Shaco with Malphite
How to Synergize Shaco and Malphite
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Shaco Malphite Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Malphite
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malphite helps Shaco perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco is an ally to Malphite, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Malphite supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malphite.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Malphite on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Malphite does a poor job of covering Shaco during team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Malphite
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no top companion for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Malphite is a very typical ally for Shaco. By being on the same side as Shaco, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Shaco and Malphite that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when lining up Malphite teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Shaco players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Shaco and Malphite together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malphite teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco to synergize with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Shaco and Malphite synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Malphite than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Malphite with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Shaco players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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