Graves with Malphite
How to Synergize Graves and Malphite
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Graves Malphite Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Graves with Malphite
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malphite helps Graves perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Malphite, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Malphite helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Malphite on the same side, 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 Graves plays with Malphite on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no top synergy for Graves that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Malphite is a pretty good companion for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 52.0%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Graves and Malphite that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Malphite has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be careful when finding Malphite comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Graves players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Malphite together, you probably will not be providing your team enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Graves to pair well with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Graves and Malphite synergy build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 52.0% helping carry Malphite with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Malphite with Graves are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.