Warwick with Malphite
How to Synergize Warwick and Malphite
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Warwick Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Malphite
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malphite helps Warwick perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Warwick tries to synergize with Malphite, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Malphite supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Malphite.
Additionally, when Warwick plays with Malphite on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Warwick in teamfights.
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no top companion for Warwick that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Malphite is a very typical ally for Warwick. By being on the same side as Warwick, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Warwick and Malphite that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Malphite has a lower difficulty than Warwick. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Malphite allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Warwick and Malphite together, you may not be giving your side very much magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Warwick in order to pair well with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Warwick and Malphite synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Malphite than with many other common item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Warwick players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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