Malzahar with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Malzahar and Kog'Maw
based on 908 Malzahar with Kog'Maw pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Core Malzahar Items
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Malzahar Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kog'Maw helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Kog'Maw does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Kog'Maw
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Kog'Maw is a very typical companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Malzahar and Kog'Maw that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kog'Maw allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malzahar and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of cover. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Malzahar Players
How We Calculated Our Malzahar Kog'Maw 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 in order to work well with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Malzahar and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kog'Maw than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 runes that we analyzed for Malzahar and Kog'Maw pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kog'Maw with Malzahar are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.