Jax with Malzahar
How to Synergize Jax and Malzahar
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Jax Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Jax with Malzahar
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax sees a large worsening in his 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 Jax perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jax is paired with Malzahar, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Malzahar on the same team, 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 alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Jax during teamfights.
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Is Jax better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal companion for Jax that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Malzahar is a pretty good ally for Jax. By playing on the same side as Jax, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 52.1%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Jax and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players should be careful when finding Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Jax and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Jax and Malzahar synergy build include Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, and Trinity Force. When Jax incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 52.1% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Jax players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Jax and Malzahar pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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