Malzahar with Thresh
How to Synergize Malzahar and Thresh
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Malzahar Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Malzahar Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Thresh helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Thresh, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Thresh doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Thresh on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Thresh is a relatively poor ally for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 48.0%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Malzahar and Thresh that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be careful when lining up Thresh comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Malzahar players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Thresh together, you will not be providing your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Thresh synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Void Staff. When Malzahar used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Thresh than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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