Malzahar with Sivir
How to Synergize Malzahar and Sivir
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Malzahar Sivir Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Sivir
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Sivir
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 Sivir Will Play
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
Malzahar Sivir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sivir as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Sivir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sivir, 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 Sivir. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sivir helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Sivir, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Sivir supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Sivir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sivir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sivir.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Sivir on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Sivir does a poor job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Sivir
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Sivir?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Sivir is a terrible teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, she drops their win rate by -3.2% to 47.3%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Sivir that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Sivir has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Sivir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Malzahar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Sivir together, you may not be giving your team enough cover. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Sivir ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to work well with Sivir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Sivir synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Sivir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing alongside Sivir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Sivir with Malzahar are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.