Zed with Malzahar
How to Synergize Zed and Malzahar
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Zed Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Zed with Malzahar
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Zed perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Malzahar on the same team, he typically takes much more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal synergy for Zed that will always be his best ally. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.0%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Zed and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when finding Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Zed and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your other allies much engage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 truly master Zed to work well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Zed and Malzahar synergy build include Edge of Night, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Zed and Malzahar pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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