Malphite with Alistar
How to Synergize Malphite and Alistar
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Malphite Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Malphite Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malphite sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Alistar, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Alistar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Alistar on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Alistar
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect ally for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Alistar is a very typical companion for Malphite. By playing on the same side as Malphite, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Malphite and Alistar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players must be careful when enlisting Alistar comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Malphite and Alistar together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to pair well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Malphite and Alistar synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Malphite players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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