Malzahar with Anivia
How to Synergize Malzahar and Anivia
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Malzahar Anivia Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Anivia
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Anivia
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 Anivia Will Play
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Malzahar Anivia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Anivia as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 Anivia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Anivia helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Anivia, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Anivia does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Anivia 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 with Anivia.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Anivia on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Anivia does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Anivia
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Anivia?
There is no one best companion for Malzahar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Anivia is a below average teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -2.0% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Malzahar and Anivia that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Anivia has a much greater difficulty compared to Malzahar. That means Malzahar players need to be cautious when arranging Anivia comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Anivia together, you will not be providing your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Anivia synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Anivia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Anivia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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