Thresh with Malzahar
How to Synergize Thresh and Malzahar
based on 4,690 Thresh with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Malzahar
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Thresh perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is an ally to Malzahar, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Malzahar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Thresh in team fights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Thresh that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Thresh. By locking into the same team as Thresh, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Thresh and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when lining up Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Thresh and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Thresh and Malzahar synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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