Malzahar with Xayah
How to Synergize Malzahar and Xayah
based on 1,893 Malzahar with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Malzahar Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xayah helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Xayah, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Xayah supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xayah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xayah.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Xayah on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Xayah does a poor job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no top companion for Malzahar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Xayah is a terrible companion for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -3.5% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Malzahar and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Xayah comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malzahar and Xayah together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much tankyness. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your 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 learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to work well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Xayah synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Xayah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Xayah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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