Blitzcrank with Malzahar
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Malzahar
based on 4,616 Blitzcrank with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Blitzcrank Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Malzahar
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Blitzcrank perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Blitzcrank plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Blitzcrank during team fights.
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top champion pairing for Blitzcrank that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Blitzcrank. By playing on the same team as Blitzcrank, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 52.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Blitzcrank and Malzahar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Blitzcrank. That means Blitzcrank players should be careful when finding Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Blitzcrank players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Blitzcrank and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Blitzcrank to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Blitzcrank and Malzahar synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Blitzcrank combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Blitzcrank and Malzahar pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.1% winrate overall.
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