Kalista with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kalista and Malzahar
based on 999 Kalista with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Malzahar
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista 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 drop shows that Malzahar helps Kalista perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Malzahar, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This could indicate that Malzahar provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Malzahar on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Kalista in teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Malzahar
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect companion for Kalista that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, overall, Malzahar is a decent ally for Kalista. By locking into the same side as Kalista, he improves their win rate by 2.2% to 49.6%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Kalista and Malzahar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when finding Malzahar allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kalista and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your side enough engage potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Kalista and Malzahar synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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