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Xayah with Malzahar

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How to Synergize Xayah and Malzahar

based on 1,893 Xayah with Malzahar pairs
Win Rate
47 %
K/D/A
2.14
Pick Rate
3.2 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers pull the stats from from millions of LoL rounds directly from Riot Games each and every week. Xayah has gone into battle with Malzahar in 1893 recent, competitive games. By accumulating so much accurate data straight from the hosts of League, we have complete confidence that we can showcase high quality, insightful builds to help Xayah synergize with Malzahar. It is relatively rare for Xayah to play alongside Malzahar as allies. This has only happened in about 3.2% of rounds with Xayah.

Xayah Malzahar Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Xayah has done a below average job of teaming up with Malzahar. Normally, she wins a lowly 47.0% of matches the champs fight together on the same side. If you want to do better as Xayah when fighting on the same team as Malzahar by figuring out how to better synergize your play style with him, then look into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Xayah vs Malzahar Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Recurve BowNoonquiver

Core Xayah Items

~22 Mins
BloodthirsterKraken SlayerNavori Quickblades

Optional Items

Infinity EdgeLord Dominik's RegardsPhantom DancerRapid Firecannon

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerheal summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Xayah to level upe
>
Second ability for Xayah to level upw
>
Last skill for Xayah to max outq

Runes

PrecisionLethal TempoPresence of MindLegend: BloodlineCoup de Grace
InspirationMagical FootwearBiscuit Delivery
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Xayah's passive ability p
Xayah's q ability q
Xayah's w ability w
Xayah's e ability e
Xayah's ultimate ability r
1
Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
7
E
8
W
9
E
10
W
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R
12
W
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W
14
Q
15
Q
16
R

Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Malzahar

Tips for Playing as Xayah with Malzahar

Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.

Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.

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.

Xayah Malzahar Synergy Stats

Xayah Image
Win Rate
47 %
VS
Win Rate
53 %
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6.8
< Kills >
6.4
6.3
< Deaths >
6.1
6.7
< Assists >
6.6
1.57
< Killing Sprees >
1.49
181
< Minions Killed >
181
0.3
< Dragons Killed >
0.29
0.53
< Inhibitors >
0.5
20,504
< Physical Damage >
19,629
389
< Magic Damage >
381
385
< True Damage >
383
21,277
< Damage Dealt >
20,394
21,089
< Damage Taken >
20,546
12,186
< Gold Earned >
11,987
2.3
< Towers >
2.33
0.1
< Baron Takedowns >
0.1
4,963
< Total Healing >
4,812
13,012
< Experience >
12,760
19
< Vision Score >
18
9
< Wards Placed >
9
55
< Time Dealing CC >
55

How to Play with Malzahar as Xayah in LoL

The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a very large drop in her 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 Xayah perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Xayah is paired with Malzahar, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This change may signal that Malzahar supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.

Additionally, when Xayah plays with Malzahar on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Xayah during team fights.

Synergies between Xayah and Malzahar

Damage Types Compared

Xayah
Malzahar
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Xayah
Malzahar

Is Xayah better when played alongside Malzahar?

There is no one best ally for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Xayah. By being on the same side as Xayah, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Xayah and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.

Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players should be careful when lining up Malzahar allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.

When playing alongside, Xayah players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.

Although, by aligning Xayah and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.

Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.

Additional Information for Xayah Players

How We Calculated Our Xayah Malzahar Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Xayah and Malzahar, we analyzed 1,893 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Xayah with Malzahar comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.

The best finished items to prioritize in your Xayah and Malzahar synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in her kit.

To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.

By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Xayah are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.