Poppy with Malzahar
How to Synergize Poppy and Malzahar
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Poppy Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Malzahar
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Malzahar, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This may indicate that Malzahar does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Malzahar on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Poppy in team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Malzahar
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Poppy that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Malzahar is a relatively poor ally for Poppy. By playing on the same team as Poppy, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 48.3%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Poppy and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Poppy players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by bringing Poppy and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Poppy to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Poppy and Malzahar synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Poppy players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Poppy and Malzahar pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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