Nidalee with Malzahar
How to Synergize Nidalee and Malzahar
based on 749 Nidalee with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Malzahar
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nidalee sees a large worsening in her 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 Nidalee perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee is paired with Malzahar, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Malzahar does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Malzahar on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Nidalee in teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Malzahar
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal synergy for Nidalee that will always be her best ally. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 45.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Nidalee and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be cautious when lining up Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nidalee and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your side much engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Nidalee and Malzahar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 45.0% helping carry Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.0% win rate overall.
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