Alistar with Malzahar
How to Synergize Alistar and Malzahar
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Alistar Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Malzahar
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Malzahar on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 49.7%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Alistar and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Alistar and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your other allies enough sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Alistar to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Alistar and Malzahar synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Alistar and Malzahar pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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