Malzahar with Skarner
How to Synergize Malzahar and Skarner
based on 386 Malzahar with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Malzahar Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Skarner helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Skarner, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This could signal that Skarner does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Skarner.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Skarner on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Skarner
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Skarner is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 50.0%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Malzahar and Skarner together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of tankyness. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to pair well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Malzahar and Skarner synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 builds that we analyzed for Malzahar and Skarner pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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