Malzahar with Amumu
How to Synergize Malzahar and Amumu
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Malzahar Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Amumu
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.
Advice to Understand How Amumu Will Play
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Malzahar Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Amumu, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Amumu supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Amumu.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Amumu on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Amumu does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Amumu
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Malzahar that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Amumu is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.5%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Malzahar and Amumu that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Amumu allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Amumu together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Malzahar in order to pair well with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Amumu synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Amumu than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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