Malphite with Xayah
How to Synergize Malphite and Xayah
based on 2,326 Malphite with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Xayah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Malphite Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xayah helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is paired with Xayah, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Xayah helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Xayah 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 alongside Xayah.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Xayah on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Xayah does a poor job of covering Malphite in team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no ideal companion for Malphite that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Xayah is a below average teammate for Malphite. By playing on the same side as Malphite, she lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 48.2%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Malphite and Xayah that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xayah has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means Malphite players should be careful when lining up Xayah comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Malphite and Xayah together, you will not be granting your side a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malphite in order to work well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Malphite and Xayah synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Xayah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 48.2% helping carry Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Malphite players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Malphite and Xayah pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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