Rek'Sai with Malzahar
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Malzahar
based on 543 Rek'Sai with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rek'Sai Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Malzahar
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Rek'Sai perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai is an ally to Malzahar, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malzahar provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Rek'Sai plays with Malzahar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Rek'Sai during team fights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Malzahar
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rek'Sai that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Malzahar is a very bad companion for Rek'Sai. By locking into the same team as Rek'Sai, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 45.3%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Rek'Sai and Malzahar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Rek'Sai. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Rek'Sai players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Rek'Sai and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much engage potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rek'Sai in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Rek'Sai and Malzahar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Malzahar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 45.3% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Rek'Sai and Malzahar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
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