Malzahar with Rumble
How to Synergize Malzahar and Rumble
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Malzahar Rumble Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Rumble Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Rumble
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Rumble
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 Rumble Will Play
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Malzahar Rumble Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rumble as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rumble helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Rumble, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Rumble does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Rumble on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rumble. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rumble.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Rumble on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Rumble does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Rumble
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Rumble?
There is no ideal ally for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Rumble is a very bad companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 46.2%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Rumble that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rumble has a much greater difficulty compared to Malzahar. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Rumble allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Malzahar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Rumble together, you probably will not be providing your side enough sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Rumble ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Malzahar and Rumble synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Void Staff. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Rumble than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 46.2% helping carry Rumble with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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