Malphite with Sona
How to Synergize Malphite and Sona
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Malphite Sona Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Sona
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Malphite Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sona helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is paired with Sona, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Sona supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Sona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Sona on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Sona does a decent job of protecting Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Sona
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Sona?
There is no one best companion for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Sona is a decent teammate for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, she increases their win rate by 1.4% to 51.5%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Malphite and Sona that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Sona has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means Malphite players must be cautious when lining up Sona allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Malphite players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Malphite and Sona together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Sona ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to pair well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Malphite and Sona synergy build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Thornmail. When Malphite incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Sona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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