Zoe with Malzahar
How to Synergize Zoe and Malzahar
based on 355 Zoe with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zoe Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Zoe vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zoe and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Zoe with Malzahar
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Zoe in LoL
The Zoe 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, Zoe 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 decrease shows that Malzahar helps Zoe perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zoe is paired with Malzahar, she sees a moderate decrease in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Malzahar doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Zoe plays with Malzahar on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Zoe during teamfights.
Synergies between Zoe and Malzahar
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Is Zoe better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zoe that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Zoe. By locking into the same side as Zoe, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 46.2%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Zoe and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Zoe. That means you must be careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zoe and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zoe in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Zoe and Malzahar synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zoe had an average win rate of 46.2% helping carry Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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