Malzahar with Katarina
How to Synergize Malzahar and Katarina
based on 402 Malzahar with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Malzahar Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Katarina, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Katarina does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Katarina on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Katarina
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Katarina is a very bad teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, she decreases their win rate by -7.0% to 43.5%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Malzahar and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be very careful when enlisting Katarina comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Katarina together, you may not be giving your team a lot of tankyness. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 pair well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Malzahar and Katarina synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 43.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Katarina with Malzahar are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.