Vi with Malzahar
How to Synergize Vi and Malzahar
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Vi Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Vi with Malzahar
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Vi perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi is an ally to Malzahar, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Malzahar provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Malzahar on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Vi in teamfights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Vi that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Vi. By playing on the same side as Vi, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 51.7%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Vi and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Vi. That means Vi players should be careful when arranging Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Vi players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Vi and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Vi to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Vi and Malzahar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance. When Vi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other common builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
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