Malzahar with Bard
How to Synergize Malzahar and Bard
based on 3,032 Malzahar with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Bard Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Bard
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Malzahar Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Bard, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Bard supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Bard on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Bard
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Bard is a decent ally for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 52.6%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Malzahar and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you must be careful when finding Bard comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Malzahar and Bard together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Malzahar and Bard synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Malzahar players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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