Leona vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Leona
based on 4,589 Leona vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Malzahar
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Leona versus Malzahar counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between this set of champions. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Malzahar. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Leona often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Leona or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Malzahar, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter to Malzahar.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Malzahar.
Moreover, Leona also has a very large 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Malzahar matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Leona is a good counter to Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually accumulates a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Leona versus Malzahar build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Malzahar with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Malzahar as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Leona vs Malzahar battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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