Varus with Malzahar
How to Synergize Varus and Malzahar
based on 4,643 Varus with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Varus with Malzahar
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Varus perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is an ally to Malzahar, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Malzahar helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Malzahar on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Varus during teamfights.
Synergies between Varus and Malzahar
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Is Varus better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top synergy for Varus that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 49.2%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Varus and Malzahar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Malzahar has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you need to be careful when arranging Malzahar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Varus and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your side enough engage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Varus in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Varus and Malzahar synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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