Taliyah with Malzahar
How to Synergize Taliyah and Malzahar
based on 494 Taliyah with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Taliyah vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Malzahar
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah 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, Taliyah 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 negative change shows that Malzahar helps Taliyah perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah is paired with Malzahar, she observes a little drop in her complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Malzahar does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Taliyah plays with Malzahar on the same side, she typically takes more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Taliyah in team fights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Malzahar
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Taliyah that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a relatively poor teammate for Taliyah. By playing on the same side as Taliyah, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Taliyah and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Taliyah. That means you should be cautious when arranging Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Taliyah players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Taliyah and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your other allies much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Taliyah and Malzahar synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average winrate of 47.0% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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