Malphite
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · All regionsBans, presence and fearless: Malphite across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 10.8%picked in 3,097 of 28,549 games
- Ban
- 16.2%3,733 bans over 23,111 games, against 14.4% in soloQ
Amateur: 27,970 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR 65% · EUW 25% · NA 10%. SoloQ Master+: 963,871 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 tournaments4 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.Win rateDraftLength
- How to play itArcane Comet, then Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Kaenic Rookern: the most played build in soloQ.



- In a compAbsorbs damage first: absorbs more than 98% of top laners.FrontlineTeamfightLets allies carryCC
- With / againstBetter than expected against Elise in amateur play: +31.0 pts over 34 games, range above zero.+31.0 pt34 games
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
4 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- Win rateWins less in amateur play
- Amateur
- 49.2%
- SoloQ
- 51.1%
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 4.4%
- SoloQ
- 3.2%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 16.5%
- SoloQ
- 14.4%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.1 min
- SoloQ
- 27.3 min
How to play it?
Arcane Comet, then Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Kaenic Rookern: the most played build in soloQ.
Sunfire Aegis
Frozen Heart
Kaenic Rookern
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Absorbs damage first: absorbs more than 98% of top laners.
- Absorbs damagetop2%1,798 · top laners: 970
- Lets allies carry killstop6%rank 94 of 100
- Plays teamfightstop8%59% · top laners: 53%
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
- Frontline
- Teamfight
- Lets allies carry
- CC
Like other top laners
- Damage in mid game
- Team damage
What it is not
- Few duels
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 82 in lane, 43 in mid game and 14 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 96% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 82 of 100 among top laners665 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 43 of 100 among top laners848 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 14 of 100 among top laners953 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 4 of 100 among top laners-691 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 4 of 100 among top laners-1,025 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 98 of 100 among top laners1,798 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 93 of 100 among top laners59% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 9 of 100 among top laners21% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 94 of 100 among top lanersrank 94 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 76 of 100 among top laners1.1 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 38 of 100 among top laners20% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
Better than expected against Elise in amateur play: +31.0 pts over 34 games, range above zero.
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
With
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.
- Gnar165 games51.5%gap +0.7 ptsSoloQ: 57.7% · 1,884 g
- Ambessa123 games49.6%gap +0.7 ptsSoloQ: 54.1% · 1,293 g
- Dr. Mundo120 games48.3%gap -4.3 ptsSoloQ: 45.4% · 1,629 g
- Nasus118 games48.3%gap -0.4 ptsSoloQ: 46.9% · 1,311 g
- Renekton93 games43.0%gap -4.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.6% · 1,160 g
- Sion93 games48.4%gap -1.5 ptsSoloQ: 46.5% · 1,037 g
- Aatrox90 games52.2%gap +3.6 ptsSoloQ: 52.8% · 1,533 g
- Mordekaiser85 games48.2%gap -0.6 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 1,375 g
- Yone77 games51.9%gap +2.3 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 2,925 g
- Ornn74 games45.9%gap -3.1 ptsSoloQ: 47.4% · 985 g
- Sylas66 games42.4%gap -6.9 ptsSoloQ: 44.6% · 2,923 g
- Camille58 games46.6%gap -0.1 ptsSoloQ: 49.9% · 1,144 g
- Olaf57 games42.1%gap -4.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 668 g
- Zaahen57 games56.1%gap +9.3 ptsSoloQ: 50.4% · 738 g
- K'Sante54 games53.7%gap +2.0 ptsSoloQ: 48.9% · 904 g
- Jayce52 games51.9%gap -1.8 ptsSoloQ: 56.9% · 4,947 g
- Jax45 games46.7%gap -2.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 1,484 g
- Gangplank35 games54.3%gap +8.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 1,340 g
- Jayce33 games60.6%gap +2.5 ptsSoloQ: 56.9% · 4,947 g
- Fiora31 games48.4%gap -0.1 ptsSoloQ: 51.6% · 1,927 g
- Jayce28 games—SoloQ: 56.9% · 4,947 g
- Irelia22 games—SoloQ: 56.2% · 1,777 g
- Pantheon21 games—SoloQ: 53.2% · 1,496 g
- Tryndamere13 games—SoloQ: 54.2% · 1,213 g
- Wukong226 games50.4%gap +3.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.9% · 2,295 g
- Lee Sin178 games52.2%gap +2.6 ptsSoloQ: 52.6% · 4,533 g
- Vi159 games51.6%gap +2.5 ptsSoloQ: 55.2% · 1,298 g
- Jarvan IV151 games49.7%gap -1.2 ptsSoloQ: 53.2% · 2,246 g
- Xin Zhao128 games48.4%gap -1.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 893 g
- Nocturne88 games52.3%gap +0.6 ptsSoloQ: 51.8% · 812 g
- Sejuani70 games47.1%gap -5.0 ptsSoloQ: 46.2% · 489 g
- Viego67 games55.2%gap +4.7 ptsSoloQ: 53.6% · 2,403 g
- Lillia66 games40.9%gap -4.8 ptsSoloQ: 47.0% · 1,452 g
