Malphite with Poppy
How to Synergize Malphite and Poppy
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Malphite Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Malphite Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Poppy helps Malphite perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite plays on the same team as Poppy, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This may indicate that Poppy supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Poppy on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Poppy does a decent job of covering Malphite during team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Poppy
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no top companion for Malphite that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Poppy is a relatively poor ally for Malphite. By being on the same side as Malphite, she lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Malphite and Poppy that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Poppy has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players need to be very careful when lining up Poppy comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Malphite and Poppy together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malphite to work well with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Malphite and Poppy synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Poppy than with most other common builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
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