Volibear with Malzahar
How to Synergize Volibear and Malzahar
based on 2,559 Volibear with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Volibear Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear 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.
Volibear Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps Volibear perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Volibear in team fights.
Synergies between Volibear and Malzahar
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top champion pairing for Volibear that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Volibear. By being on the same side as Volibear, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 48.5%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Volibear and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means you should be very careful when lining up Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Volibear players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Volibear and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Volibear to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Volibear and Malzahar synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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