Malzahar with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kai'Sa
based on 4,544 Malzahar with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Malzahar Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kai'Sa helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Kai'Sa on the same side, 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 Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kai'Sa does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Kai'Sa
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no perfect companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Kai'Sa is a terrible teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 46.4%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Kai'Sa that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when arranging Kai'Sa teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malzahar and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Malzahar and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kai'Sa than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
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