Hecarim with Malzahar
How to Synergize Hecarim and Malzahar
based on 2,989 Hecarim with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Malzahar
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Hecarim perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim is paired with Malzahar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played 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 alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Malzahar on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Hecarim during team fights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Malzahar
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best ally for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Hecarim. By locking into the same side as Hecarim, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 49.1%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Hecarim and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Hecarim players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Hecarim and Malzahar together, you may not be granting your other allies much tankyness. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Hecarim to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Hecarim and Malzahar synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Hecarim and Malzahar pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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