Graves with Malzahar
How to Synergize Graves and Malzahar
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Graves Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Graves with Malzahar
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves 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 drop shows that Malzahar helps Graves perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Malzahar, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together 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 alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Graves and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Graves and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your side very much tankyness. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Graves and Malzahar synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Graves players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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