Malzahar with Naafiri
How to Synergize Malzahar and Naafiri
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Malzahar Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Malzahar Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Naafiri helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Naafiri, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Naafiri does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Naafiri 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 synergisticly with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Naafiri on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no ideal ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Naafiri is a very bad ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, they decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 47.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Malzahar and Naafiri that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Naafiri comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malzahar and Naafiri together, you will not be granting your team a lot of tankyness. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 pair well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Malzahar and Naafiri synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Naafiri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 47.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Malzahar and Naafiri pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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