Lissandra with Malzahar
How to Synergize Lissandra and Malzahar
based on 268 Lissandra with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lissandra Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lissandra and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Lissandra with Malzahar
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Lissandra in LoL
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Lissandra perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is paired with Malzahar, she gets a pretty big loss in her total damage output. This could signal that Malzahar does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Malzahar on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
Synergies between Lissandra and Malzahar
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Is Lissandra better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal synergy for Lissandra that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Malzahar is a terrible teammate for Lissandra. By locking into the same side as Lissandra, he lowers their win rate by -4.7% to 44.8%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Lissandra and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Malzahar allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Lissandra players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Lissandra and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your other allies very much attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Lissandra to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Lissandra and Malzahar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 44.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.8% win rate overall.
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