Malzahar with Swain
How to Synergize Malzahar and Swain
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Malzahar Swain Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Swain
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Malzahar Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Malzahar perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Swain, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Swain does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Swain on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Swain
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Swain is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 51.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Malzahar and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players must be cautious when finding Swain teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Malzahar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Swain together, you will not be giving your side much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Swain teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 pair well with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Malzahar and Swain synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Swain than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Malzahar players should take 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 we have analyed for Malzahar and Swain pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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