Malzahar vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Malzahar
based on 3,858 Malzahar vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malzahar vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Malzahar vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Malzahar vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Malzahar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Malzahar versus Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, showing that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Xin Zhao..
Malzahar normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malzahar and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Malzahar or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when facing off against Xin Zhao, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Malzahar makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While Malzahar does have a lower win rate than Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Malzahar into Xin Zhao.
Furthermore, Malzahar also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Malzahar is a trash counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malzahar against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Malzahar to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar typically racks up much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Malzahar versus Xin Zhao build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when countering Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Xin Zhao as Malzahar, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Malzahar vs Xin Zhao matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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