Malzahar with Galio
How to Synergize Malzahar and Galio
based on 819 Malzahar with Galio pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Galio Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Galio
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Galio
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 Galio Will Play
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Malzahar Galio Synergy Stats
How to Play with Galio as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Galio. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Galio helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Galio, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Galio does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Galio on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Galio. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Galio.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Galio on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Galio does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Galio
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Galio?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Galio is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.5%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Galio that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Galio has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Galio allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Galio together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Galio ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 pair well with Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Malzahar and Galio synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Galio than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Galio with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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