Malzahar with Yuumi
How to Synergize Malzahar and Yuumi
based on 2,692 Malzahar with Yuumi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Yuumi Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Yuumi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Yuumi
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Yuumi
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.
Malzahar Yuumi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yuumi as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Yuumi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yuumi, 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 Yuumi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yuumi helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Yuumi, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Yuumi does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Yuumi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yuumi.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Yuumi on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Yuumi does a decent job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Yuumi?
There is no one best companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Yuumi is a very bad teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -7.1% to 43.4%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Malzahar and Yuumi that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Yuumi has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Yuumi teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Yuumi together, you may not be providing your other allies enough engage potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Yuumi teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar to synergize with Yuumi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Yuumi synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Yuumi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 43.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yuumi with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Malzahar players 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.4% win rate overall.
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