Sylas with Malzahar
How to Synergize Sylas and Malzahar
based on 968 Sylas with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Malzahar
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas 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, Sylas 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 drop shows that Malzahar helps Sylas perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas is an ally to Malzahar, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Malzahar does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually receives much more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Sylas in teamfights.
Synergies between Sylas and Malzahar
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal companion for Sylas that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Malzahar is a relatively poor companion for Sylas. By being on the same team as Sylas, he drops their win rate by -2.6% to 46.4%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Sylas and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players must be cautious when arranging Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Sylas players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Sylas and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your side much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Sylas and Malzahar synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 46.4% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Sylas players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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