Rammus with Malphite
How to Synergize Rammus and Malphite
based on 2,283 Rammus with Malphite pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Malphite Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Malphite Counter Build
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Core Rammus Items
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Malphite
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rammus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malphite helps Rammus perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rammus is paired with Malphite, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Malphite doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played together with Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malphite.
Additionally, when Rammus plays with Malphite on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Rammus in team fights.
Synergies between Rammus and Malphite
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no top champion pairing for Rammus that will always be his best ally. However, Malphite is a very typical ally for Rammus. By locking into the same team as Rammus, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Rammus and Malphite that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Rammus. That means Rammus players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Malphite comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Rammus and Malphite together, you may not be giving your side much attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Malphite teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rammus in order to synergize with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Rammus and Malphite synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Force of Nature. When Rammus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rammus had an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Malphite with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Rammus players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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