Malzahar Counters

Every matchup shown here, both the champions that give Malzahar trouble and the ones it handles well, is calculated from live ranked Mid lane data. At the moment, Dr. Mundo, Irelia and Nasus are the toughest lanes for Malzahar, the ones where its win rate falls furthest under its baseline. Dr. Mundo is the most punishing of them: Malzahar takes only 38.2% of its 110 logged games. On the other side, Aatrox, Pantheon and LeBlanc are the picks Malzahar tends to beat, good options to target during champion select.

Each card displays Malzahar’s win rate in that matchup along with the sample size beneath it. Large samples with tens of thousands of games carry more weight than a handful of hundreds. Easy, Even and Hard tags are derived from those percentages: under 48% is labeled Hard, over 52% is Easy, and everything in between is Even. They serve only as a quick guide and aren’t a distinct statistic. The figures pull from ranked games at Emerald and higher across every region, covering patch 16.13.1, and update every 48 hours, so they shift as the meta does. A counter list is only part of the story, so look at the current Malzahar build for top items and runes, or visit the Malzahar champion page for ability details and everything else.