Malzahar with Vi
How to Synergize Malzahar and Vi
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Malzahar Vi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Vi
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Malzahar Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vi helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Vi, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change may signal that Vi helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Vi 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 synergisticly with Vi.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Vi on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Vi does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best synergy for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Vi is a decent ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, she increases their win rate by 1.2% to 51.7%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Malzahar and Vi that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Vi has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Vi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Malzahar players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Vi together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Vi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Malzahar and Vi synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Vi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when playing alongside Vi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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