Malphite vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Malphite
based on 1,060 Malphite vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Malphite vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Malphite in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Malphite versus Elise counter stats that can help us explain the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Elise..
Malphite typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Elise. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malphite and Elise
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Who is Better, Malphite or Elise?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malphite usually wins when taking on Elise, with a 54.2% win rate. Therefore, Malphite makes a great counter for Elise.
While Malphite does have a much higher winrate than Elise, when they face off with one another, Malphite also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Malphite into Elise.
Additionally, Malphite has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Elise matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Malphite is a great counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malphite against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malphite in order to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite most often accumulates much more CS compared to Elise. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Malphite versus Elise build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Elise than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 54.2% battling Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Elise as Malphite, Malphite players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Malphite vs Elise counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.2% winrate overall.
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