Heimerdinger with Malzahar
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Malzahar
based on 1,231 Heimerdinger with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Heimerdinger Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Core Heimerdinger Items
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Malzahar
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Malzahar, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Malzahar
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a below average teammate for Heimerdinger. By playing on the same team as Heimerdinger, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 48.3%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Heimerdinger and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be cautious when arranging Malzahar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Heimerdinger players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Heimerdinger and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your other allies enough attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Heimerdinger and Malzahar synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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