Malphite with Aphelios
How to Synergize Malphite and Aphelios
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Malphite Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Malphite Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Aphelios, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Aphelios on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top champion pairing for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Aphelios is a very typical teammate for Malphite. By locking into the same side as Malphite, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Malphite and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players must be careful when finding Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Malphite players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Malphite and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malphite to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Malphite and Aphelios synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 49.7% helping carry Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use 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 Malphite and Aphelios pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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