Qiyana with Malzahar
How to Synergize Qiyana and Malzahar
based on 310 Qiyana with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Qiyana Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Qiyana vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Qiyana and Malzahar
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.
Qiyana Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Qiyana in LoL
The Qiyana 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, Qiyana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Qiyana perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Qiyana plays on the same team as Malzahar, she gets a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Malzahar does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Qiyana is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Qiyana plays with Malzahar on the same side, she usually takes significantly more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Qiyana in team fights.
Synergies between Qiyana and Malzahar
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Is Qiyana better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best companion for Qiyana that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very bad companion for Qiyana. By being on the same team as Qiyana, he decreases their win rate by -4.3% to 43.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Qiyana and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Qiyana. That means Qiyana players don't need to be cautious when lining up Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Qiyana players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Qiyana and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Qiyana to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Qiyana and Malzahar synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Qiyana incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Qiyana had an average winrate of 43.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Qiyana players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.5% winrate overall.
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