Malzahar with Sylas
How to Synergize Malzahar and Sylas
based on 968 Malzahar with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Malzahar Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Sylas, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Sylas helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Sylas on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Sylas does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Sylas
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no ideal synergy for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Sylas is a terrible teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he lowers their win rate by -4.1% to 46.4%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Sylas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Malzahar players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Sylas together, you probably will not be granting your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to synergize with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Malzahar and Sylas synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Sylas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
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