Caitlyn with Malphite
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Malphite
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Caitlyn Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Malphite
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malphite helps Caitlyn perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Malphite, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Malphite supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Malphite.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Malphite on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malphite does a poor job of covering Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no one best synergy for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Malphite is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By being on the same team as Caitlyn, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.3%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Caitlyn and Malphite that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be careful when enlisting Malphite allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Caitlyn players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Caitlyn and Malphite together, you probably will not be granting your team very much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Malphite ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to synergize with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Caitlyn and Malphite synergy build include Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Caitlyn combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Malphite than with most other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Malphite with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Caitlyn players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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