Ahri vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Ahri
based on 4,338 Ahri vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Malphite
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Ahri vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some critical Ahri vs. Malphite counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malphite..
Ahri often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Malphite. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Malphite
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Who is Better, Ahri or Malphite?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Malphite, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a poor counter for Malphite.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Malphite, when facing one another, Ahri also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Malphite.
Additionally, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a bad counter for Malphite. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Malphite.
Other Champion Matchups Against Ahri
Additional Information for Ahri Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ahri to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Malphite. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Ahri versus Malphite build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Malphite than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing against Malphite with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Malphite as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Ahri vs Malphite counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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