Rakan with Malphite
How to Synergize Rakan and Malphite
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Rakan Malphite Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Malphite
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Understand How Malphite Will Play
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.
Rakan Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malphite helps Rakan perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Malphite, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could signal that Malphite provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malphite.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Malphite on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Malphite
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no ideal synergy for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Malphite is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By being on the same side as Rakan, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 51.0%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Rakan and Malphite that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be very careful when lining up Malphite allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Rakan players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Malphite together, you will not be giving your other allies very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rakan in order to work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Rakan and Malphite synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Rakan incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malphite with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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