Malzahar with Garen
How to Synergize Malzahar and Garen
based on 4,421 Malzahar with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Garen Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Garen
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Malzahar Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Garen helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Garen, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Garen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Garen on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Garen
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Garen is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Malzahar and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Garen teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Malzahar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Garen together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Garen synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Garen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Malzahar and Garen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Garen with Malzahar are presented for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.