Malzahar with Riven
How to Synergize Malzahar and Riven
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Malzahar Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Riven
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Malzahar Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Riven, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Riven provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Riven
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Riven is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you should be cautious when arranging Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Malzahar and Riven synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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