Zoe vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Zoe
based on 1,706 Zoe vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Malzahar
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons 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.
Zoe vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Zoe versus Malzahar matchup stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Zoe often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zoe and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Zoe or Malzahar?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 43.5% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter for Malzahar.
While Zoe does have a much lower winrate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zoe into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Zoe has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter for Malzahar. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Malzahar build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Malzahar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 43.5% when playing against Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Malzahar as Zoe, Zoe players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zoe vs Malzahar battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.5% winrate overall.
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