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 Seraphine synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Seraphine, 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 Seraphine. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Seraphine helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite is paired with Seraphine, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could indicate that Seraphine supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Seraphine on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Seraphine. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Seraphine.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Seraphine on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Seraphine does a poor job of covering Malphite in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Seraphine is a very typical ally for Malphite. By being on the same side as Malphite, she decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 49.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Malphite and Seraphine that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Seraphine has a lower difficulty than Malphite. That means Malphite players don't need to be careful when lining up Seraphine allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Malphite players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Malphite and Seraphine together, you probably will not be providing your side much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Seraphine ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Malphite in order to synergize with Seraphine during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Malphite and Seraphine synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Malphite included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Seraphine than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Seraphine with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Malphite players should take 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Seraphine with Malphite are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.