Nami with Malzahar
How to Synergize Nami and Malzahar
based on 3,166 Nami with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Malzahar Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Nami Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Nami and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Nami with Malzahar
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Nami in LoL
The Nami Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Nami perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is an ally to Malzahar, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Malzahar on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Nami in team fights.
Synergies between Nami and Malzahar
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Nami better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top companion for Nami that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a good teammate for Nami. By playing on the same team as Nami, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 51.0%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Nami and Malzahar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players should be careful when enlisting Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nami and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nami
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Nami Players
How We Calculated Our Nami Malzahar Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami to synergize with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Nami and Malzahar synergy build consist of Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Moonstone Renewer. When Nami used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 51.0% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Nami players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
If you would like to get Nami with Malzahar collaboration tips and builds for a a distinct skill level, please select one from the selection menu shown above. By default, the statistics and strategies shown are calculated using all matches completed with both champions.