Malzahar with Syndra
How to Synergize Malzahar and Syndra
based on 291 Malzahar with Syndra pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Syndra Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Syndra
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Syndra
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 Syndra Will Play
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Malzahar Syndra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Syndra as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Syndra helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Syndra, he observes a measurable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Syndra doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Syndra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Syndra. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Syndra.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Syndra on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Syndra does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Syndra
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Syndra?
There is no one best ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Syndra is a terrible teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -5.1% to 45.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Malzahar and Syndra that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Syndra has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you should be very careful when arranging Syndra allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Syndra together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Syndra ally, 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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to work well with Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Malzahar and Syndra synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Syndra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing alongside Syndra with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should take 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 chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.4% winrate overall.
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