Annie with Malphite
How to Synergize Annie and Malphite
based on 2,136 Annie with Malphite pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Annie Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Annie with Malphite
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malphite helps Annie perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Malphite, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Malphite does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Malphite on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Annie during teamfights.
Synergies between Annie and Malphite
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Is Annie better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Annie that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Malphite is a very typical ally for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 48.3%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Annie and Malphite that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when arranging Malphite comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Annie players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Annie and Malphite together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to work well with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Annie and Malphite synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Malphite than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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