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.
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
The Malphite Aurelion Sol synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aurelion Sol, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malphite sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aurelion Sol. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aurelion Sol helps Malphite perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Aurelion Sol, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Aurelion Sol doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Aurelion Sol on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aurelion Sol.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Aurelion Sol on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Aurelion Sol does a poor job of protecting Malphite during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Aurelion Sol is a very typical teammate for Malphite. By being on the same team as Malphite, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 50.9%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Malphite and Aurelion Sol that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Aurelion Sol has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players should be cautious when finding Aurelion Sol teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Malphite and Aurelion Sol together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Aurelion Sol ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to synergize with Aurelion Sol during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Malphite and Aurelion Sol synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Aurelion Sol than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Aurelion Sol with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you 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 combinations players picked for Malphite and Aurelion Sol pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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