Talon with Malzahar
How to Synergize Talon and Malzahar
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Talon Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Talon with Malzahar
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Talon in LoL
The Talon 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, Talon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps Talon perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon plays on the same team as Malzahar, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Malzahar does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Malzahar on the same side, he on average takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Talon in team fights.
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Is Talon better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect companion for Talon that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Malzahar is a pretty good companion for Talon. By locking into the same team as Talon, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Talon and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Talon. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Talon players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Talon and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your team enough engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Talon and Malzahar synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Talon bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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