Nocturne vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Nocturne
based on 6,967 Nocturne vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Malzahar
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Nocturne in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Nocturne against Malzahar counter statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nocturne typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Malzahar?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when playing against Malzahar, with a 54.5% win rate. Thus, Nocturne makes a great counter to Malzahar.
While Nocturne does have a much higher winrate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Nocturne has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Malzahar matchups, Nocturne 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 teamfights.
Nocturne is a great counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nocturne against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nocturne in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne typically gets a lot less CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nocturne versus Malzahar build include Edge of Night, Eclipse, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne had an average win rate of 54.5% when countering Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Malzahar as Nocturne, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Nocturne vs Malzahar LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.5% winrate overall.
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