Malphite with Lucian
How to Synergize Malphite and Lucian
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Malphite Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Malphite Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lucian 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 Lucian, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Lucian helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Lucian 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 alongside Lucian.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Lucian on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Malphite during team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Lucian is a very typical ally for Malphite. By being on the same side as Malphite, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 49.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Malphite and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players should be careful when finding Lucian allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Malphite players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Malphite and Lucian together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Malphite and Lucian synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Lucian than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Malphite and Lucian pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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