Swain with Malzahar
How to Synergize Swain and Malzahar
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Swain Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Swain with Malzahar
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.
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.
Swain Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Swain in LoL
The Swain 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, Swain sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Swain perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Swain plays on the same team as Malzahar, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Malzahar does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Malzahar does a decent job of protecting Swain in team fights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Swain that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Swain. By playing on the same team as Swain, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 51.0%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Swain and Malzahar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means Swain players don't need to be cautious when finding Malzahar allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Swain players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Swain and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Swain to work well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Swain and Malzahar synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Swain included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Swain had an average win rate of 51.0% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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