Malphite with Master Yi
How to Synergize Malphite and Master Yi
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Malphite Master Yi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Malphite Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Master Yi helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Master Yi, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Master Yi does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Master Yi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Master Yi.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Master Yi on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of protecting Malphite during team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no ideal companion for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Master Yi is a pretty good ally for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 52.6%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Malphite and Master Yi that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Master Yi has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you should be cautious when lining up Master Yi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Malphite and Master Yi together, you may not be granting your other teammates much magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Master Yi ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to pair well with Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Malphite and Master Yi synergy build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Hollow Radiance. When Malphite incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Master Yi than with most other common builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Master Yi with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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 combinations players chose for Malphite and Master Yi pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Master Yi with Malphite are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.