Malzahar with Ziggs
How to Synergize Malzahar and Ziggs
based on 902 Malzahar with Ziggs pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Ziggs Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Malzahar Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ziggs helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Ziggs, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Ziggs doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Ziggs on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Ziggs
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no perfect companion for Malzahar that will always be his best ally. Yet, Ziggs is a not very good ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Malzahar and Ziggs that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Ziggs comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malzahar and Ziggs together, you probably will not be granting your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar to work well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Malzahar and Ziggs synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Ziggs than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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