Illaoi with Malzahar
How to Synergize Illaoi and Malzahar
based on 2,373 Illaoi with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Malzahar
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Malzahar, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Malzahar does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Malzahar on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Illaoi during team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Malzahar
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect synergy for Illaoi that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Illaoi and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Illaoi players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Illaoi and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your side much protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Illaoi to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Illaoi and Malzahar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Illaoi players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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