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.
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
The Malzahar Aurelion Sol synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aurelion Sol, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aurelion Sol. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aurelion Sol helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Aurelion Sol, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Aurelion Sol provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Aurelion Sol on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aurelion Sol. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aurelion Sol.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Aurelion Sol on the same side, he on average receives significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Aurelion Sol does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Aurelion Sol is a very bad ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -5.7% to 44.8%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Malzahar and Aurelion Sol that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aurelion Sol has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Aurelion Sol allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malzahar and Aurelion Sol together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Aurelion Sol ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Malzahar to work well with Aurelion Sol during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Malzahar and Aurelion Sol synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Aurelion Sol than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 44.8% when playing alongside Aurelion Sol with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
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