Jarvan IV with Malzahar
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Malzahar
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Jarvan IV Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Malzahar
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV 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 worsening shows that Malzahar helps Jarvan IV perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jarvan IV is an ally to Malzahar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Jarvan IV plays with Malzahar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Jarvan IV during teamfights.
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Jarvan IV that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Jarvan IV. By playing on the same side as Jarvan IV, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 49.3%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Jarvan IV and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means Jarvan IV players must be very careful when arranging Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Jarvan IV and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your team very much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Jarvan IV to work well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Jarvan IV and Malzahar synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Jarvan IV players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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