Malzahar with Draven
How to Synergize Malzahar and Draven
based on 3,591 Malzahar with Draven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Draven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Draven
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Draven
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 Draven Will Play
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Malzahar Draven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Draven as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Draven helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Draven, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Draven 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 Draven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Draven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Draven.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Draven on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Draven does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Draven?
There is no one best companion for Malzahar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Draven is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Malzahar and Draven that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Draven has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players must be careful when lining up Draven comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Malzahar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Draven together, you will not be granting your side much cover. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Draven teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar to pair well with Draven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Malzahar and Draven synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Void Staff. When Malzahar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Draven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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