Malzahar with Samira
How to Synergize Malzahar and Samira
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Malzahar Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Samira
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Samira
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.
Malzahar Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Samira helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Samira, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Samira does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Samira on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Samira.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Samira on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Samira does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Samira?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Samira is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.2%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Malzahar and Samira that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Samira has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when finding Samira allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Malzahar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Malzahar and Samira together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Samira ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to synergize with Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Malzahar and Samira synergy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Samira than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Malzahar and Samira pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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