Malzahar with Talon
How to Synergize Malzahar and Talon
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Malzahar Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Talon
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Talon
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.
Advice to Understand How Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Malzahar Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Talon. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Talon helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Talon, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Talon does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Talon.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Talon on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Talon?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will always be his best synergy. However, Talon is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By locking into the same team as Malzahar, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Malzahar and Talon that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you should be very careful when arranging Talon teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Malzahar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Talon together, you will not be granting your team very much engage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Malzahar in order to pair well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Malzahar and Talon synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Talon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Talon with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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