Xerath with Malzahar
How to Synergize Xerath and Malzahar
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Xerath Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Malzahar
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Xerath perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath tries to synergize with Malzahar, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Malzahar does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Xerath during team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Malzahar
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal synergy for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Xerath. By playing on the same team as Xerath, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 51.1%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Xerath and Malzahar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Xerath and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xerath in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Xerath and Malzahar synergy build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other common builds. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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