Malzahar with Lucian
How to Synergize Malzahar and Lucian
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Malzahar Lucian Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Malzahar Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Lucian, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Lucian does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lucian. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lucian.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Lucian on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Lucian does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Lucian
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no top synergy for Malzahar that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Lucian is a below average companion for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Malzahar and Lucian that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when finding Lucian comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Lucian together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of cover. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Lucian synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Lucian than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Lucian with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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