Malzahar with Master Yi
How to Synergize Malzahar and Master Yi
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Malzahar Master Yi Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Malzahar Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Master Yi helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Master Yi, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Master Yi doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Master Yi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Master Yi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Master Yi.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Master Yi on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Malzahar in team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no one best ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Master Yi is a good teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 51.6%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Malzahar and Master Yi that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Master Yi has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Master Yi comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malzahar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Master Yi together, you will not be giving your other allies very much tankyness. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Master Yi ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 to synergize with Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Malzahar and Master Yi synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Master Yi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Master Yi with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Malzahar and Master Yi pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Master Yi with Malzahar are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.