Kog'Maw with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kog'Maw and Malzahar
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Kog'Maw Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kog'Maw and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw with Malzahar
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kog'Maw in LoL
The Kog'Maw Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kog'Maw sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Kog'Maw perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kog'Maw is paired with Malzahar, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Malzahar doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kog'Maw is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Moreover, when Kog'Maw plays with Malzahar on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Malzahar does a decent job of covering Kog'Maw in team fights.
Synergies between Kog'Maw and Malzahar
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Is Kog'Maw better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect synergy for Kog'Maw that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Malzahar is a good ally for Kog'Maw. By playing on the same team as Kog'Maw, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Kog'Maw and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Kog'Maw. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Kog'Maw players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kog'Maw and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of cover. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Kog'Maw and Malzahar synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Malzahar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Malzahar with Kog'Maw are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.