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.
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
The Malphite Cassiopeia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cassiopeia, 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 Cassiopeia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cassiopeia helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite plays on the same team as Cassiopeia, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Cassiopeia does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Cassiopeia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Cassiopeia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Cassiopeia.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Cassiopeia on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Cassiopeia does a poor job of covering Malphite in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Malphite that will always be his top teammate. However, Cassiopeia is a very typical ally for Malphite. By being on the same side as Malphite, she improves their win rate by 0.1% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Malphite and Cassiopeia that results in them performing better together than alone.
Cassiopeia has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you need to be very careful when finding Cassiopeia allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Malphite and Cassiopeia together, you probably will not be providing your team enough attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Cassiopeia ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Malphite in order to pair well with Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Malphite and Cassiopeia synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Cassiopeia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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