Malzahar with Kindred
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kindred
based on 2,409 Malzahar with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Malzahar Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kindred helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Kindred, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Kindred does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kindred.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Kindred on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kindred does a decent job of covering Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Kindred
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no top ally for Malzahar that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kindred is a terrible ally for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, they decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Kindred that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kindred teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Malzahar and Kindred together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 synergize with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Malzahar and Kindred synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kindred than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 46.9% helping carry Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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