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Kassadin is an extremely hard counter to Malzahar. High mobility, built-in magic resist, and better scaling. The only thing you can do in this lane is pray you get ganks because your ult can still counter his mobility.
Syndra
Longer range, more burst, and better scaling. Syndra is all around a scary champion to deal with. Her lack of mobility will make it easier to lock her down.
Corki
Corki has some decent poke potential to keep your passive down, and he's got a fairly safe lane thanks to his ability to dash out of danger. While he has the disadvantage of being squishy, he also isnt quite as reliant on his abilities as other midlaners, making your silence less effective as well.
Viktor
While he can poke down your shield a bit easier then some midlane champs, he doesn't have a ton of burst early on, and you should be able to avoid his stun cage if you aren't making silly mistakes.
Anivia
She has a few ways to easily pop your shield, she can drop a wall to cut you off from safety, her R can easily kill your minions, and even if you do take her down her passive may save her life yet. However, she is SUPER weak early on, and her Q stun is slow. Watch her mana and keep moving, and just be conscious that after 6 she get's a lot scarier to face.
Ahri
As long as you play safe and play around your passive, it should be pretty hard for her to get an all in on you. Keep mobile so she cant land easy Q's, play back and safe when your shields down, and you should be ok.
Katarina
Her movement's are highly predictable since they're pretty dictated by her daggers. You can also cancel her ult with either your Q or your own ult, so as long as you don't waste them willy nilly, she put's herself at high risk to try to all in you. The biggest issue is just the somewhat unpredictability of her daggers bounce. can cost you your passive if you're a bit closer to minions then you realize.
Xerath
Sits back and farms with his Q. Kills your pets easy and when u go in to farm pokes u. Farm and dodge lane early until you are strong enough to flash / ulti combo to kill him
Galio
Galio is a hard matchup. His winds of war and passive AoE kills ur pets. If you walk up to farm early he will dash taunt u. Later he becomes tanky so just focus on farm. Ping SS and mid game you will just do what malz does best
Lux
Farm with pets after she uses her circle ability. Care when not many minions in the wave. Dodge he Q and you are fine.. Get hit by Q and she will chunk you with her combo.
Vel'Koz
His kit has much better wave clear for lower mana costs early, he kills your voidlings and can poke u if ur lane positioning is not good. Play safe farm up and use your Q or ulti to cancel his ulti.
Lissandra
Move away from the Claws so you dont get stunned. Mercs and banshees a must vs this matchup
Zed
Early zhonya to counter his ulti essential here. Also matchup will vary depending on how quickly Zed buys a QSS.
Yuumi
Yuumi is a very good champion that goes well with Malzahar. She can Ultimate while she's on you so you have an easier target to hit with your own Ultimate.
Shen
Shen always works with anyone, because of his Shield.
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Yuumi
Yuumi is a very good champion that goes well with Malzahar. She can Ultimate while she's on you so you have an easier target to hit with your own Ultimate.
Shen
Shen always works with anyone, because of his Shield.
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