Shyvana with Malzahar
How to Synergize Shyvana and Malzahar
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Shyvana Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Malzahar
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Shyvana perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana is paired with Malzahar, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Malzahar provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Malzahar on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Shyvana during teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Malzahar
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Shyvana that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Shyvana. By playing on the same side as Shyvana, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Shyvana and Malzahar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players must be cautious when enlisting Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Shyvana and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your team a lot of support. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Shyvana and Malzahar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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