Lux with Malphite
How to Synergize Lux and Malphite
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Lux Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Lux with Malphite
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malphite helps Lux perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lux is an ally to Malphite, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Malphite supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played together with Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malphite.
Moreover, when Lux plays with Malphite on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Lux in team fights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Lux that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Malphite is a very typical ally for Lux. By being on the same team as Lux, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Lux and Malphite that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Lux. That means Lux players don't need to be careful when enlisting Malphite allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Lux players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Lux and Malphite together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Lux in order to synergize with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Lux and Malphite synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Shadowflame. When Lux bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Lux players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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