Ziggs with Malphite
How to Synergize Ziggs and Malphite
based on 2,035 Ziggs with Malphite pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ziggs Malphite Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Malphite
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malphite helps Ziggs perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ziggs is paired with Malphite, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Malphite provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played together with Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Moreover, when Ziggs plays with Malphite on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Ziggs during team fights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Malphite
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no one best synergy for Ziggs that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Malphite is a very typical teammate for Ziggs. By locking into the same team as Ziggs, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 47.7%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Ziggs and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Malphite has a lower difficulty than Ziggs. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Malphite teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Ziggs and Malphite together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Malphite teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to pair well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Ziggs and Malphite synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Liandry's Torment. When Ziggs used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 47.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malphite with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Ziggs and Malphite pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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