Malzahar with Aphelios
How to Synergize Malzahar and Aphelios
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Malzahar Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Malzahar Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Aphelios, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Aphelios does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Aphelios on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Aphelios
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal companion for Malzahar that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 49.5%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Malzahar. That means Malzahar players need to be very careful when arranging Aphelios teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Malzahar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your side enough engage potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should 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 Malzahar to work well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Malzahar and Aphelios synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Void Staff. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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