Malzahar with Zed
How to Synergize Malzahar and Zed
based on 924 Malzahar with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Zed Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Zed
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Malzahar Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Zed, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Zed helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Zed
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Zed is a below average teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Malzahar and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be careful when arranging Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Zed together, you will not be providing your team much engage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Malzahar and Zed synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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 rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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