Malzahar with Annie
How to Synergize Malzahar and Annie
based on 438 Malzahar with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Annie
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Malzahar Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Annie helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Annie, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This could indicate that Annie does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Annie on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Annie does a poor job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Annie
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Annie?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Annie is a terrible teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, she lowers their win rate by -6.2% to 44.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Malzahar and Annie that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Annie allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Malzahar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malzahar and Annie together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Malzahar to synergize with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Malzahar and Annie synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Annie than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 44.3% helping carry Annie with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
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