Gnar with Malzahar
How to Synergize Gnar and Malzahar
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Gnar Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Malzahar
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar 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, Gnar 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 negative change shows that Malzahar helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Malzahar, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Malzahar does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside 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 with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Malzahar does a decent job of protecting Gnar during teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Malzahar is a good teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Gnar and Malzahar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gnar and Malzahar together, you may not be granting your team enough engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to synergize with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Gnar and Malzahar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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