How to win lane as Cassiopeia against Malzahar · 48.76% win rate over 804 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Even trades — his Visions poke chips you but he has no all-in tools yet, so it's a skill matchup |
| Level 2 | Cassiopeia | Your E-Q-poison rotation starts out-trading his low mobility once levels let you weave the full combo |
| Level 3 | Cassiopeia | Extended trades keep favoring you as his kit has no scaling answer to sustained poison DPS |
| Levels 4-5 | Cassiopeia | You're fully ahead in raw trade math by now as long as you dodge his skillshot root |
| Level 6 | Malzahar | Malzahar's suppress-burst combo can delete you outright if Void lands right as he hits 6 |
| First item | Cassiopeia | Rylai's lets you dodge and punish him once his all-in is spent, tipping it back your way |
| Two+ items | Cassiopeia | Your sustained late-fight DPS crushes his one-note burst kit with nothing left after the combo |
Level 1-2 is close to even — Malzahar's Malefic Visions passive chips your HP through minions and Call of the Void threatens a landed root, but he has no way to all-in you yet without ult. Once you hit level 3 and can weave E into your Q-poison rotation, you start out-trading him in extended exchanges since he has zero mobility to escape your DoT once it's ticking. By level 5 you should be comfortably ahead in the trade math as long as you respect Void's range.
The full Cassiopeia vs Malzahar report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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