Lux with Malzahar
How to Synergize Lux and Malzahar
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Lux Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Lux with Malzahar
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Lux in LoL
The Lux Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Lux perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux is paired with Malzahar, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Malzahar does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Malzahar on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Lux during teamfights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Lux that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Lux. By playing on the same team as Lux, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 50.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Lux and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Lux. That means Lux players need to be cautious when enlisting Malzahar allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Lux and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your team very much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Lux to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Lux and Malzahar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lux combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Lux and Malzahar pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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