Malzahar with Maokai
How to Synergize Malzahar and Maokai
based on 4,692 Malzahar with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Maokai Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Malzahar Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Malzahar Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Maokai, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Maokai on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Maokai
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Malzahar better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no perfect synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Maokai is a pretty good teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 52.6%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Malzahar and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Malzahar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Maokai together, you will not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai 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 should do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Malzahar
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Malzahar Players
How We Calculated Our Malzahar Maokai Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Maokai synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Cryptbloom. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 52.6% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should equip 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 used for Malzahar and Maokai pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
If you want to view Malzahar with Maokai cooperations tips and builds for a a particular rank, please select one from the selection menu provided above. At first, the stats and build suggestions given are calculated using all rounds finished with both champions.