Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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 Xayah Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xayah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Malphite. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malphite helps Xayah perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah is paired with Malphite, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Malphite provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played alongside Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Malphite on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Xayah during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, Malphite is a very typical teammate for Xayah. By being on the same side as Xayah, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 48.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Xayah and Malphite that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Xayah. That means Xayah players don't need to be cautious when finding Malphite comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Xayah and Malphite together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Xayah in order to work well with Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Xayah and Malphite synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Rapid Firecannon, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing alongside Malphite with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Malphite with Xayah are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.