Poppy with Malphite
How to Synergize Poppy and Malphite
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Poppy Malphite Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Malphite
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malphite helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy is paired with Malphite, she observes a little drop in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Malphite does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Poppy 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 Poppy plays with Malphite on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Malphite does a decent job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Malphite
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no ideal companion for Poppy that will always be her best teammate. However, Malphite is a relatively poor companion for Poppy. By playing on the same side as Poppy, he drops their win rate by -2.1% to 47.6%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Poppy and Malphite that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Malphite allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Poppy players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Poppy and Malphite together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malphite ally, you need to focus on increasing your 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
To truly master Poppy in order to work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Poppy and Malphite synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with many other common item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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