Malzahar with Kayle
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kayle
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Malzahar Kayle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Malzahar Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 Kayle. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kayle helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Kayle, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This may signal that Kayle does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Kayle on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kayle.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Kayle on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kayle does a decent job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no perfect companion for Malzahar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Kayle is a pretty good ally for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, she raises their win rate by 2.1% to 52.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Malzahar and Kayle that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Kayle has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be careful when lining up Kayle teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Malzahar and Kayle together, you may not be granting your side enough sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayle ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Kayle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Malzahar and Kayle synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kayle than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 52.6% when playing alongside Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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