Malphite with Karthus
How to Synergize Malphite and Karthus
based on 1,762 Malphite with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Malphite Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karthus helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Karthus, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Karthus supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Karthus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karthus.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Karthus on the same team, he on average receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Malphite in teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Karthus
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no ideal ally for Malphite that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Karthus is a not very good ally for Malphite. By locking into the same side as Malphite, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Malphite and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players must be cautious when lining up Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malphite and Karthus together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to pair well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Malphite and Karthus synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Karthus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karthus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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