Kassadin with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kassadin and Malzahar
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Kassadin Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Malzahar
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Kassadin perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is paired with Malzahar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Malzahar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Malzahar on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Kassadin during teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect companion for Kassadin that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Malzahar is a relatively poor teammate for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Kassadin and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Malzahar allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kassadin and Malzahar together, you may not be granting your other teammates much attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Kassadin and Malzahar synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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