Gragas with Malzahar
How to Synergize Gragas and Malzahar
based on 1,277 Gragas with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Malzahar
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas 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 decrease shows that Malzahar helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This could signal that Malzahar does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Gragas during team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Malzahar
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Gragas that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 47.6%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Gragas and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you should be careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Gragas and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Gragas and Malzahar synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Gragas and Malzahar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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