Annie with Malzahar
How to Synergize Annie and Malzahar
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Annie Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Annie with Malzahar
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie 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 drop shows that Malzahar helps Annie perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie plays on the same team as Malzahar, she observes a noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Malzahar doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Malzahar on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top ally for Annie that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Malzahar is a terrible teammate for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -5.0% to 44.3%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Annie and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when arranging Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Annie players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Annie and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your team much attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Annie and Malzahar synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 44.3% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.3% win rate overall.
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