Viego with Malzahar
How to Synergize Viego and Malzahar
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Viego Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Viego vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viego and Malzahar
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.
Viego Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Viego in LoL
The Viego Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Viego sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Viego perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viego is an ally to Malzahar, they gets a small increase in their complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Malzahar provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Viego is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Viego plays with Malzahar on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Viego during teamfights.
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Is Viego better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Viego that will always be their ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a decent companion for Viego. By being on the same team as Viego, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 51.7%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Viego and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Viego. That means you should be cautious when lining up Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Viego and Malzahar together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
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 will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Viego in order to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Viego and Malzahar synergy build include Wit's End, Death's Dance, and Kraken Slayer. When Viego included at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Viego had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Viego players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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