Malzahar with Brand
How to Synergize Malzahar and Brand
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Malzahar Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Brand
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Malzahar Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Brand, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Brand does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Brand.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Brand on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Brand
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Brand?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Brand is a pretty good ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 52.0%. This proves that there is a good bond between Malzahar and Brand that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when lining up Brand comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Brand together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to synergize with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Malzahar and Brand synergy build include Malignance, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing alongside Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Malzahar and Brand pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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