Malphite with Gwen
How to Synergize Malphite and Gwen
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Malphite Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Malphite Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Gwen, he gets a noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Gwen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Gwen 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 with Gwen.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Gwen on the same team, he usually receives less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Gwen does a decent job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Malphite that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Gwen is a very typical companion for Malphite. By playing on the same side as Malphite, she decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 49.6%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Malphite and Gwen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means Malphite players need to be very careful when enlisting Gwen comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Malphite and Gwen together, you may not be providing your side much attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to synergize with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Malphite and Gwen synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gwen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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 used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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