Gragas with Malphite
How to Synergize Gragas and Malphite
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Gragas Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Malphite
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malphite helps Gragas perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Malphite, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Malphite doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malphite.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Malphite on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Gragas in team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gragas that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Malphite is a very typical ally for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Gragas and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when finding Malphite teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Gragas and Malphite together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to synergize with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Gragas and Malphite synergy build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malphite with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Gragas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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