Yasuo with Malzahar
How to Synergize Yasuo and Malzahar
based on 3,115 Yasuo with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Yasuo Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Malzahar
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his 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 Yasuo perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played together with Malzahar on the same team, 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 Yasuo plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Yasuo in teamfights.
Synergies between Yasuo and Malzahar
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Yasuo that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Yasuo. By locking into the same team as Yasuo, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 51.3%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Yasuo and Malzahar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Malzahar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Yasuo players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Yasuo and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of engage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Yasuo in order to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Yasuo and Malzahar synergy build include Infinity Edge, Death's Dance, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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