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Malphite Build

Top God Tier

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 77,483 gamesUpdated

51.5%win rate3.5%pick18.7%ban

Who counters Malphite

Every Top matchup for Malphite, ranked →

How to build Malphite

Plated Steelcaps→Sunfire Aegis→Frozen Heart→Thornmail

Plated Steelcaps → Sunfire Aegis → Frozen Heart → Thornmail

58.0% win rate 17% of games 7,949 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind36% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport71%
Skills
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Seismic Shard
14578
Thunderclap
314151718
Ground Slam
29101213
Unstoppable Force
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Malphite build →
51.5%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.8% over 189,901 gamesPatch 26.21: 51.5% over 77,483 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.5%at Emerald+
3.5%pick rate
18.7%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
51.7%under 22 min
50.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitT MalphitevsIrelia champion portraitT Irelia
6 / 5 / 5

Build

Mercury's Treads|Frozen Heart→Thornmail

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

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Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitT MalphitevsDarius champion portraitT Darius
6 / 6 / 7

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Malignance→Stormsurge→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQERWWEEREW
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitT MalphitevsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
4 / 5 / 17

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Malignance→Stormsurge→Horizon Focus→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWEEREE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 51.4% win rate · 36% of games · 26,980 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 52.0% win rate · 18% of games · 13,314 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashConditioningOvergrowth
SorceryManaflow BandTranscendence
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport71%51.1%56,871 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite26%52.2%21,130 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps60%Mercury's Treads24%Sorcerer's Shoes11%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 53.2% win rate

Malphite build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Sunfire Aegis1st
  2. Thornmail2nd
  3. Frozen Heart3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path57.7% win rate2,091 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Malphite →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 78,305 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
58% · 53.4% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
24% · 49.7% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
11% · 51.1% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 38.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
2% · 51.6% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 42.9% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Sunfire Aegis›Thornmail+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 47.4% win rate · 2,700 games
  2. Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 43.4% win rate · 2,267 games
  3. Sunfire Aegis›Thornmail›Frozen Heart+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 57.5% win rate · 1,503 games
  4. Thornmail›Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 48.1% win rate · 1,455 games
  5. Sunfire Aegis›Frozen Heart+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 52.7% win rate · 1,276 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Malphite against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Malphite's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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