Malphite with Neeko
How to Synergize Malphite and Neeko
based on 3,780 Malphite with Neeko pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Neeko Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Neeko Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Malphite Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Neeko helps Malphite perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Neeko, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Neeko supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Neeko on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Neeko.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Neeko on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Neeko does a poor job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Neeko
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Malphite that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Neeko is a very typical ally for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 49.3%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Malphite and Neeko that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Neeko has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you should be careful when arranging Neeko allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malphite and Neeko together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Neeko ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malphite to pair well with Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Malphite and Neeko synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Neeko than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Neeko with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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