Malzahar with Nasus
How to Synergize Malzahar and Nasus
based on 3,541 Malzahar with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Malzahar Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nasus helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Nasus, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Nasus helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Nasus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nasus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nasus.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Nasus on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nasus does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Nasus is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Malzahar and Nasus that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Nasus comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Malzahar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Nasus together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to synergize with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Nasus synergy build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Nasus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nasus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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