Rumble with Malzahar
How to Synergize Rumble and Malzahar
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Rumble Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Malzahar
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Rumble perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble is an ally to Malzahar, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could signal that Malzahar does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Rumble plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Rumble during team fights.
Synergies between Rumble and Malzahar
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect companion for Rumble that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very bad teammate for Rumble. By being on the same side as Rumble, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 46.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Rumble and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means Rumble players don't need to be careful when lining up Malzahar allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Rumble and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rumble to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Rumble and Malzahar synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rumble had an average win rate of 46.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Rumble players should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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