Zed with Malphite
How to Synergize Zed and Malphite
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Zed Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Zed with Malphite
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed 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 fall shows that Malphite helps Zed perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Malphite, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Malphite supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malphite.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Malphite on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Malphite
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Is Zed better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no top champion pairing for Zed that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Malphite is a relatively poor teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 47.0%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Zed and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be cautious when finding Malphite comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Zed players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Zed and Malphite together, you will not be granting your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Zed in order to work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Zed and Malphite synergy build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Zed and Malphite pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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