Malzahar with Kennen
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kennen
based on 686 Malzahar with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Malzahar Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Kennen, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Kennen does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Kennen
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top ally for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a very bad ally for Malzahar. By locking into the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 46.4%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Malzahar and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Malzahar and Kennen together, you will not be providing your other allies very much engage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Malzahar and Kennen synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Malzahar players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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