Malzahar with Shaco
How to Synergize Malzahar and Shaco
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Malzahar Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Malzahar Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shaco helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Shaco, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Shaco provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Shaco 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 Shaco.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Shaco on the same team, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Shaco
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no one best synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Shaco is a below average companion for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 49.1%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Malzahar and Shaco that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you should be careful when enlisting Shaco teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malzahar and Shaco together, you will not be granting your side enough protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Malzahar and Shaco synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Shaco than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Malzahar and Shaco pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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