Lucian with Malphite
How to Synergize Lucian and Malphite
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Lucian Malphite Synergy Summary
Best Lucian vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Malphite
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malphite helps Lucian perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian is paired with Malphite, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Malphite provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malphite.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Malphite on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Lucian during teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no perfect companion for Lucian that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Malphite is a very typical ally for Lucian. By locking into the same team as Lucian, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 49.3%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Lucian and Malphite that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Malphite teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Lucian players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Lucian and Malphite together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Malphite ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Lucian in order to pair well with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Lucian and Malphite synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Malphite than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Lucian players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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