Malphite with Azir
How to Synergize Malphite and Azir
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Malphite Azir Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Azir
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Azir
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 Azir Will Play
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Malphite Azir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Azir as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Azir helps Malphite perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Azir, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Azir does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Azir on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Azir does a decent job of protecting Malphite in team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Azir
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Azir?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malphite that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Azir is a very typical companion for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 50.7%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Malphite and Azir that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players should be careful when finding Azir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Malphite players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malphite and Azir together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Azir ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Malphite in order to work well with Azir during both the lane 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Malphite and Azir synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Azir than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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