Malzahar with Diana
How to Synergize Malzahar and Diana
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Malzahar Diana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Diana
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Diana
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 Diana Will Play
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
Malzahar Diana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Diana as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Diana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Diana, 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 Diana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Diana helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Diana, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Diana does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Diana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Diana.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Diana on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Diana does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Diana?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Diana is a below average companion for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -2.7% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Malzahar and Diana that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Diana has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Diana allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Diana together, you may not be giving your other allies enough engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Diana ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to synergize with Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Malzahar and Diana synergy build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Diana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 47.8% when playing alongside Diana with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Malzahar players should take 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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