Bard with Malzahar
How to Synergize Bard and Malzahar
based on 3,032 Bard with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Bard with Malzahar
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 decrease shows that Malzahar helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Malzahar, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard 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 alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Malzahar on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 52.6%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Bard and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Bard players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Bard and Malzahar synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.6% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Bard are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.