Malphite with Garen
How to Synergize Malphite and Garen
based on 2,123 Malphite with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Garen
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Malphite Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Malphite perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Garen, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Garen does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Garen on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal ally for Malphite that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Garen is a relatively poor ally for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 48.3%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Malphite and Garen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you should be very careful when arranging Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Malphite players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Malphite and Garen together, you will not be providing your team enough magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 synergize with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Malphite and Garen synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Malphite players should take 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 runes players chose for Malphite and Garen pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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