Malphite with Swain
How to Synergize Malphite and Swain
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Malphite Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Swain
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Malphite Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite plays on the same team as Swain, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This may signal that Swain does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Swain on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Swain does a poor job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Malphite that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Swain is a good companion for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he increases their win rate by 1.6% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Malphite and Swain that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Malphite players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Malphite and Swain together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Malphite to work well with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Malphite and Swain synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Malphite combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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