Kassadin with Malphite
How to Synergize Kassadin and Malphite
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Kassadin Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Malphite
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malphite helps Kassadin perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin tries to synergize with Malphite, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Malphite supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played alongside Malphite on the same team, 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 Kassadin plays with Malphite on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Kassadin in teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Malphite is a not very good teammate for Kassadin. By locking into the same side as Kassadin, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Kassadin and Malphite that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Malphite comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Kassadin and Malphite together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to pair well with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Kassadin and Malphite synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Kassadin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Malphite than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Kassadin and Malphite pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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