Malzahar with Aatrox
How to Synergize Malzahar and Aatrox
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Malzahar Aatrox Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Aatrox
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.
Advice to Understand How Aatrox Will Play
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Malzahar Aatrox Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aatrox as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aatrox helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Aatrox, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Aatrox does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Aatrox on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aatrox.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Aatrox on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Aatrox
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Aatrox?
There is no perfect synergy for Malzahar that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Aatrox is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Aatrox that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aatrox has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Aatrox allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Aatrox together, you will not be giving your side very much protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Malzahar and Aatrox synergy build include Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Aatrox than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 50.3% helping carry Aatrox with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Malzahar players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% win rate overall.
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