Zyra with Malzahar
How to Synergize Zyra and Malzahar
based on 4,847 Zyra with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zyra Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Zyra vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zyra and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Zyra with Malzahar
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Zyra in LoL
The Zyra 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, Zyra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Zyra perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zyra is paired with Malzahar, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malzahar does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zyra is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Zyra plays with Malzahar on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Zyra in team fights.
Synergies between Zyra and Malzahar
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Is Zyra better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Zyra that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Malzahar is a pretty good ally for Zyra. By locking into the same side as Zyra, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 53.7%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Zyra and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Zyra. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zyra and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your side a lot of tankyness. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Zyra and Malzahar synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zyra included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average winrate of 53.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.7% winrate overall.
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