Malphite with Kassadin
How to Synergize Malphite and Kassadin
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Malphite Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Malphite Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Kassadin, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This may indicate that Kassadin does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Kassadin on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kassadin does a poor job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Malphite that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Kassadin is a below average ally for Malphite. By being on the same side as Malphite, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Malphite and Kassadin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players should be very careful when enlisting Kassadin teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Malphite and Kassadin together, you will not be granting your side very much sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malphite in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Malphite and Kassadin synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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