Malphite with Jax
How to Synergize Malphite and Jax
based on 5,941 Malphite with Jax pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malphite Jax Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Jax
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Malphite Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jax helps Malphite perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is an ally to Jax, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Jax does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Jax on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jax.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Jax on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Jax does a decent job of covering Malphite in team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Jax
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Jax?
There is no one best synergy for Malphite that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Jax is a good companion for Malphite. By playing on the same side as Malphite, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Malphite and Jax that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Jax has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you need to be careful when lining up Jax allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Malphite players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Malphite and Jax together, you may not be providing your other allies much AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jax ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malphite to pair well with Jax during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Malphite and Jax synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Jax than with most other common item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Jax with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Malphite players 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 sets that we analyzed for Malphite and Jax pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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