Malzahar with Lux
How to Synergize Malzahar and Lux
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Malzahar Lux Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Lux
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Malzahar Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lux. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lux helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Lux, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Lux does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Lux on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Lux. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lux.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Lux on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Lux does a poor job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Lux?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Lux is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Malzahar and Lux that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lux has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Lux teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Lux together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Lux ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Lux synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Lux than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Lux with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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