Veigar with Malzahar
How to Synergize Veigar and Malzahar
based on 1,090 Veigar with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Malzahar
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Veigar perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Malzahar, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Malzahar doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Veigar plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Veigar in team fights.
Synergies between Veigar and Malzahar
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Veigar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Malzahar is a relatively poor ally for Veigar. By being on the same team as Veigar, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 47.3%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Veigar and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Veigar and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Veigar and Malzahar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Veigar combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Veigar boasted an average win rate of 47.3% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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