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Cassiopeia with Malzahar

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How to Synergize Cassiopeia and Malzahar

based on 283 Cassiopeia with Malzahar pairs
Win Rate
53.4 %
K/D/A
2.03
Pick Rate
0.8 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we take in the stats from from millions of League matches straight from Riot Games each week. Cassiopeia has gone into battle with Malzahar in 283 recent, ranked matches. By gathering so much accurate data from the developers of League, we feel confident that we can provide you with high-quality, usable builds to help Cassiopeia play with Malzahar. It is very rare for Cassiopeia to play with Malzahar on the same team. This has only occurred in about 0.8% of games with Cassiopeia.

Cassiopeia Malzahar Synergy Summary

Cassiopeia does a good job of fighting on the same side as Malzahar. Typically, she wins a terrific 53.4% of rounds the champions appear on the same team. If you want to play better as Cassiopeia when fighting on the same team as Malzahar by figuring out how to better synergize your tactics with him, then review the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Cassiopeia vs Malzahar Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionTear of the Goddess

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeLost Chapter

Core Cassiopeia Items

~22 Mins
Seraph's EmbraceLiandry's TormentRod of Ages

Optional Items

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Cassiopeia to level upe
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Second ability for Cassiopeia to level upq
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Last skill for Cassiopeia to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: TenacityLast Stand
SorceryManaflow BandTranscendence
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Cassiopeia's passive ability p
Cassiopeia's q ability q
Cassiopeia's w ability w
Cassiopeia's e ability e
Cassiopeia's ultimate ability r
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E
2
Q
3
E
4
W
5
E
6
R
7
E
8
Q
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Q
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Q
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W
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Guide to Synergizing Cassiopeia and Malzahar

Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia with Malzahar

Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.

Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.

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.

Cassiopeia Malzahar Synergy Stats

Cassiopeia Image
Win Rate
53.4 %
VS
Win Rate
46.6 %
Malzahar Image
7.1
< Kills >
6.8
6.6
< Deaths >
6.2
6.3
< Assists >
6.2
1.64
< Killing Sprees >
1.58
177
< Minions Killed >
175
0.16
< Dragons Killed >
0.13
0.41
< Inhibitors >
0.43
710
< Physical Damage >
639
22,739
< Magic Damage >
22,317
360
< True Damage >
342
23,809
< Damage Dealt >
23,299
28,278
< Damage Taken >
27,133
12,171
< Gold Earned >
11,743
2.03
< Towers >
1.86
0.05
< Baron Takedowns >
0.05
7,664
< Total Healing >
7,164
15,797
< Experience >
15,283
19
< Vision Score >
18
9
< Wards Placed >
9
473
< Time Dealing CC >
451

How to Play with Malzahar as Cassiopeia in LoL

The Cassiopeia Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.

Overall, Cassiopeia sees a very large drop in her 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 Cassiopeia perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Cassiopeia is paired with Malzahar, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Cassiopeia is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.

Moreover, when Cassiopeia plays with Malzahar on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Cassiopeia during team fights.

Synergies between Cassiopeia and Malzahar

Damage Types Compared

Cassiopeia
Malzahar
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Cassiopeia
Malzahar

Is Cassiopeia better when played alongside Malzahar?

There is no ideal companion for Cassiopeia that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a fantastic ally for Cassiopeia. By playing on the same side as Cassiopeia, he increases their win rate by 3.1% to 53.4%. This proves that there is a strong strategic relationship between Cassiopeia and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than alone.

Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than Cassiopeia. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.

Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

In contrast, by bringing Cassiopeia and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your side very much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.

Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Cassiopeia Players

How We Calculated Our Cassiopeia Malzahar Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Cassiopeia and Malzahar, we analyzed 283 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Cassiopeia with Malzahar comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia in order to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.

The top finished items to include in your Cassiopeia and Malzahar synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Cassiopeia had an average winrate of 53.4% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.

To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.

By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Cassiopeia are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.