Warwick vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Warwick
based on 5,613 Warwick vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Malzahar
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Warwick in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Warwick against Malzahar matchup statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Warwick often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Warwick and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Warwick or Malzahar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Warwick usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Warwick makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Warwick does have a lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Warwick also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Warwick into Malzahar.
Moreover, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Warwick is a terribly counter to Malzahar. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Warwick against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Warwick 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick often picks up a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Warwick versus Malzahar build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Malzahar than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 47.1% when countering Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Malzahar as Warwick, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Warwick vs Malzahar fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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