Rakan vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Rakan
based on 3,426 Rakan vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Malzahar
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several strategic Rakan versus Malzahar matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malzahar. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rakan typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rakan and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Rakan or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Rakan makes a good counter to Malzahar.
While Rakan does have a higher winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Rakan also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Rakan into Malzahar.
Moreover, Rakan also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Malzahar matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rakan is a decent counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Malzahar 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan on average racks up a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Rakan versus Malzahar build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Malzahar than with many other common builds. In fact, Rakan had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Malzahar as Rakan, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Rakan vs Malzahar counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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