Malzahar with Tristana
How to Synergize Malzahar and Tristana
based on 3,528 Malzahar with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Tristana Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Malzahar Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tristana helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Tristana, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Tristana does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tristana.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Tristana on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Tristana does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Tristana
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no one best companion for Malzahar that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Tristana is a below average teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -2.8% to 47.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Malzahar and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when lining up Tristana allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Tristana together, you will not be granting your team enough cover. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 pair well with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Malzahar and Tristana synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Tristana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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