Malzahar with Olaf
How to Synergize Malzahar and Olaf
based on 1,102 Malzahar with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Malzahar Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Olaf helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Olaf, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Olaf does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Olaf on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Olaf
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no top companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Olaf is a relatively poor ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Malzahar and Olaf that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when arranging Olaf teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malzahar and Olaf together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 pair well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Olaf synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Malzahar and Olaf pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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