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.
If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
The Malphite Evelynn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Evelynn, 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 Evelynn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Evelynn helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Evelynn, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Evelynn supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Evelynn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Evelynn.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Evelynn on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Evelynn does a poor job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Evelynn is a not very good companion for Malphite. By locking into the same side as Malphite, she drops their win rate by -1.5% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Malphite and Evelynn that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Evelynn has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you should be very careful when finding Evelynn teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Malphite players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Malphite and Evelynn together, you may not be giving your side enough attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Evelynn ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Malphite to work well with Evelynn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Malphite and Evelynn synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Evelynn than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Evelynn with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should use 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 combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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