Malphite with Gragas
How to Synergize Malphite and Gragas
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Malphite Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Malphite Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Malphite perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite plays on the same team as Gragas, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Gragas provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Malphite in team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top ally for Malphite that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Gragas is a below average ally for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.8%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Malphite and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you need to be cautious when finding Gragas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Malphite players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Malphite and Gragas together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to pair well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Malphite and Gragas synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Malphite players 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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