Malzahar with Nami
How to Synergize Malzahar and Nami
based on 3,166 Malzahar with Nami pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Nami Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Nami
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Malzahar Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Nami, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Nami helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Nami 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 synergisticly with Nami.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Nami on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nami does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Nami
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Nami?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Nami is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Malzahar and Nami that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Nami comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Malzahar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Malzahar and Nami together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of tankyness. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to work well with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Nami synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nami than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Nami with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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