Malzahar with Zeri
How to Synergize Malzahar and Zeri
based on 1,121 Malzahar with Zeri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Zeri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Zeri
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Zeri
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 Zeri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zeri as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zeri helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Zeri, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Zeri does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Zeri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zeri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zeri.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Zeri on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zeri does a poor job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Zeri?
There is no one best ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Zeri is a terrible teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, they drops their win rate by -7.1% to 43.4%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Malzahar and Zeri that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zeri has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zeri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Zeri together, you may not be providing your other allies very much cover. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Zeri ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Malzahar and Zeri synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Zeri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 43.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zeri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing 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 used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.4% win rate overall.
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