Malphite with Nautilus
How to Synergize Malphite and Nautilus
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Malphite Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Nautilus
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 Nautilus Will Play
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Malphite Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nautilus helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Nautilus, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Nautilus provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Nautilus on the same side, 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 Nautilus.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Nautilus on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Nautilus
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malphite that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Nautilus is a below average companion for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Malphite and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players need to be careful when finding Nautilus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Malphite and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Malphite and Nautilus synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Malphite incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Nautilus than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Malphite players 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 composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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