Malzahar with Alistar
How to Synergize Malzahar and Alistar
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Malzahar Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
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.
Malzahar Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Alistar, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Alistar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Alistar on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Alistar
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best companion for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 49.7%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you must be careful when finding Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malzahar and Alistar together, you probably will not be giving your side much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to synergize with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Malzahar and Alistar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Alistar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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