Malzahar with Irelia
How to Synergize Malzahar and Irelia
based on 1,775 Malzahar with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
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.
Malzahar Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Irelia, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Irelia on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Irelia
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Irelia is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, she improves their win rate by 0.1% to 50.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Malzahar and Irelia that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to pair well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Malzahar and Irelia synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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