 Vayne. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Malzahar versus Vayne build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Vayne than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Vayne with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Vayne as Malzahar, Malzahar players should take 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 builds players used for Malzahar vs Vayne battles, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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