K'Sante with Malzahar
How to Synergize K'Sante and Malzahar
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K'Sante Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Malzahar
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante 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, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps K'Sante perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante tries to synergize with Malzahar, they observes a marginal improvement in their full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Malzahar provides cover for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Malzahar on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Malzahar.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Malzahar on the same side, they typically receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering K'Sante during teamfights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Malzahar
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect synergy for K'Sante that will 100% of the time be their top ally. However, Malzahar is a very typical ally for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 46.3%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between K'Sante and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing K'Sante and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your team much AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your K'Sante and Malzahar synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When K'Sante included at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for K'Sante and Malzahar pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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