Garen with Malphite
How to Synergize Garen and Malphite
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Garen Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Garen with Malphite
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Garen in LoL
The Garen Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Garen sees a very large drop in his 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 Garen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Malphite, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Malphite supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Malphite on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Garen during team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Malphite
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Is Garen better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Garen that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Malphite is a very typical teammate for Garen. By being on the same team as Garen, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 48.3%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Garen and Malphite that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Malphite comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Garen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Garen and Malphite together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen to synergize with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Garen and Malphite synergy build include Trinity Force, Stridebreaker, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malphite with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Garen and Malphite pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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