Malzahar with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Malzahar and Vel'Koz
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Malzahar Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Malzahar Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Vel'Koz, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Vel'Koz doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 50.9%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Malzahar and Vel'Koz that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be cautious when arranging Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar to synergize with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Malzahar and Vel'Koz synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Malzahar and Vel'Koz pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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