Maokai with Malzahar
How to Synergize Maokai and Malzahar
based on 4,692 Maokai with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Maokai Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Malzahar
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Advice to Understand How Malzahar Will Play
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.
Maokai Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Maokai sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps Maokai perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Malzahar, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Maokai during team fights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same team as Maokai, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 52.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Malzahar that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means Maokai players must be careful when arranging Malzahar allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Maokai and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your team enough attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 Maokai to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Maokai and Malzahar synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.6% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Maokai and Malzahar pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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