Malphite with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Malphite and Lee Sin
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Malphite Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Malphite Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lee Sin helps Malphite perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Lee Sin, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Lee Sin supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Lee Sin 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 synergisticly with Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Lee Sin on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Lee Sin does a poor job of protecting Malphite during team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Malphite that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Lee Sin is a relatively poor teammate for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Malphite and Lee Sin that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lee Sin has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players need to be careful when enlisting Lee Sin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Malphite and Lee Sin together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 work well with Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Malphite and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Lee Sin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malphite players should equip 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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