Gwen with Malphite
How to Synergize Gwen and Malphite
based on 1,233 Gwen with Malphite pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Malphite
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malphite helps Gwen perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is an ally to Malphite, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change could signal that Malphite does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played alongside Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Malphite on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Gwen in teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Malphite
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no ideal ally for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Malphite is a good teammate for Gwen. By locking into the same team as Gwen, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 49.6%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Gwen and Malphite that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Gwen. That means Gwen players don't need to be cautious when arranging Malphite comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Gwen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Gwen and Malphite together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Gwen to synergize with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Gwen and Malphite synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Gwen bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Malphite than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malphite with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Gwen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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