Malphite with Syndra
How to Synergize Malphite and Syndra
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Malphite Syndra Synergy Summary
Best Malphite vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Syndra
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Syndra
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 Syndra Will Play
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Malphite Syndra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Syndra as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Syndra helps Malphite perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Syndra, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Syndra does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Syndra 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 Syndra.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Syndra on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Syndra does a poor job of covering Malphite during team fights.
Synergies between Malphite and Syndra
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Syndra?
There is no one best companion for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Syndra is a below average ally for Malphite. By being on the same team as Malphite, she drops their win rate by -1.6% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Malphite and Syndra that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Syndra has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means Malphite players must be very careful when lining up Syndra allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Malphite and Syndra together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Syndra ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 to work well with Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Malphite and Syndra synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Syndra than with most other typical builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Syndra with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing 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 rune combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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