Malphite with Trundle
How to Synergize Malphite and Trundle
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Malphite Trundle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Trundle
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Trundle
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 Trundle Will Play
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
Malphite Trundle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Trundle as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Trundle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Trundle, 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 Trundle. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Trundle helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Trundle, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Trundle does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Trundle on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Trundle.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Trundle on the same team, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Trundle does a decent job of covering Malphite in team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Trundle?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Malphite that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Trundle is a top-tier ally for Malphite. By being on the same team as Malphite, he increases their win rate by 3.2% to 53.3%. This signals that there is a very strong synergy between Malphite and Trundle that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Trundle has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you should be careful when lining up Trundle teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Malphite and Trundle together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Trundle ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malphite in order to pair well with Trundle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Malphite and Trundle synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Trundle than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 53.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Trundle with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Malphite players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
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