Malzahar with Graves
How to Synergize Malzahar and Graves
based on 5,171 Malzahar with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Graves Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Graves
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Malzahar Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Graves, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Graves does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Graves on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Graves does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Graves is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Malzahar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Graves together, you may not be providing your team much engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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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 Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Graves synergy build include Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Malzahar and Graves pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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