Malphite with Ivern
How to Synergize Malphite and Ivern
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Malphite Ivern Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Ivern
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Ivern
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 Ivern Will Play
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
Malphite Ivern Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ivern as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Ivern synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ivern, 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 Ivern. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ivern helps Malphite perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is an ally to Ivern, he gets a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Ivern helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Ivern on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ivern. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ivern.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Ivern on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Ivern does a decent job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Ivern?
There is no top companion for Malphite that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Ivern is a good companion for Malphite. By locking into the same side as Malphite, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 52.5%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Malphite and Ivern that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Ivern has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Ivern comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Malphite players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Malphite and Ivern together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Ivern ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to work well with Ivern during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Malphite and Ivern synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Ivern than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite had an average winrate of 52.5% helping carry Ivern with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating 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 players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
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