Sona with Malzahar
How to Synergize Sona and Malzahar
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Sona Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Sona with Malzahar
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
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.
Sona Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Sona in LoL
The Sona 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, Sona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Sona perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Malzahar, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Malzahar on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Sona in teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Sona that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Malzahar is a decent companion for Sona. By locking into the same side as Sona, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 52.0%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Sona and Malzahar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means you must be very careful when finding Malzahar allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Sona and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Sona to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Sona and Malzahar synergy build include Dream Maker, Echoes of Helia, and Dawncore. When Sona used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Sona and Malzahar pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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