Malzahar with Gwen
How to Synergize Malzahar and Gwen
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Malzahar Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Malzahar Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gwen helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Gwen, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Gwen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Gwen 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 Gwen.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Gwen on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Gwen
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Gwen is a not very good teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -1.7% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Malzahar and Gwen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Gwen comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Gwen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of engage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 to synergize with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Gwen synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Gwen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Malzahar players should use 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 players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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