Malphite with Skarner
How to Synergize Malphite and Skarner
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Malphite Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Malphite Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Skarner helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite plays on the same team as Skarner, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Skarner provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Skarner 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 with Skarner.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Skarner on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Malphite during team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Skarner
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top ally for Malphite that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Skarner is a not very good companion for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 47.1%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Malphite and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you must be cautious when finding Skarner comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Malphite players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Malphite and Skarner together, you will not be giving your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malphite in order to work well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Malphite and Skarner synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 47.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take 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 players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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