Caitlyn with Malzahar
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Malzahar
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Caitlyn Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Malzahar
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn is paired with Malzahar, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Malzahar provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Malzahar on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Caitlyn in team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best ally for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Malzahar is a decent ally for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Caitlyn and Malzahar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Malzahar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Caitlyn players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Caitlyn and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Caitlyn in order to pair well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Caitlyn and Malzahar synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Lord Dominik's Regards. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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