Trundle with Malphite
How to Synergize Trundle and Malphite
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Trundle Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Trundle and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Trundle with Malphite
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Trundle in LoL
The Trundle 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, Trundle sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malphite helps Trundle perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Trundle plays on the same team as Malphite, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Malphite provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Trundle is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malphite.
Additionally, when Trundle plays with Malphite on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Trundle in team fights.
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Is Trundle better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Trundle that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Malphite is a very typical ally for Trundle. By playing on the same side as Trundle, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 53.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Trundle and Malphite that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Trundle. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Malphite comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Trundle players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Trundle and Malphite together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Trundle in order to pair well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Trundle and Malphite synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Blade of The Ruined King, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Trundle had an average win rate of 53.3% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Trundle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Malphite with Trundle are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.