Nasus with Malzahar
How to Synergize Nasus and Malzahar
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Nasus Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Malzahar
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nasus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Nasus perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Malzahar on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Nasus during teamfights.
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Nasus that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Nasus. By locking into the same side as Nasus, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 50.9%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Nasus and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Nasus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nasus and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your other teammates much engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Nasus and Malzahar synergy build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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