Kindred with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kindred and Malzahar
based on 2,409 Kindred with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kindred Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Malzahar
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Kindred perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kindred plays on the same team as Malzahar, they sees a little increase in their complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Malzahar provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Malzahar on the same team, they on average takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Kindred in teamfights.
Synergies between Kindred and Malzahar
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal synergy for Kindred that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. However, Malzahar is a below average ally for Kindred. By locking into the same side as Kindred, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 46.9%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Kindred and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Kindred. That means Kindred players should be careful when lining up Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kindred and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kindred to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Kindred and Malzahar synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred used at least these three items in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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