Malphite with Riven
How to Synergize Malphite and Riven
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Malphite Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Riven
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Malphite Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Riven, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Riven does not help 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 Riven on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Riven on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Malphite in teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best ally for Malphite that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a relatively poor companion for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, she drops their win rate by -1.6% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Malphite and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players need to be careful when lining up Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Malphite and Riven together, you may not be providing your team very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Malphite in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Malphite and Riven synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malphite players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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