Malphite with Graves
How to Synergize Malphite and Graves
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Malphite Graves Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Graves
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Malphite Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is paired with Graves, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Graves does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Graves on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Malphite during team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Graves is a good ally for Malphite. By playing on the same side as Malphite, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 52.0%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Malphite and Graves that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Graves has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you should be cautious when arranging Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Malphite and Graves together, you will not be giving your side a lot of AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Malphite and Graves synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Thornmail. When Malphite included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Graves than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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