Malphite
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NABans, presence and fearless: Malphite across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 9.3%picked in 245 of 2,644 games
- Ban
- 11.4%224 bans over 1,958 games, against 16.7% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,664 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 215,636 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.DraftLength
- How to play itArcane Comet, then Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Kaenic Rookern: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compNo trait above other top laners; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 72).
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftPriority pick: taken in G1, burned afterwards.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 11.6%
- SoloQ
- 16.7%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.1 min
- SoloQ
- 28 min
How to play it?
Arcane Comet, then Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Kaenic Rookern: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesArcane Comet70% · 11,769
SpellsFlash + Teleport77% · 12,935- Sunfire Aegis
- Frozen Heart
- Kaenic Rookern
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
No trait above other top laners; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 72).
- Its most marked traitTakes its kills in duelstop28%32% · top laners: 28%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
Nothing above top laners.
Like other top laners
- Absorbs damage
- Takes its kills in duels
- Crowd control (CC)
What it is not
- Few teamfights
- Little damage
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Not measured: the fact is not validated by the draft review.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 81% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Gold at 15 min · rank 19 of 100 among top laners-328 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 19 of 100 among top laners-509 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 38 of 100 among top laners813 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 24 of 100 among top laners50% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 72 of 100 among top laners32% · median 28%
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 63 of 100 among top laners0.9 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 16 of 100 among top laners17% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
No pair measured in amateur play on this side.
Ban it or pick it?
Priority pick: taken in G1, burned afterwards.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+3.3%14,391 picks of 431,266ban 16.7% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments3.7%135 picks of 3,686ban 11.6% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.9%19 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
