Malzahar with Kha'Zix
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kha'Zix
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Malzahar Kha'Zix Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kha'Zix Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kha'Zix
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 Kha'Zix Will Play
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
Malzahar Kha'Zix Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kha'Zix as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kha'Zix synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kha'Zix, 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 Kha'Zix. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kha'Zix helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Kha'Zix, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kha'Zix provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Kha'Zix on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kha'Zix. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kha'Zix.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Kha'Zix on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kha'Zix does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Kha'Zix
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kha'Zix?
There is no one best champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Kha'Zix is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Malzahar and Kha'Zix that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kha'Zix has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Kha'Zix allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malzahar and Kha'Zix together, you may not be granting your side very much cover. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kha'Zix teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to pair well with Kha'Zix during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Malzahar and Kha'Zix synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kha'Zix than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Kha'Zix with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kha'Zix with Malzahar are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.