Malphite with Janna
How to Synergize Malphite and Janna
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Malphite Janna Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Janna
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Malphite Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Janna helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Janna, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Janna supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Janna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Janna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Janna.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Janna on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Janna does a decent job of protecting Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Janna
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Janna?
There is no ideal synergy for Malphite that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Janna is a pretty good companion for Malphite. By locking into the same side as Malphite, she improves their win rate by 1.9% to 52.0%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Malphite and Janna that results in them performing better together than alone.
Janna has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Janna teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Malphite players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Malphite and Janna together, you may not be giving your side very much AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Janna ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 to synergize with Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Malphite and Janna synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Janna than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Janna with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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