Malphite with Viktor
How to Synergize Malphite and Viktor
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Malphite Viktor Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Malphite Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Viktor helps Malphite perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malphite plays on the same team as Viktor, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Viktor doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Viktor 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 Viktor.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Viktor on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Viktor does a poor job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no perfect companion for Malphite that will always be his best ally. However, Viktor is a pretty good companion for Malphite. By playing on the same side as Malphite, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 52.2%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Malphite and Viktor that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Viktor has a much greater difficulty compared to Malphite. That means you must be very careful when lining up Viktor comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Malphite and Viktor together, you may not be giving your team enough AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Viktor ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Malphite and Viktor synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Viktor than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 52.2% helping carry Viktor with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Viktor with Malphite are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.