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.
The Malphite Lillia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lillia, 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 Lillia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lillia helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Lillia, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Lillia does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Lillia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lillia.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Lillia on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Lillia does a decent job of covering Malphite during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malphite that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Lillia is a superb teammate for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, she increases their win rate by 5.4% to 55.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong bond between Malphite and Lillia that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Lillia has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players must be cautious when arranging Lillia teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Malphite and Lillia together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Lillia teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to work well with Lillia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Malphite and Lillia synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Frozen Heart. When Malphite bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Lillia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 55.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lillia with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 runes players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.5% winrate overall.
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