Malzahar with Ahri
How to Synergize Malzahar and Ahri
based on 403 Malzahar with Ahri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Ahri Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Malzahar Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ahri helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Ahri, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Ahri does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Ahri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ahri.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Ahri on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Ahri does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Ahri
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Ahri is a terrible companion for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -7.1% to 43.4%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Malzahar and Ahri that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Ahri has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Ahri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Ahri together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to pair well with Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Ahri synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Ahri than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 43.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.4% winrate overall.
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