Leona with Malzahar
How to Synergize Leona and Malzahar
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Leona Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Leona with Malzahar
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Leona perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona tries to synergize with Malzahar, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Malzahar supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Malzahar on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal ally for Leona that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Malzahar is a pretty good companion for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 53.3%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Leona and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players should be very careful when finding Malzahar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Leona and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your team very much AD. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Leona and Malzahar synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 53.3% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.3% winrate overall.
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