Malzahar with Poppy
How to Synergize Malzahar and Poppy
based on 1,885 Malzahar with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Malzahar Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Poppy helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Poppy, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Poppy helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Poppy on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Poppy does a poor job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Poppy
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no top synergy for Malzahar that will always be his top teammate. However, Poppy is a not very good ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, she lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Malzahar and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Poppy allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Poppy together, you may not be providing your side very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to work well with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Malzahar and Poppy synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Poppy than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Malzahar and Poppy pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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