Malzahar with Corki
How to Synergize Malzahar and Corki
based on 238 Malzahar with Corki pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Corki Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Corki Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Corki
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Corki
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 Corki Will Play
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
Malzahar Corki Synergy Stats
How to Play with Corki as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Corki synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Corki, 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 Corki. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Corki helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Corki, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This change could signal that Corki does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Corki on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Corki.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Corki on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Corki does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Corki
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Corki?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Corki is a very bad companion for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -6.8% to 43.7%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Malzahar and Corki that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Corki has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Corki teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Malzahar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Malzahar and Corki together, you may not be giving your team enough cover. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Corki ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to work well with Corki during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Malzahar and Corki synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Corki than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 43.7% when playing alongside Corki with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Malzahar and Corki pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.7% winrate overall.
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