Malphite with Rengar
How to Synergize Malphite and Rengar
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Malphite Rengar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Rengar
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Rengar
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 Rengar Will Play
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
Malphite Rengar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rengar as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Rengar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rengar, 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 Rengar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rengar helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Rengar, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Rengar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played together with Rengar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rengar.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Rengar on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rengar does a decent job of protecting Malphite during teamfights.
Synergies between Malphite and Rengar
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Rengar?
There is no one best synergy for Malphite that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Rengar is a relatively poor ally for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 48.0%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Malphite and Rengar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Rengar has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players should be very careful when enlisting Rengar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Malphite and Rengar together, you may not be providing your team much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Rengar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Malphite in order to pair well with Rengar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Malphite and Rengar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Malphite bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Rengar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rengar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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 picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Rengar with Malphite are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.