Orianna with Malzahar
How to Synergize Orianna and Malzahar
based on 222 Orianna with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Orianna Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Malzahar
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Orianna perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna is paired with Malzahar, she gets a pretty big loss in her full damage output. This could indicate that Malzahar does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Malzahar on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Malzahar does a decent job of covering Orianna in teamfights.
Synergies between Orianna and Malzahar
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, Malzahar is a not very good ally for Orianna. By playing on the same team as Orianna, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 46.4%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Orianna and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players don't need to be careful when enlisting Malzahar allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Orianna players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Orianna and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 Orianna in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Orianna and Malzahar synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 46.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Orianna and Malzahar pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Orianna are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.