Xayah with Malzahar
How to Synergize Xayah and Malzahar
based on 1,893 Xayah with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xayah Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Malzahar
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Xayah perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah is paired with Malzahar, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This change may signal that Malzahar supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Xayah plays with Malzahar on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Xayah during team fights.
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best ally for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Xayah. By being on the same side as Xayah, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Xayah and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players should be careful when lining up Malzahar allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Xayah players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Xayah and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Xayah and Malzahar synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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