Malzahar with Viktor
How to Synergize Malzahar and Viktor
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Malzahar Viktor Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Malzahar Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Viktor helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Viktor, he observes a moderate decrease in his total damage output. This may indicate that Viktor does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Viktor on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Viktor.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Viktor on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Viktor does a decent job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Viktor is a terrible companion for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he lowers their win rate by -3.3% to 47.2%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Malzahar and Viktor that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Viktor has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players must be careful when enlisting Viktor comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Malzahar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malzahar and Viktor together, you will not be providing your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Viktor teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to pair well with Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Malzahar and Viktor synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Viktor than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Viktor with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Future's Market, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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