Malzahar with Jhin
How to Synergize Malzahar and Jhin
based on 13,319 Malzahar with Jhin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Jhin
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.
Advice to Understand How Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Malzahar Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jhin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jhin helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Jhin, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could signal that Jhin helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Jhin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Jhin.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Jhin on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Jhin does a poor job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Jhin
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no one best champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Jhin is a decent ally for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good synergy between Malzahar and Jhin that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Jhin has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Jhin comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Malzahar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Malzahar and Jhin together, you probably will not be giving your side much protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Jhin ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar to work well with Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Jhin synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Jhin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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