Shaco with Malzahar
How to Synergize Shaco and Malzahar
based on 4,381 Shaco with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Malzahar
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Understand How Malzahar Will Play
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.
Shaco Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Shaco perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco is an ally to Malzahar, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Malzahar 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 with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Malzahar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Shaco in teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Malzahar
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Shaco and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Shaco and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of cover. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to synergize with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Shaco and Malzahar synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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