- Jayce61 games54.1%gap +3.0 ptsSoloQ: 54.1% · 1,371 g
- Cho'Gath57 games50.9%gap +2.7 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 1,171 g
- Qiyana55 games41.8%gap -4.7 ptsSoloQ: 52.1% · 3,115 g
- Pantheon43 games46.5%gap -6.3 ptsSoloQ: 55.5% · 326 g
- Zed42 games45.2%gap -3.4 ptsSoloQ: 54.3% · 733 g
- Skarner41 games48.8%gap -2.7 ptsSoloQ: 47.9% · 449 g
- Graves40 games50.0%gap +0.5 ptsSoloQ: 51.1% · 2,625 g
- Elise34 games79.4%gap +31.0 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 1,457 g
- Hecarim28 games—SoloQ: 50.9% · 2,230 g
- Nidalee27 games—SoloQ: 47.5% · 1,555 g
- Talon23 games—SoloQ: 50.6% · 2,518 g
- Kha'Zix19 games—SoloQ: 53.1% · 2,659 g
- Kayn17 games—SoloQ: 54.5% · 1,413 g
- Master Yi10 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 1,635 g
- Rengar10 games—SoloQ: 52.0% · 1,511 g
- Ahri181 games53.0%gap +5.5 ptsSoloQ: 50.3% · 2,785 g
- Viktor154 games50.0%gap +1.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.5% · 2,659 g
- Syndra149 games49.7%gap +1.2 ptsSoloQ: 53.0% · 2,617 g
- Orianna103 games52.4%gap +1.0 ptsSoloQ: 52.9% · 1,207 g
- Lissandra98 games37.8%gap -13.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.5% · 1,483 g
- Xerath75 games58.7%gap +8.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 1,104 g
- Galio73 games45.2%gap -5.6 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 1,563 g
- Hwei72 games47.2%gap -0.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 1,228 g
- Locke68 games51.5%gap +1.8 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 2,392 g
- Aurora66 games54.5%gap +4.0 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 1,060 g
- Yone66 games51.5%gap +4.9 ptsSoloQ: 51.7% · 2,855 g
- Akali64 games50.0%gap +1.2 ptsSoloQ: 53.7% · 1,752 g
- Ryze63 games44.4%gap -6.4 ptsSoloQ: 52.4% · 700 g
- Vex58 games50.0%gap -0.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.9% · 870 g
- LeBlanc57 games40.4%gap -8.8 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 1,607 g
- Galio53 games60.4%gap +6.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 1,563 g
- Twisted Fate49 games46.9%gap -1.2 ptsSoloQ: 50.5% · 2,089 g
- Yasuo26 games—SoloQ: 48.8% · 2,586 g
- Sylas25 games—SoloQ: 46.8% · 2,082 g
- Zed24 games—SoloQ: 51.2% · 2,121 g
- Ekko21 games—SoloQ: 49.2% · 1,482 g
- Katarina10 games—SoloQ: 49.6% · 1,833 g
- Galio6 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 1,563 g
- Katarina6 games—SoloQ: 49.6% · 1,833 g
- Caitlyn183 games50.8%gap +3.4 ptsSoloQ: 53.9% · 3,370 g
- Yunara181 games47.5%gap +0.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.2% · 4,671 g
- Jhin163 games59.5%gap +7.6 ptsSoloQ: 50.0% · 6,070 g
- Kai'Sa148 games45.3%gap -4.6 ptsSoloQ: 51.8% · 4,930 g
- Ezreal147 games50.3%gap -2.7 ptsSoloQ: 52.9% · 3,275 g
- Jinx144 games45.8%gap -1.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 4,393 g
- Xayah137 games46.7%gap -1.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 1,980 g
- Ashe118 games45.8%gap -2.4 ptsSoloQ: 50.7% · 1,509 g
- Lucian115 games50.4%gap +0.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.4% · 2,473 g
- Tristana106 games49.1%gap -0.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 3,438 g
- Aphelios97 games47.4%gap -5.8 ptsSoloQ: 53.7% · 3,176 g
- Sivir85 games57.6%gap +7.1 ptsSoloQ: 52.2% · 1,166 g
- Miss Fortune83 games37.3%gap -12.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 1,310 g
- Zeri65 games47.7%gap +1.5 ptsSoloQ: 50.9% · 2,019 g
- Ziggs48 games60.4%gap +7.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 575 g
- Kalista33 games57.6%gap +10.6 ptsSoloQ: 50.9% · 1,875 g
- Draven19 games—SoloQ: 50.6% · 1,842 g
- Twitch19 games—SoloQ: 50.3% · 1,413 g
- Nautilus193 games46.6%gap -2.8 ptsSoloQ: 52.3% · 3,607 g
- Lulu185 games54.6%gap +2.8 ptsSoloQ: 53.2% · 4,607 g
- Leona170 games55.9%gap +5.5 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 2,464 g
- Braum155 games46.5%gap -1.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 2,039 g
- Thresh141 games47.5%gap -0.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.4% · 4,705 g
- Seraphine122 games43.4%gap -5.2 ptsSoloQ: 51.6% · 1,486 g
- Rakan107 games43.0%gap -5.8 ptsSoloQ: 50.5% · 1,710 g
- Karma106 games50.0%gap -1.9 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 2,257 g
- Blitzcrank101 games49.5%gap +1.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.4% · 2,580 g
- Milio101 games46.5%gap -4.7 ptsSoloQ: 52.7% · 1,657 g
- Rell97 games46.4%gap +0.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.5% · 1,878 g
- Alistar82 games48.8%gap +0.8 ptsSoloQ: 47.3% · 2,461 g
- Yuumi64 games51.6%gap +3.2 ptsSoloQ: 56.2% · 1,796 g
- Bard63 games44.4%gap -2.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.2% · 2,086 g
- Neeko52 games57.7%gap +10.3 ptsSoloQ: 47.9% · 574 g
- Pyke41 games43.9%gap -5.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.4% · 1,997 g
- Nami40 games35.0%gap -17.3 ptsSoloQ: 51.0% · 2,419 g
- Janna19 games—SoloQ: 48.4% · 2,364 g
- Senna8 games—SoloQ: 50.9% · 1,930 g
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+3.2%61,424 picks of 1,927,723ban 14.4% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments4.4%1,773 picks of 40,028ban 16.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.8%19 picks of 2,238bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20

