Malphite with Braum
How to Synergize Malphite and Braum
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Malphite Braum Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Braum
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Braum
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 Braum Will Play
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Malphite Braum Synergy Stats
How to Play with Braum as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Braum synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Braum, 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 Braum. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Braum helps Malphite perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is paired with Braum, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Braum provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Braum on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Braum.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Braum on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Braum does a decent job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Braum
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Braum?
There is no perfect synergy for Malphite that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Braum is a great teammate for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he improves their win rate by 3.1% to 53.2%. This demonstrates that there is a strong synergy between Malphite and Braum that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Braum has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you need to be careful when lining up Braum teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Malphite and Braum together, you may not be giving your side enough AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Braum ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Braum during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Malphite and Braum synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Malphite combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Braum than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when playing alongside Braum with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.2% winrate overall.
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