Malzahar with Ryze
How to Synergize Malzahar and Ryze
based on 252 Malzahar with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Ryze
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 Ryze Will Play
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Malzahar Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ryze helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Ryze, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Ryze does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ryze.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Ryze on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Ryze does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Ryze
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no top companion for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Ryze is a very bad companion for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -5.3% to 45.2%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Malzahar and Ryze that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you need to be careful when lining up Ryze allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Malzahar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Ryze together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Ryze ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Malzahar and Ryze synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Ryze than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 45.2% helping carry Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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