Kennen with Malzahar
How to Synergize Kennen and Malzahar
based on 686 Kennen with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Malzahar
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
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.
Kennen Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen 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, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Malzahar, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This change may signal that Malzahar does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Malzahar
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top synergy for Kennen that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Malzahar is a relatively poor teammate for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 46.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Kennen and Malzahar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be cautious when arranging Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kennen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Malzahar together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to work well with Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Kennen and Malzahar synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 46.4% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Kennen players should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kennen and Malzahar pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.4% win rate overall.
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