Malzahar with K'Sante
How to Synergize Malzahar and K'Sante
based on 1,550 Malzahar with K'Sante pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Malzahar K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that K'Sante helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as K'Sante, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may signal that K'Sante helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with K'Sante on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without K'Sante. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with K'Sante on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Malzahar in teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and K'Sante
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no one best ally for Malzahar that will always be his top ally. Yet, K'Sante is a very bad ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, they decreases their win rate by -4.2% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Malzahar and K'Sante that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Malzahar. That means you need to be cautious when lining up K'Sante comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malzahar and K'Sante together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your K'Sante teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar to synergize with K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Malzahar and K'Sante synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Malzahar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with K'Sante than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take 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 champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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