K'Sante with Malphite
How to Synergize K'Sante and Malphite
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K'Sante Malphite Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Malphite
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Malphite
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malphite helps K'Sante perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante is an ally to Malphite, they sees a little increase in their complete damage output. This could indicate that Malphite provides cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Additionally, when K'Sante plays with Malphite on the same team, they typically receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering K'Sante during team fights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Malphite
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no perfect ally for K'Sante that will always be their top synergy. However, overall, Malphite is a terrible companion for K'Sante. By locking into the same side as K'Sante, he decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 44.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between K'Sante and Malphite that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means K'Sante players don't need to be careful when lining up Malphite teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping K'Sante and Malphite together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 K'Sante in order to pair well with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your K'Sante and Malphite synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 44.0% when playing alongside Malphite with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, K'Sante players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.0% win rate overall.
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