Syndra with Malzahar
How to Synergize Syndra and Malzahar
based on 291 Syndra with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Syndra Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Syndra vs Malzahar Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Syndra Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Syndra and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Syndra with Malzahar
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Syndra in LoL
The Syndra 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, Syndra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Syndra perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Syndra plays on the same team as Malzahar, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malzahar doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Syndra is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Syndra plays with Malzahar on the same team, she usually receives more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Syndra in team fights.
Synergies between Syndra and Malzahar
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Syndra better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top champion pairing for Syndra that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Malzahar is a very bad teammate for Syndra. By being on the same team as Syndra, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 45.4%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Syndra and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Syndra. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Syndra and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Syndra
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Syndra Players
How We Calculated Our Syndra Malzahar Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Syndra in order to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Syndra and Malzahar synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 45.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Syndra players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Syndra are shown for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located above.