Aphelios with Malphite
How to Synergize Aphelios and Malphite
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Aphelios Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Malphite
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his 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 Aphelios perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Malphite, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Malphite provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Malphite on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Malphite is a decent companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Aphelios and Malphite that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Malphite allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Aphelios and Malphite together, you will not be giving your side a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Malphite ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Aphelios and Malphite synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Malphite than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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