Azir vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Azir
based on 1,985 Azir vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Malzahar
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some significant Azir vs. Malzahar matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malzahar..
Azir usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Azir or Malzahar?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when facing off against Malzahar, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a good counter to Malzahar.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Malzahar, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Azir into Malzaharas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Malzahar matchups, Azir is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Azir is a decent counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Azir versus Malzahar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Banshee's Veil, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Malzahar than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 51.6% battling Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Malzahar as Azir, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Azir vs Malzahar LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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