Malphite vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Malphite
based on 1,358 Malphite vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Cassiopeia
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.
Advice to Win Against Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Malphite vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Malphite in LoL
The stats shown here feature several valuable Malphite against Cassiopeia counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia..
Malphite often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malphite and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Malphite or Cassiopeia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malphite usually loses when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Malphite makes a bad counter to Cassiopeia.
While Malphite does have a lower win rate compared to Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Malphite also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Malphite into Cassiopeia.
Additionally, Malphite also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Malphite is a somewhat poor counter to Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malphite against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Cassiopeia. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Malphite versus Cassiopeia build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Cassiopeia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Cassiopeia as Malphite, Malphite players should use 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 we have analyed for Malphite vs Cassiopeia counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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