Akali with Malzahar
How to Synergize Akali and Malzahar
based on 1,357 Akali with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Akali with Malzahar
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Malzahar Will Play
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.
Akali Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Akali in LoL
The Akali Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is paired with Malzahar, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Malzahar provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Malzahar on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Akali that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Malzahar is a not very good ally for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Akali and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Akali and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your other teammates much engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Akali and Malzahar synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Akali and Malzahar pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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