Malphite with Rakan
How to Synergize Malphite and Rakan
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Malphite Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Malphite Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Rakan, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Rakan on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Rakan does a poor job of protecting Malphite in team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Rakan
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Rakan is a very typical teammate for Malphite. By being on the same team as Malphite, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Malphite and Rakan that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you must be very careful when finding Rakan teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Malphite and Rakan together, you may not be providing your side very much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Malphite and Rakan synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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