Vel'Koz with Malzahar
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Malzahar
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Vel'Koz Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Malzahar
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz 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, Vel'Koz sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Malzahar, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Malzahar doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Vel'Koz plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Vel'Koz in teamfights.
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By being on the same team as Vel'Koz, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 50.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Vel'Koz and Malzahar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Malzahar allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Vel'Koz and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vel'Koz to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz and Malzahar synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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