Malzahar with Shen
How to Synergize Malzahar and Shen
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Malzahar Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Shen
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Malzahar Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Shen, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Shen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Shen on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Shen is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Malzahar and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Shen together, you may not be giving your other teammates much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to pair well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Malzahar and Shen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Shen than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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