Malzahar with Leona
How to Synergize Malzahar and Leona
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Malzahar Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Leona
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Malzahar Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Leona helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Leona, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Leona helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Leona on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Leona does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Leona
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Leona?
There is no top synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Leona is a pretty good companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, she increases their win rate by 2.8% to 53.3%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Malzahar and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Leona teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Malzahar and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona ally, 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 to synergize with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Malzahar and Leona synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Leona than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Malzahar and Leona pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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