Yone vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Yone
based on 10,461 Yone vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Yone vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Yone
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.
Yone vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Yone in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Yone versus Malphite counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malphite. This observation is largely a result of the differences in deaths.
Yone often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yone and Malphite
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Who is Better, Yone or Malphite?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yone usually loses when trying to fight Malphite, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Yone makes a poor counter to Malphite.
While Yone does have a lower winrate than Malphite, when facing one another, Yone also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Yone into Malphiteas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yone has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yone vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yone is a somewhat poor counter to Malphite. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yone against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yone 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 stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Malphite. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Yone versus Malphite build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Malphite than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Yone boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Malphite with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Malphite as Yone, Yone players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Yone vs Malphite battles, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Malphite as Yone are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.