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Malphite champion portrait

Malphite Build

Mid Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 12,188 gamesUpdated

49.7%win rate0.6%pick18.7%ban

Who counters Malphite

How to build Malphite

Armored Advance→Malignance→Shadowflame→Stormsurge

Armored Advance → Malignance → Shadowflame → Stormsurge

53.3% win rate 14% of games 1,035 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind35% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite49%
Skills
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Seismic Shard
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Thunderclap
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Ground Slam
89101213
Unstoppable Force
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Malphite build →
49.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 51.2% over 28,845 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.7% over 12,188 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.1%at Emerald+
0.6%pick rate
18.7%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 2 last patch
51.8%under 22 min
49.4%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.

Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitM MalphitevsZiggs champion portraitM Ziggs
4 / 0 / 3

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Malignance

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWQEQRQWQER
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitM MalphitevsZed champion portraitM Zed
4 / 9 / 12

Build

Armored Advance|Thornmail→Frozen Heart→Kaenic Rookern

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

WQEWWRQWQWRQQEERE
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitM MalphitevsZed champion portraitM Zed
6 / 7 / 10

Build

Armored Advance|Sunfire Aegis→Thornmail→Jak'Sho, The Protean→Kaenic Rookern

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWEQQRWQEQRWWWERE

Runes

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

Most popular 50.3% win rate · 35% of games · 3,743 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 47.7% win rate · 20% of games · 2,123 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite49%50.1%6,232 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport47%49.4%5,954 games

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

Boots
Armored Advance36%Spellslinger's Shoes33%Chainlaced Crushers22%
Armored Advance most often · 53.0% win rate

Malphite build

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

  1. Malignance1st
  2. Stormsurge2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path55.0% win rate416 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Malphite →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 12,396 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
35% · 53.2% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
33% · 50.9% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
22% · 45.8% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
6% · 48.6% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 30.6% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 45.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Malignance›Stormsurge+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 43.3% win rate · 508 games
  2. Malignance+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 39.6% win rate · 316 games
  3. Malignance›Stormsurge›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 55.3% win rate · 244 games
  4. Stormsurge›Malignance+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 46.6% win rate · 219 games
  5. Sunfire Aegis›Thornmail+Armored Advance1% of games · 45.1% win rate · 173 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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