Kayn with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kayn and Malzahar
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Kayn Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Malzahar
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn 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 decrease shows that Malzahar helps Kayn perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is an ally to Malzahar, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn 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 synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Kayn in team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top champion pairing for Kayn that will always be his best synergy. However, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Kayn. By being on the same side as Kayn, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 49.3%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Kayn and Malzahar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, Kayn players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Kayn and Malzahar together, you will not be giving your side enough engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to synergize with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Kayn and Malzahar synergy build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Kayn bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Kayn and Malzahar pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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