Malphite with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Malphite and Jarvan IV
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Malphite Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Malphite Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jarvan IV helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Jarvan IV, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Jarvan IV helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Jarvan IV on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jarvan IV.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Jarvan IV on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Jarvan IV does a decent job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no ideal companion for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Jarvan IV is a very typical companion for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Malphite and Jarvan IV that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Jarvan IV has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you must be careful when finding Jarvan IV allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Malphite and Jarvan IV together, you probably will not be granting your team much AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jarvan IV teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Malphite in order to work well with Jarvan IV during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Malphite and Jarvan IV synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite included at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Jarvan IV than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jarvan IV with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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