Rakan with Malzahar
How to Synergize Rakan and Malzahar
based on 3,247 Rakan with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Malzahar
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Understand How Malzahar Will Play
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.
Rakan Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is an ally to Malzahar, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Malzahar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Malzahar 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 synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Malzahar on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Rakan during teamfights.
Synergies between Rakan and Malzahar
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 51.5%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Rakan and Malzahar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players should be very careful when finding Malzahar allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Rakan and Malzahar together, you may not be giving your other allies enough AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rakan and Malzahar synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Rakan incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Rakan and Malzahar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Malzahar with Rakan are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.