Malphite with Orianna
How to Synergize Malphite and Orianna
based on 2,041 Malphite with Orianna pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Malphite Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Orianna, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change could signal that Orianna doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Orianna 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 Orianna.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Orianna on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Orianna does a decent job of protecting Malphite during team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Orianna
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Malphite that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Orianna is a not very good companion for Malphite. By locking into the same side as Malphite, she lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 47.5%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Malphite and Orianna that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you must be very careful when finding Orianna teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malphite and Orianna together, you may not be giving your side very much attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 to work well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather 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 best items to include in your Malphite and Orianna synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Orianna than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing alongside Orianna with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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