Lucian with Malzahar
How to Synergize Lucian and Malzahar
based on 6,667 Lucian with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Malzahar
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian 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 drop shows that Malzahar helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian tries to synergize with Malzahar, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Malzahar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Lucian in team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Lucian that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Lucian. By being on the same team as Lucian, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Lucian and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be careful when finding Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Lucian players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Lucian and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your team much engage potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to synergize with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Lucian and Malzahar synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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