Warwick with Malzahar
How to Synergize Warwick and Malzahar
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Warwick Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Malzahar
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.
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.
Warwick Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malzahar helps Warwick perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Warwick is paired with Malzahar, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played alongside Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Warwick plays with Malzahar on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Warwick during team fights.
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect synergy for Warwick that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Warwick. By playing on the same side as Warwick, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.7%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Warwick and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Warwick. That means Warwick players must be careful when finding Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Warwick and Malzahar together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Warwick in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Warwick and Malzahar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Warwick boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Warwick and Malzahar pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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