Malzahar with Udyr
How to Synergize Malzahar and Udyr
based on 3,368 Malzahar with Udyr pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Udyr Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Udyr Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Udyr
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Udyr
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 Udyr Will Play
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
Malzahar Udyr Synergy Stats
How to Play with Udyr as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Udyr synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Udyr, 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 Udyr. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Udyr helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Udyr, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Udyr supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Udyr on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Udyr.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Udyr on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Udyr does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Udyr
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Udyr?
There is no perfect synergy for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Udyr is a below average teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Malzahar and Udyr that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Udyr has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players must be careful when finding Udyr allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Malzahar players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Udyr together, you will not be granting your other allies enough cover. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Udyr ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Udyr during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Malzahar and Udyr synergy build consist of Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Udyr than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Udyr with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use 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 that we analyzed for Malzahar and Udyr pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Udyr with Malzahar are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.