Malzahar with Karthus
How to Synergize Malzahar and Karthus
based on 999 Malzahar with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Malzahar Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Karthus, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Karthus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karthus.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Karthus on the same team, he on average receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Karthus
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no one best synergy for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. Yet, Karthus is a relatively poor companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Malzahar and Karthus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you need to be very careful when finding Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Malzahar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Karthus together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Karthus teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to work well with Karthus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Malzahar and Karthus synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Karthus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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