Senna vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Senna
based on 5,251 Senna vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Senna vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Senna vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Senna
Advice to Win Against Malzahar
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Senna vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Senna in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Senna versus Malzahar matchup statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Senna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Senna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Senna usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Senna and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Senna or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Senna usually loses when taking on Malzahar, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Senna makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Senna does have a lower win rate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Senna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Senna into Malzaharas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Senna also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Senna vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Senna is a bad counter for Malzahar. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Senna against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Senna to counter Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Senna on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Malzahar. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Senna versus Malzahar build consist of Kraken Slayer, Rapid Firecannon, and Umbral Glaive. When Senna used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Senna had an average winrate of 47.4% battling Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Malzahar as Senna, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Cut Down, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Senna vs Malzahar counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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