Malzahar with Akshan
How to Synergize Malzahar and Akshan
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Malzahar Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Akshan
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.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Malzahar Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akshan helps Malzahar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Akshan, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Akshan doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Akshan on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Akshan is a very bad companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, they lowers their win rate by -5.0% to 45.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malzahar and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Akshan teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Malzahar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Malzahar and Akshan together, you will not be granting your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to work well with Akshan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Akshan synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 45.5% helping carry Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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