Tristana with Malzahar
How to Synergize Tristana and Malzahar
based on 3,528 Tristana with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tristana Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Malzahar
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana 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 worsening shows that Malzahar helps Tristana perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana plays on the same team as Malzahar, she sees a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Malzahar does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Malzahar on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Tristana during team fights.
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal ally for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Malzahar is a below average ally for Tristana. By locking into the same side as Tristana, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.7%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Tristana and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Tristana. That means Tristana players must be very careful when finding Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Tristana players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Tristana and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Tristana and Malzahar synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Tristana are given for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.