Malzahar with Gnar
How to Synergize Malzahar and Gnar
based on 1,344 Malzahar with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Malzahar Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gnar helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Gnar, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Gnar does not support 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 Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Gnar on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best companion for Malzahar that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Gnar is a relatively poor teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Malzahar and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you must be very careful when finding Gnar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Malzahar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Gnar together, you probably will not be providing your team much engage potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Malzahar and Gnar synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune sets players used for Malzahar and Gnar pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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