Rammus with Malzahar
How to Synergize Rammus and Malzahar
based on 2,309 Rammus with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Malzahar
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
Advice to Understand How Malzahar Will Play
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.
Rammus Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Rammus perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rammus plays on the same team as Malzahar, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Malzahar does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Rammus plays with Malzahar on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Rammus during teamfights.
Synergies between Rammus and Malzahar
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Rammus that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Rammus. By being on the same team as Rammus, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Rammus and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Rammus. That means you should be very careful when finding Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Rammus and Malzahar together, you probably will not be giving your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Rammus to work well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Rammus and Malzahar synergy build consist of Thornmail, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Rammus players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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