Malphite with Yasuo
How to Synergize Malphite and Yasuo
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Malphite Yasuo Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Malphite Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yasuo helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Yasuo, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Yasuo does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Yasuo on the same side, 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 Yasuo.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Yasuo on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Malphite in team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Yasuo
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no top ally for Malphite that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a pretty good companion for Malphite. By being on the same side as Malphite, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 51.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Malphite and Yasuo that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Yasuo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Malphite players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malphite and Yasuo together, you may not be granting your side enough magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Malphite to pair well with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Malphite and Yasuo synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yasuo with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Malphite players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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