Ahri with Malphite
How to Synergize Ahri and Malphite
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Ahri Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ahri and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Ahri with 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 Understand How Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Ahri Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Ahri in LoL
The Ahri Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malphite helps Ahri perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri is an ally to Malphite, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Malphite supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Malphite.
Moreover, when Ahri plays with Malphite on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Ahri in team fights.
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Is Ahri better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no perfect companion for Ahri that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Malphite is a very typical ally for Ahri. By being on the same team as Ahri, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Ahri and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Ahri. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Malphite allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Ahri and Malphite together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Ahri and Malphite synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Ahri players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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