Malzahar with Orianna
How to Synergize Malzahar and Orianna
based on 222 Malzahar with Orianna pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Malzahar Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Orianna, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Orianna does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Orianna.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Orianna on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Orianna does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Orianna
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no one best ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Orianna is a very bad companion for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 46.4%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Malzahar and Orianna that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you should be cautious when arranging Orianna comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Orianna together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to work well with Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Malzahar and Orianna synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Orianna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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