Akshan with Malzahar
How to Synergize Akshan and Malzahar
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Akshan Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Malzahar
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their 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 Akshan perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan tries to synergize with Malzahar, they observes a small increase in their full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Malzahar provides protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Malzahar on the same team, they on average takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Akshan in teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Akshan that will always be their #1 ally. However, Malzahar is a terrible companion for Akshan. By being on the same side as Akshan, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 45.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Akshan and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you must be careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Akshan players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Akshan and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your side very much AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Akshan and Malzahar synergy build include Kraken Slayer, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.5% winrate overall.
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