Ryze with Malzahar
How to Synergize Ryze and Malzahar
based on 252 Ryze with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Malzahar
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze 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, Ryze sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Ryze perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ryze tries to synergize with Malzahar, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Ryze during teamfights.
Synergies between Ryze and Malzahar
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Ryze that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Malzahar is a terrible ally for Ryze. By locking into the same side as Ryze, he lowers their win rate by -3.8% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Ryze and Malzahar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Ryze and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Ryze to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Ryze and Malzahar synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 45.2% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Ryze and Malzahar pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.2% winrate overall.
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