Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
The Azir 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, Azir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Azir perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Azir is paired with Malzahar, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Malzahar does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Azir 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 Azir plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Azir during teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Azir that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Malzahar is a very bad companion for Azir. By locking into the same team as Azir, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Azir and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than Azir. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Azir players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Azir and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Azir and Malzahar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Azir players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Azir and Malzahar pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Malzahar with Azir are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.