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.
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
The Malphite Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vayne helps Malphite perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Vayne, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Vayne doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Vayne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vayne. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vayne.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Vayne on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Vayne does a decent job of covering Malphite during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Malphite that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Vayne is a pretty good companion for Malphite. By playing on the same team as Malphite, she raises their win rate by 1.0% to 51.1%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Malphite and Vayne that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Vayne has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you should be careful when enlisting Vayne comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Malphite and Vayne together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vayne ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Malphite in order to synergize with Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Malphite and Vayne synergy build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Hollow Radiance. When Malphite used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Vayne than with most other common builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vayne with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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