Katarina with Malzahar
How to Synergize Katarina and Malzahar
based on 402 Katarina with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Malzahar
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Katarina perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Malzahar, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Malzahar does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Malzahar on the same side, she typically receives more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Malzahar
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal ally for Katarina that will always be her #1 synergy. However, Malzahar is a very bad teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he lowers their win rate by -5.3% to 43.5%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Katarina and Malzahar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Malzahar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Katarina players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your side much engage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Katarina and Malzahar synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 43.5% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.5% win rate overall.
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