Malphite with Nidalee
How to Synergize Malphite and Nidalee
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Malphite Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Malphite Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Nidalee, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Nidalee doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Nidalee on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Nidalee does a poor job of protecting Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Nidalee
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no top companion for Malphite that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Nidalee is a terrible companion for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, she decreases their win rate by -7.2% to 42.9%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Malphite and Nidalee that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you should be very careful when arranging Nidalee allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Malphite players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malphite and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Malphite and Nidalee synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 42.9% when playing alongside Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest chance 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 runes players chose for Malphite and Nidalee pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.9% win rate overall.
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