Darius with Malzahar
How to Synergize Darius and Malzahar
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Darius Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Darius with Malzahar
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Darius perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius plays on the same team as Malzahar, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Malzahar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Darius during teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Darius that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Malzahar is a pretty good companion for Darius. By playing on the same side as Darius, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 50.5%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Darius and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Malzahar has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means you should be cautious when finding Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Darius players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Darius and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your other teammates much protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Darius and Malzahar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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