Malzahar with Volibear
How to Synergize Malzahar and Volibear
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Malzahar Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Volibear
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 Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Volibear helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Volibear, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Volibear does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Volibear on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Volibear.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Volibear on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Volibear does a decent job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Volibear is a not very good companion for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Malzahar and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Volibear teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Malzahar players should expect to 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.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Volibear together, you probably will not be granting your side very much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to synergize with Volibear during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Malzahar and Volibear synergy build consist of Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Volibear than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Volibear with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players 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 rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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