Malphite vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Malphite
based on 1,698 Malphite vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Malphite vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Malphite in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Malphite versus Lissandra matchup statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lissandra..
Malphite often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malphite and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Malphite or Lissandra?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malphite usually wins when facing off against Lissandra, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Malphite makes a good counter for Lissandra.
While Malphite does have a higher win rate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Malphite also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Malphite into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Malphite has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Lissandra matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Malphite is a decent counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malphite against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Lissandra. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Malphite versus Lissandra build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Malphite used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Lissandra than with many other common builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Lissandra as Malphite, you 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 combinations players picked for Malphite vs Lissandra counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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