Malzahar with Varus
How to Synergize Malzahar and Varus
based on 4,643 Malzahar with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Varus Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Varus
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Malzahar Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Varus, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Varus does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Varus 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 Varus.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Varus on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Varus
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Varus?
There is no ideal ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Varus is a not very good ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Malzahar and Varus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when finding Varus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Varus together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of cover. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to synergize with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Malzahar and Varus synergy build consist of Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Malzahar and Varus pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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