Skarner with Malzahar
How to Synergize Skarner and Malzahar
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Skarner Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Malzahar
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Malzahar, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Malzahar on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal companion for Skarner that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Malzahar is a decent teammate for Skarner. By being on the same side as Skarner, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 50.0%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Skarner and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you must be careful when enlisting Malzahar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your side enough engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to work well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Skarner and Malzahar synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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