Malzahar with Nidalee
How to Synergize Malzahar and Nidalee
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Malzahar Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Malzahar Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Nidalee, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Nidalee does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Nidalee on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Nidalee
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no ideal synergy for Malzahar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Nidalee is a very bad companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -5.5% to 45.0%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Malzahar and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Nidalee teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Malzahar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough tankyness. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to synergize with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Malzahar and Nidalee synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 45.0% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Malzahar players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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