Lee Sin with Malzahar
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Malzahar
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Lee Sin Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Malzahar
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin 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 decrease shows that Malzahar helps Lee Sin perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lee Sin tries to synergize with Malzahar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Malzahar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together with Malzahar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Malzahar on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Lee Sin during teamfights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no one best synergy for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Malzahar is a good companion for Lee Sin. By locking into the same side as Lee Sin, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Lee Sin and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Malzahar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Lee Sin players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Lee Sin and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your other allies very much engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin to pair well with Malzahar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Lee Sin and Malzahar synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Lee Sin players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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