Malphite with Ziggs
How to Synergize Malphite and Ziggs
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Malphite Ziggs Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Malphite Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ziggs helps Malphite perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite is paired with Ziggs, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Ziggs helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played alongside Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Malphite plays with Ziggs on the same team, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Malphite in team fights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no perfect companion for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Ziggs is a not very good teammate for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 47.7%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Malphite and Ziggs that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Ziggs has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means Malphite players need to be careful when enlisting Ziggs allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Malphite and Ziggs together, you may not be providing your side much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Ziggs teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 work well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Malphite and Ziggs synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Malphite combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Ziggs than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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