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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Malphite versus Bel'Veth matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bel'Veth’s ratio of NaN, showing that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bel'Veth..
Malphite often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Bel'Veth. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malphite usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Bel'Veth, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Malphite makes an ok counter to Bel'Veth.
While Malphite does have a lower winrate compared to Bel'Veth, when on opposite teams, Malphite also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Malphite into Bel'Veth.
Additionally, Malphite has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bel'Veth. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Bel'Veth matchups, Bel'Veth is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Malphite is a somewhat poor counter to Bel'Veth. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Malphite against Bel'Veth.
If you would like to truly master Malphite to counter Bel'Veth during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite most often picks up much more CS compared to Bel'Veth. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Malphite versus Bel'Veth build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Bel'Veth than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 49.3% battling Bel'Veth with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Bel'Veth as Malphite, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Malphite vs Bel'Veth counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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