Malzahar with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Malzahar and Tahm Kench
based on 2,928 Malzahar with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Malzahar Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Tahm Kench provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played with Tahm Kench 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 Tahm Kench.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Tahm Kench does a poor job of protecting Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Tahm Kench
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malzahar that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Tahm Kench is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Malzahar and Tahm Kench that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Tahm Kench comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Malzahar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Malzahar and Tahm Kench together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Malzahar and Tahm Kench synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Malignance. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Tahm Kench than with most other common builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Malzahar players 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 combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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