Malzahar with Akali
How to Synergize Malzahar and Akali
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Malzahar Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Akali
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Malzahar Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Akali, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Akali does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Akali on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Akali
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top ally for Malzahar that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Akali is a terrible companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -3.3% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Malzahar and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you need to be careful when finding Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Malzahar and Akali together, you probably will not be granting your team much cover. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Malzahar and Akali synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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