Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
The Udyr 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, Udyr sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malphite helps Udyr perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Udyr is an ally to Malphite, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Malphite helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played together with Malphite on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Moreover, when Udyr plays with Malphite on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Udyr in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Udyr that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Malphite is a good ally for Udyr. By locking into the same side as Udyr, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Udyr and Malphite that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Udyr. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Malphite allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Udyr and Malphite together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malphite teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Udyr to synergize with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Udyr and Malphite synergy build include Riftmaker, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Malphite than with many other typical builds. In fact, Udyr had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Udyr players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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