Malzahar with Warwick
How to Synergize Malzahar and Warwick
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Malzahar Warwick Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Warwick
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Warwick
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 Warwick Will Play
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
Malzahar Warwick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Warwick as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Warwick helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is an ally to Warwick, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Warwick helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Warwick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Warwick.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Warwick on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Warwick does a decent job of covering Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Warwick
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Warwick?
There is no top synergy for Malzahar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Warwick is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Malzahar and Warwick that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Warwick allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Malzahar and Warwick together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough cover. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Warwick ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Warwick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Malzahar and Warwick synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Warwick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Warwick with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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