Malzahar with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Malzahar and Lee Sin
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Malzahar Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
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.
Malzahar Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lee Sin helps Malzahar perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar plays on the same team as Lee Sin, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Lee Sin does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played alongside Lee Sin 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 alongside Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Malzahar plays with Lee Sin on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malzahar that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Lee Sin is a not very good companion for Malzahar. By playing on the same side as Malzahar, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Malzahar and Lee Sin that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Lee Sin teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Malzahar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Lee Sin together, you will not be granting your other teammates much tankyness. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 work well with Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Malzahar and Lee Sin synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Lee Sin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar had an average winrate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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