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.
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
The Malzahar Jayce synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jayce, 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 Jayce. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jayce helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Jayce, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Jayce doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Jayce on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Jayce. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jayce.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Jayce on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Jayce does a decent job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Jayce is a terrible companion for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 46.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Malzahar and Jayce that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Jayce has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be cautious when arranging Jayce comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Malzahar and Jayce together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Jayce teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Malzahar to pair well with Jayce during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Malzahar and Jayce synergy build include Malignance, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Jayce than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jayce with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip 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 chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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