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 Rell synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rell, 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 Rell. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rell helps Malphite perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite plays on the same team as Rell, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Rell provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Rell on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rell. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rell.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Rell on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Rell does a poor job of covering Malphite during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Malphite that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Rell is a below average teammate for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, she drops their win rate by -1.7% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Malphite and Rell that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rell has a lower difficulty than Malphite. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Rell teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Malphite and Rell together, you may not be granting your other allies much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rell ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Malphite in order to work well with Rell during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Malphite and Rell synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rell than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Rell with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Malphite players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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