Ziggs with Malzahar
How to Synergize Ziggs and Malzahar
based on 902 Ziggs with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ziggs Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Early Items
Core Ziggs Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Malzahar
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Ziggs perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ziggs plays on the same team as Malzahar, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Malzahar doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Ziggs plays with Malzahar on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Malzahar does a decent job of covering Ziggs during teamfights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Malzahar
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Ziggs that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Ziggs. By locking into the same side as Ziggs, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Ziggs and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Ziggs. That means you must be careful when finding Malzahar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Ziggs players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Ziggs and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your team a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Ziggs and Malzahar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ziggs and Malzahar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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