Malzahar with Zilean
How to Synergize Malzahar and Zilean
based on 1,199 Malzahar with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Malzahar Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zilean helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Zilean, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zilean supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Zilean 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 Zilean.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Zilean on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Zilean is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Malzahar and Zilean that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Zilean comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Zilean together, you may not be giving your other allies very much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Malzahar and Zilean synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.4% helping carry Zilean with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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