Malzahar with Lissandra
How to Synergize Malzahar and Lissandra
based on 268 Malzahar with Lissandra pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Lissandra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Lissandra
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 Lissandra Will Play
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).
Malzahar Lissandra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lissandra as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lissandra. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lissandra helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Lissandra, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Lissandra does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Lissandra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lissandra.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Lissandra on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Lissandra does a poor job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Lissandra?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Lissandra is a terrible ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -5.7% to 44.8%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Lissandra that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Lissandra has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Lissandra teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Lissandra together, you may not be providing your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Lissandra ally, you need to focus on maximizing your 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 truly master Malzahar in order to work well with Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Malzahar and Lissandra synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Lissandra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 44.8% helping carry Lissandra with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.8% winrate overall.
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