Malphite with K'Sante
How to Synergize Malphite and K'Sante
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Malphite K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Malphite with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Malphite K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that K'Sante helps Malphite perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to K'Sante, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that K'Sante supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside K'Sante 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 K'Sante.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with K'Sante on the same side, he on average receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that K'Sante does a decent job of protecting Malphite during team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and K'Sante
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Is Malphite better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no one best synergy for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, K'Sante is a terrible companion for Malphite. By being on the same side as Malphite, they decreases their win rate by -6.1% to 44.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Malphite and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you need to be very careful when finding K'Sante teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Malphite and K'Sante together, you probably will not be providing your side much AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your K'Sante teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malphite to pair well with K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Malphite and K'Sante synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Malphite included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside K'Sante than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 44.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to K'Sante with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.0% winrate overall.
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