Kayle with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kayle and Malzahar
based on 2,954 Kayle with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayle Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayle and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kayle with Malzahar
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kayle in LoL
The Kayle 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, Kayle sees a large worsening 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 Kayle perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayle is paired with Malzahar, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayle is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Kayle plays with Malzahar on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Kayle in team fights.
Synergies between Kayle and Malzahar
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Is Kayle better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kayle that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a good teammate for Kayle. By playing on the same team as Kayle, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 52.6%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Kayle and Malzahar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Kayle. That means Kayle players don't need to be very careful when lining up Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Kayle and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your team a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kayle to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Kayle and Malzahar synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Kayle included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 52.6% helping carry Malzahar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kayle and Malzahar pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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