Malzahar with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Malzahar and Xin Zhao
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Malzahar Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Malzahar Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Xin Zhao, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a pretty good ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he increases their win rate by 1.7% to 52.2%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Malzahar and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Xin Zhao allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Malzahar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Xin Zhao together, you will not be providing your team much tankyness. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Malzahar and Xin Zhao synergy build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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