Naafiri with Malzahar
How to Synergize Naafiri and Malzahar
based on 546 Naafiri with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Naafiri Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Malzahar
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Advice to Understand How Malzahar Will Play
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.
Naafiri Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps Naafiri perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is paired with Malzahar, they gets a small decrease in their complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Malzahar does not support by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Malzahar on the same side, they usually takes more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Naafiri during teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Naafiri that will no matter what be their ideal ally. However, Malzahar is a very bad ally for Naafiri. By being on the same team as Naafiri, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 47.1%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Naafiri and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be careful when arranging Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Naafiri players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Naafiri and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your team much tankyness. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Naafiri and Malzahar synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three great items in their build, they performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 47.1% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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