Vel'Koz with Malzahar
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Malzahar
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Vel'Koz Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz Malzahar Synergy Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Malzahar
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
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.
Vel'Koz Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz 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, Vel'Koz sees a large worsening in his 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 Vel'Koz perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Malzahar, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could signal that Malzahar doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together 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 Vel'Koz plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Malzahar does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal companion for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Malzahar is a good ally for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 52.7%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Vel'Koz and Malzahar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means Vel'Koz players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Vel'Koz and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz and Malzahar synergy build consist of Luden's Tempest, Morellonomicon, and Shard of True Ice. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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