Jhin with Malzahar
How to Synergize Jhin and Malzahar
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Jhin Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jhin and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Jhin with Malzahar
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
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.
Jhin Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Jhin in LoL
The Jhin 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, Jhin 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 drop shows that Malzahar helps Jhin perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jhin is paired with Malzahar, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Jhin is played alongside Malzahar on the same team, 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 alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Jhin plays with Malzahar on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Jhin during team fights.
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Is Jhin better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Jhin that will always be his best synergy. However, Malzahar is a pretty good ally for Jhin. By locking into the same side as Jhin, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 52.1%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Jhin and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Jhin. That means Jhin players don't need to be very careful when arranging Malzahar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Jhin players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Jhin and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of engage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Jhin to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Jhin and Malzahar synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Rapid Firecannon, and Hubris. When Jhin used 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, Jhin boasted an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Jhin players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Gathering Storm, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.1% winrate overall.
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