Viktor with Malphite
How to Synergize Viktor and Malphite
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Viktor Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Malphite
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a large worsening in his 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 Viktor perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor tries to synergize with Malphite, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Malphite helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Malphite on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Viktor in teamfights.
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no top champion pairing for Viktor that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Malphite is a decent teammate for Viktor. By locking into the same team as Viktor, he improves their win rate by 2.0% to 52.2%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Viktor and Malphite that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Malphite teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Viktor players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Viktor and Malphite together, you probably will not be giving your team much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Malphite teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to synergize with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Viktor and Malphite synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other typical builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 52.2% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Viktor players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Viktor and Malphite pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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