Malphite with Bard
How to Synergize Malphite and Bard
based on 3,908 Malphite with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Bard
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Bard
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 Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Malphite Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Bard, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Bard on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Malphite in team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Malphite that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Bard is a very typical ally for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Malphite and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players should be very careful when finding Bard allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Malphite players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Malphite and Bard together, you may not be granting your other allies much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malphite in order to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Malphite and Bard synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, 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 builds we have analyed for Malphite and Bard pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Bard with Malphite are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.