Malzahar with Kassadin
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kassadin
based on 126 Malzahar with Kassadin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Malzahar Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Kassadin, he observes a measurable drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Kassadin does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Kassadin on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Kassadin
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect ally for Malzahar that will always be his best ally. However, Kassadin is a relatively poor companion for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Malzahar and Kassadin that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be very careful when lining up Kassadin comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Malzahar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Kassadin together, you probably will not be giving your team enough AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 to work well with Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Kassadin synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Future's Market, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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