Malzahar with Viego
How to Synergize Malzahar and Viego
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Malzahar Viego Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Viego
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Viego
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.
Malzahar Viego Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viego as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Viego synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viego, 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 Viego. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Viego helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Viego, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Viego does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Viego 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 with Viego.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Viego on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Viego does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Viego
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Viego?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Viego is a decent ally for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, they improves their win rate by 1.2% to 51.7%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Malzahar and Viego that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Viego has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when arranging Viego allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Malzahar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malzahar and Viego together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough engage potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Viego ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Viego during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Malzahar and Viego synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Viego than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 51.7% helping carry Viego with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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