Zac with Malzahar
How to Synergize Zac and Malzahar
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Zac Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Zac with Malzahar
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac sees a large worsening in his 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 Zac perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac is an ally to Malzahar, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Malzahar on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Zac during teamfights.
Synergies between Zac and Malzahar
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Is Zac better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zac that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Malzahar is a not very good companion for Zac. By locking into the same side as Zac, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Zac and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Zac. That means Zac players don't need to be careful when finding Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Zac and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zac in order to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Zac and Malzahar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Malzahar with Zac are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.