Malphite with Katarina
How to Synergize Malphite and Katarina
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Malphite Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Malphite Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Katarina, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Katarina does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Katarina 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 Katarina.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Malphite during team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no one best synergy for Malphite that will always be his best teammate. However, Katarina is a below average ally for Malphite. By being on the same team as Malphite, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 48.2%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Malphite and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players must be cautious when finding Katarina allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Malphite players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Malphite and Katarina together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Malphite and Katarina synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 48.2% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing 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 runes players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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