Malzahar with Darius
How to Synergize Malzahar and Darius
based on 4,171 Malzahar with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Darius Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Darius
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Malzahar Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Darius helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Darius, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Darius provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Darius.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Darius on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Darius does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Darius?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Darius is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Darius that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Darius comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Malzahar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malzahar and Darius together, you may not be providing your side very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Darius ally's skill level, 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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar to synergize with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Malzahar and Darius synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Darius than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Darius with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Malzahar players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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