Malzahar with Shyvana
How to Synergize Malzahar and Shyvana
based on 1,724 Malzahar with Shyvana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Shyvana Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Shyvana
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 Shyvana Will Play
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Malzahar Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shyvana helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Shyvana, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Shyvana does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Shyvana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shyvana.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Shyvana on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Shyvana does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Shyvana
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Shyvana is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Malzahar and Shyvana that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shyvana has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Shyvana teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Shyvana together, you probably will not be providing your side very much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 synergize with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Malzahar and Shyvana synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Shyvana than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Malzahar and Shyvana pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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