Malzahar with Jax
How to Synergize Malzahar and Jax
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Malzahar Jax Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Jax
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Malzahar Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jax helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Jax, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Jax does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Jax on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jax.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Jax on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Jax does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Jax
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Jax?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Jax is a good teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 52.1%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Malzahar and Jax that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Jax comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Malzahar and Jax together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Jax ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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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 Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Malzahar and Jax synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Jax than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when playing alongside Jax with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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