Garen with Malzahar
How to Synergize Garen and Malzahar
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Garen Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Garen with Malzahar
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen 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 negative change shows that Malzahar helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen tries to synergize with Malzahar, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Malzahar provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Malzahar on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Garen during teamfights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top ally for Garen that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 49.6%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Garen and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players need to be very careful when lining up Malzahar allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Garen and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much support. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Garen and Malzahar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.6% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Garen players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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