Gwen with Malzahar
How to Synergize Gwen and Malzahar
based on 2,048 Gwen with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Malzahar
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Gwen perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen plays on the same team as Malzahar, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Malzahar provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Malzahar on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Gwen in teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Malzahar
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top ally for Gwen that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Gwen. By playing on the same team as Gwen, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 48.8%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Gwen and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players need to be very careful when finding Malzahar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gwen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gwen and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing 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 Gwen to work well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Gwen and Malzahar synergy build include Banshee's Veil, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gwen boasted an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Malzahar with Gwen are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.