Malzahar with Rammus
How to Synergize Malzahar and Rammus
based on 2,309 Malzahar with Rammus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Rammus Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Rammus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Rammus
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Rammus
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 Rammus Will Play
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Malzahar Rammus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rammus as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Rammus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rammus, 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 Rammus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rammus helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Rammus, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Rammus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Rammus 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 Rammus.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Rammus on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Rammus does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Rammus
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Rammus?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Rammus is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.1%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Malzahar and Rammus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Rammus has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Rammus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Rammus together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Rammus ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 work well with Rammus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Malzahar and Rammus synergy build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Rammus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rammus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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