Nami with Malphite
How to Synergize Nami and Malphite
based on 3,930 Nami with Malphite pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Nami with Malphite
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Nami in LoL
The Nami Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malphite helps Nami perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is an ally to Malphite, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malphite provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Malphite on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Nami during team fights.
Synergies between Nami and Malphite
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Is Nami better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nami that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Malphite is a very typical teammate for Nami. By locking into the same team as Nami, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 49.6%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Nami and Malphite that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Nami. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Malphite comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nami players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Nami and Malphite together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nami in order to work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Nami and Malphite synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami used at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Malphite than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing alongside Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nami and Malphite pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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