Malzahar with Ivern
How to Synergize Malzahar and Ivern
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Malzahar Ivern Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Ivern
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Ivern
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 Ivern Will Play
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
Malzahar Ivern Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ivern as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Ivern synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ivern, 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 Ivern. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ivern helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Ivern, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Ivern provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Ivern on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ivern. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ivern.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Ivern on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Ivern does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Ivern?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Ivern is a below average ally for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Malzahar and Ivern that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ivern has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Ivern teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Ivern together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Ivern ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to synergize with Ivern during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Malzahar and Ivern synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Ivern than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ivern with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should take 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 builds players picked for Malzahar and Ivern pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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