Malzahar with Sona
How to Synergize Malzahar and Sona
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Malzahar Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Sona
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Malzahar Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sona 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 Sona, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Sona does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sona.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Sona on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Sona?
There is no top ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Sona is a good companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, she raises their win rate by 1.5% to 52.0%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Malzahar and Sona that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Sona comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malzahar and Sona together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough engage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to synergize with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Malzahar and Sona synergy build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Sona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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