Irelia with Malzahar
How to Synergize Irelia and Malzahar
based on 1,775 Irelia with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Malzahar
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia 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 fall shows that Malzahar helps Irelia perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is an ally to Malzahar, she sees a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Malzahar provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with 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 synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Malzahar on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Irelia during teamfights.
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Irelia and Malzahar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you need to be very careful when finding Malzahar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Irelia and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Irelia to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Irelia and Malzahar synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 50.6% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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