Aatrox with Malzahar
How to Synergize Aatrox and Malzahar
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Aatrox Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Malzahar
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
Aatrox Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox 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, Aatrox sees a large worsening 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 Aatrox perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Malzahar, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malzahar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Malzahar on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Aatrox during teamfights.
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal ally for Aatrox that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Aatrox. By playing on the same side as Aatrox, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Aatrox and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players need to be very careful when finding Malzahar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Aatrox players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Aatrox and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your other teammates much engage potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Aatrox in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Aatrox and Malzahar synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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