Malzahar vs Xerath Counter Build
How to Beat Xerath as Malzahar
Summary
At MOBA Champion, we summarize millions of recently ranked LoL rounds each and every week. In our dataset, Malzahar did battle with Xerath in 11,747 matches. With so many games with Malzahar versus Xerath provides us faith in our ability to produce actionable statistics and a supported build to suppress your foe.
This particular matchup is somewhat rare. Malzahar encounters Xerath in only 3.1% of his games. Malzahar has done a average job of beating Xerath. On average, he wins a acceptable 50.0% of the time the champs battle one another in. In Malzahar against Xerath matches, Malzahar’s side is 2.0% less probable to earn first blood, implying that he most likely won't be able to get first blood versus Xerath.
Matchups Analyzed
Win Rate
Team First Blood
Best Malzahar Items to Counter Xerath
The ideal items to focus on in your Malzahar versus Xerath build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Anguish. When Malzahar used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Xerath than with most other typical item sets.
Best Malzahar Runes to Counter Xerath
To have the best chance of vanquishing Xerath as Malzahar, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes. Out of all the runes we have analyed/that we analyzed for Malzahar vs Xerath battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. We have also included the best Xerath runes to fend off Malzahar to help you grasp how he will likely be setup to try to beat your champion.
Best Malzahar Runes
Summon Aery
Manaflow Band
Transcendence
Gathering Storm
Magical Footwear
Biscuit DeliveryBest Xerath Runes
Arcane Comet Manaflow Band Transcendence Gathering Storm Magical Footwear
Cosmic InsightStats
The subsequent tables show some valuable Malzahar versus Xerath matchup stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of 2.1 is worse than Xerath’s ratio of 3.1, indicating that Malzahar may be less central to his team's team fighting potential than Xerath.
Battle Stats
Kills
Deaths
Assists
Largest Killing Spree
Damage Dealt
Damage Taken
Objective Stats
Towers Destroyed
Inhibitors Destroyed
Dragons Killed
Barons Killed
Gold Earned
Minions Killed
Malzahar typically has a significant smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, Malzahar takes a similar amount of damage to Xerath. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Malzahar usually tallies much more CS than Xerath. Champions who on average do not earn very much CS typically don't need much CS to be useful. Instead, they are capable of scaling properly off of their skills and stats alone. However, champions with large numbers of minion kills, such as carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, work to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
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How We Analyze Our Matchups
For this counter guide, we analyzed 11747 Malzahar vs Xerath matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Xerath as Malzahar comes from real data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view the most relevant stats and items to your rank.