Malphite with Zed
How to Synergize Malphite and Zed
based on 4,754 Malphite with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Zed Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Zed
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Malphite Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Malphite perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is paired with Zed, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zed provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Zed on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Zed
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect synergy for Malphite that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Zed is a very bad ally for Malphite. By locking into the same side as Malphite, he drops their win rate by -3.1% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Malphite and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players must be careful when lining up Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malphite players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Malphite and Zed together, you will not be giving your other teammates much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Malphite and Zed synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Malphite players should take 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 players used for Malphite and Zed pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
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