Malzahar with Hecarim
How to Synergize Malzahar and Hecarim
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Malzahar Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Malzahar Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Hecarim helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Hecarim, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Hecarim does not provide 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 together with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Hecarim. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Hecarim on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of covering Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Hecarim
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Hecarim is a below average teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Malzahar and Hecarim that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when lining up Hecarim allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Malzahar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Hecarim together, you will not be granting your team very much engage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 synergize with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Malzahar and Hecarim synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Hecarim with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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