Malzahar with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Malzahar and Heimerdinger
based on 1,231 Malzahar with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
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.
Malzahar Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Heimerdinger helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Heimerdinger, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Heimerdinger does not support by providing 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 together with Heimerdinger 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 with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Heimerdinger
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no top champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Heimerdinger is a not very good teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Malzahar and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Heimerdinger comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Heimerdinger together, you will not be granting your team enough AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Malzahar to work well with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Malzahar and Heimerdinger synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Heimerdinger than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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