Malzahar with Gragas
How to Synergize Malzahar and Gragas
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Malzahar Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Malzahar Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gragas helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Gragas, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Gragas does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Gragas
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top synergy for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Gragas is a relatively poor ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Malzahar and Gragas that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Gragas teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Gragas together, you will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Malzahar and Gragas synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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