Aphelios with Malzahar
How to Synergize Aphelios and Malzahar
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Aphelios Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Malzahar
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Malzahar, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Malzahar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Malzahar on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Malzahar
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Aphelios that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Aphelios and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Aphelios and Malzahar together, you may not be granting your other teammates much cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Aphelios and Malzahar synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Aphelios bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Aphelios players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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