Soraka with Malzahar
How to Synergize Soraka and Malzahar
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Soraka Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Malzahar
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps Soraka perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Soraka is paired with Malzahar, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This could signal that Malzahar supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Soraka plays with Malzahar on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Soraka during team fights.
Synergies between Soraka and Malzahar
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Is Soraka better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Soraka that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Soraka. By being on the same side as Soraka, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 48.8%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Soraka and Malzahar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Soraka. That means you should be cautious when lining up Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Soraka players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Soraka and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your team enough sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Soraka to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Soraka and Malzahar synergy build include Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Soraka had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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