Leona with Malphite
How to Synergize Leona and Malphite
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Leona Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Leona with Malphite
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 drop shows that Malphite helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is paired with Malphite, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Malphite supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona 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 with Malphite.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Malphite on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no ideal ally for Leona that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Malphite is a very typical teammate for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 51.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Leona and Malphite that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Malphite has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players don't need to be careful when enlisting Malphite comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Leona and Malphite together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Malphite teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona to work well with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Leona and Malphite synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Malphite than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when playing alongside Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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