Kai'Sa with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Malzahar
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Kai'Sa Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Malzahar
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa sees a large worsening in her 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 Kai'Sa perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa tries to synergize with Malzahar, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Malzahar supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Malzahar on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Kai'Sa in team fights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical teammate for Kai'Sa. By playing on the same side as Kai'Sa, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 46.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Kai'Sa and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Kai'Sa players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kai'Sa and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your team enough crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Kai'Sa and Malzahar synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 46.4% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Kai'Sa players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Malzahar with Kai'Sa are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.