Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats shown on this page underscore several significant Malzahar against Singed counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. Malzahar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malzahar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Singed..
Malzahar often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Singed. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malzahar usually loses when facing off against Singed, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Malzahar makes a bad counter for Singed.
While Malzahar does have a lower win rate compared to Singed, when on opposite teams, Malzahar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Malzahar into Singed.
Additionally, Malzahar has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malzahar vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Malzahar is a trash counter for Singed. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malzahar against Singed.
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malzahar usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Singed. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Malzahar versus Singed build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Singed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Singed with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Singed as Malzahar, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Malzahar vs Singed face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Singed as Malzahar are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.