Malzahar with Gangplank
How to Synergize Malzahar and Gangplank
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Malzahar Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Malzahar Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Gangplank, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Gangplank provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Gangplank on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Gangplank
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. Yet, Gangplank is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Malzahar and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you need to be cautious when finding Gangplank teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Gangplank together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn 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 by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Malzahar and Gangplank synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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