Naafiri with Malphite
How to Synergize Naafiri and Malphite
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Naafiri Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Malphite
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Advice to Understand How Malphite Will Play
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.
Naafiri Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malphite helps Naafiri perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Malphite, they sees a little increase in their full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malphite provides protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Malphite.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Malphite on the same side, they on average takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Naafiri in team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no ideal ally for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their #1 synergy. However, Malphite is a below average companion for Naafiri. By locking into the same team as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Naafiri and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malphite has a lower difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players don't need to be careful when arranging Malphite teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Naafiri players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Naafiri and Malphite together, you probably will not be providing your team much magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Malphite ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to work well with Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Naafiri and Malphite synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Malphite with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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