Malzahar with Yasuo
How to Synergize Malzahar and Yasuo
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Malzahar Yasuo Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Malzahar Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yasuo helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Yasuo, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Yasuo supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yasuo.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Yasuo on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Yasuo
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no top companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Yasuo is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 51.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Malzahar and Yasuo that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Malzahar. That means you should be cautious when arranging Yasuo comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Yasuo together, you may not be granting your other allies very much cover. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's skill level, 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 in order to work well with Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Malzahar and Yasuo synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Yasuo than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yasuo with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Malzahar and Yasuo pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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