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Malphite Build

Support Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 15,425 gamesUpdated

47.2%win rate0.7%pick18.7%ban

Who counters Malphite

Every Support matchup for Malphite, ranked →

How to build Malphite

Sorcerer's Shoes→Malignance→Stormsurge→Shadowflame

Sorcerer's Shoes → Malignance → Stormsurge → Shadowflame

52.7% win rate 15% of games 1,073 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind30% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite80%
Skills
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Seismic Shard
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Thunderclap
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Ground Slam
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Unstoppable Force
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StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Malphite build →

Best ADCs for Malphite

Who Malphite has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Malphite

Who Malphite has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

47.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 46.6% over 33,310 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.2% over 15,425 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.1%at Emerald+
0.7%pick rate
18.7%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
46.3%under 22 min
49.1%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 30–35m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitS Malphite+Ezreal champion portraitB EzrealvsBlitzcrank champion portraitS Blitzcrank+Kai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'Sa
9 / 13 / 14

Build

Celestial OppositionIonian Boots of Lucidity|Malignance→Frozen Heart→Stormsurge→Hextech Rocketbelt

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitS Malphite+Samira champion portraitB SamiravsKarma champion portraitS Karma+Ezreal champion portraitB Ezreal
2 / 12 / 16

Build

Zaz'Zak's RealmspikeIonian Boots of Lucidity|Luden's Echo→Stormsurge→Banshee's Veil→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Malphite champion portraitS Malphite+Vayne champion portraitB VaynevsKarma champion portraitS Karma+Ezreal champion portraitB Ezreal
2 / 11 / 24

Build

Celestial OppositionPlated Steelcaps|Zeke's Convergence→Frozen Heart→Abyssal Mask

Spells & runes

ExhaustFlash|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 47.7% win rate · 30% of games · 3,920 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 46.7% win rate · 22% of games · 2,915 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 + Ignite80%47.4%13,149 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash11%46.4%1,872 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes39%Plated Steelcaps25%Mercury's Treads15%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 49.6% win rate
Support item
Zaz'Zak's Realmspike50%Celestial Opposition30%Solstice Sleigh14%
Zaz'Zak's Realmspike most often · 48.2% win rate

Malphite build

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

  1. Malignance1st
  2. Stormsurge2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
9% of games that reach a third item take this path52.5% win rate673 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Malphite →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 15,955 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
38% · 49.7% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
24% · 47.2% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
14% · 44.6% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
13% · 50.2% win rate
BootsBoots
6% · 37.6% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 41.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Malignance›Stormsurge+Sorcerer's Shoes7% of games · 48.3% win rate · 1,044 games
  2. Malignance+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 40.2% win rate · 620 games
  3. Malignance›Stormsurge›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 54.3% win rate · 409 games
  4. Malignance+Boots2% of games · 33.3% win rate · 282 games
  5. Malignance›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 48.5% win rate · 264 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. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Malphite's average instead of 50%.

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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