Zeri with Malzahar
How to Synergize Zeri and Malzahar
based on 1,121 Zeri with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zeri Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Zeri vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zeri and Malzahar
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.
Zeri Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Zeri in LoL
The Zeri Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zeri sees a very large drop in their 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 Zeri perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zeri plays on the same team as Malzahar, they gets a small increase in their complete damage output. This change could indicate that Malzahar helps provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zeri is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Zeri plays with Malzahar on the same side, they usually receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Zeri during teamfights.
Synergies between Zeri and Malzahar
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Is Zeri better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best synergy for Zeri that will always be their best synergy. Yet, Malzahar is a below average companion for Zeri. By being on the same side as Zeri, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 43.4%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Zeri and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Zeri. That means Zeri players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zeri players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zeri and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough engage potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zeri to work well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Zeri and Malzahar synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Experimental Hexplate, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Zeri incorporated at least these three great items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 43.4% helping carry Malzahar with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zeri and Malzahar pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.4% win rate overall.
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