Malzahar with Kayn
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kayn
based on 5,948 Malzahar with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Malzahar Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kayn helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Kayn, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Kayn provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Kayn on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kayn does a poor job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Kayn
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Kayn is a not very good teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Malzahar and Kayn that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players should be careful when lining up Kayn comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Kayn together, you will not be providing your team much cover. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Additional Information for Malzahar Players
How We Calculated Our Malzahar Kayn Synergy Build and Stats
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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 Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Kayn synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kayn than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Kayn with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Kayn with Malzahar are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.