Tristana vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Tristana
based on 4,424 Tristana vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Malzahar
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some valuable Tristana against Malzahar counter stats that can help us realize the differences between these two champs. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Malzahar..
Tristana often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Malzahar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Tristana or Malzahar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when facing off against Malzahar, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Tristana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Tristana against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tristana to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tristana versus Malzahar build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Malzahar as Tristana, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tristana vs Malzahar clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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