Malphite with Darius
How to Synergize Malphite and Darius
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Malphite Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Darius
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Malphite Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Darius helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Darius, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Darius does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Darius.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Darius on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Darius does a decent job of protecting Malphite during teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Darius?
There is no top companion for Malphite that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Darius is a terrible companion for Malphite. By being on the same team as Malphite, he decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 46.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malphite and Darius that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Darius has a lower difficulty than Malphite. That means Malphite players don't need to be very careful when arranging Darius teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Malphite players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Malphite and Darius together, you may not be granting your side enough AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 truly master Malphite to work well with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Malphite and Darius synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Malphite bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Darius than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when playing alongside Darius with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Malphite players 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 players used for Malphite and Darius pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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