Miss Fortune vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Miss Fortune
based on 16,965 Miss Fortune vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Miss Fortune vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Miss Fortune vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Miss Fortune
Tips for Playing as Miss Fortune against Malzahar
Miss Fortune ramps up speed if she hasn't recently taken damage. Avoid getting hit to move very fast.
Use Double Up on the furthest enemy minion if enemy champions are hiding in back; it will bounce to them for lots of damage.
Make sure to utilize Love Tap while Strut is on cooldown to maximize the active's availability.
Advice to Win Against Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Miss Fortune vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Miss Fortune in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Miss Fortune versus Malzahar matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Miss Fortune may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Miss Fortune normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Miss Fortune and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Miss Fortune or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Miss Fortune usually wins when facing off against Malzahar, with a 53.9% win rate. Therefore, Miss Fortune makes a great counter to Malzahar.
While Miss Fortune does have a higher win rate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Miss Fortune also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Miss Fortune into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Miss Fortune has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Miss Fortune vs Malzahar matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Miss Fortune is a great counter for Malzahar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Miss Fortune against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Miss Fortune in order to counter Malzahar during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Miss Fortune often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Miss Fortune versus Malzahar build include Edge of Night, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Miss Fortune bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Miss Fortune boasted an average win rate of 53.9% when playing against Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Malzahar as Miss Fortune, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Miss Fortune vs Malzahar counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.9% winrate overall.
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