Malzahar with Neeko
How to Synergize Malzahar and Neeko
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Malzahar Neeko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Malzahar Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Neeko helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Neeko, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Neeko provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Neeko 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 alongside Neeko.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Neeko on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Neeko does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Neeko
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no ideal synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Neeko is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 51.0%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Neeko that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Neeko has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Neeko comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Malzahar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Neeko together, you may not be granting your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Neeko ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 work well with Neeko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Malzahar and Neeko synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Neeko than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 51.0% helping carry Neeko with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Malzahar players should equip 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 players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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