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
- 10.9%picked in 3,043 of 27,937 games
- Ban
- 16.2%3,677 bans over 22,729 games, against 14.4% in soloQ
Amateur: 27,970 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR 65% · EUW 25% · NA 10%. SoloQ Master+: 951,671 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 tournaments3 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 compAbsorbs damage first: absorbs more than 98% of top laners.FrontlineTeamfightLets allies carryCC
- With / againstBetter than expected against Elise in amateur play: +30.4 pts over 33 games, range above zero.+30.4 pt33 games
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 4.4%
- SoloQ
- 3.2%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 16.6%
- 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: +30.4 pts over 33 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 +0.4 ptsSoloQ: 57.6% · 1,924 g
- Nasus120 games48.3%gap -0.4 ptsSoloQ: 46.3% · 1,348 g
- Dr. Mundo116 games47.4%gap -5.2 ptsSoloQ: 45.2% · 1,657 g
- Ambessa115 games49.6%gap +0.4 ptsSoloQ: 54.1% · 1,312 g
- Renekton92 games43.5%gap -4.6 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 1,169 g
- Sion92 games47.8%gap -2.2 ptsSoloQ: 46.4% · 1,052 g
- Aatrox90 games53.3%gap +4.8 ptsSoloQ: 52.5% · 1,562 g
- Mordekaiser84 games46.4%gap -2.2 ptsSoloQ: 47.4% · 1,389 g
- Yone76 games52.6%gap +2.5 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 2,970 g
- Ornn72 games45.8%gap -3.4 ptsSoloQ: 47.1% · 1,003 g
- Sylas65 games44.6%gap -4.8 ptsSoloQ: 44.9% · 2,962 g
- Zaahen57 games56.1%gap +9.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.3% · 749 g
- Olaf56 games42.9%gap -3.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.0% · 676 g
- Camille55 games47.3%gap +0.5 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 1,165 g
- K'Sante52 games53.8%gap +2.1 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 904 g
- Jayce50 games50.0%gap -4.0 ptsSoloQ: 57.0% · 5,041 g
- Jax44 games47.7%gap -1.2 ptsSoloQ: 50.4% · 1,512 g
- Gangplank36 games52.8%gap +6.2 ptsSoloQ: 50.5% · 1,368 g
- Jayce31 games64.5%gap +5.5 ptsSoloQ: 57.0% · 5,041 g
- Fiora30 games46.7%gap -2.4 ptsSoloQ: 52.0% · 1,958 g
- Jayce26 games—SoloQ: 57.0% · 5,041 g
- Irelia22 games—SoloQ: 56.3% · 1,806 g
- Pantheon21 games—SoloQ: 53.3% · 1,499 g
- Wukong222 games50.5%gap +3.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.5% · 2,308 g
- Lee Sin177 games51.4%gap +1.5 ptsSoloQ: 52.6% · 4,601 g
- Vi158 games51.9%gap +2.6 ptsSoloQ: 55.1% · 1,327 g
- Jarvan IV143 games49.7%gap -1.4 ptsSoloQ: 53.1% · 2,267 g
- Xin Zhao120 games49.2%gap -0.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.0% · 904 g
- Nocturne84 games52.4%gap +0.5 ptsSoloQ: 52.2% · 841 g
- Sejuani69 games46.4%gap -5.6 ptsSoloQ: 46.2% · 500 g
- Viego67 games55.2%gap +4.6 ptsSoloQ: 53.6% · 2,468 g
- Lillia66 games42.4%gap -3.7 ptsSoloQ: 47.0% · 1,472 g
- Jayce61 games54.1%gap +2.6 ptsSoloQ: 53.9% · 1,409 g
- Cho'Gath55 games52.7%gap +4.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.7% · 1,177 g
- Qiyana53 games43.4%gap -3.5 ptsSoloQ: 52.4% · 3,167 g
- Graves42 games52.4%gap +2.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.1% · 2,677 g
- Zed42 games47.6%gap -1.3 ptsSoloQ: 54.0% · 752 g
- Pantheon41 games48.8%gap -4.6 ptsSoloQ: 54.4% · 327 g
- Elise33 games78.8%gap +30.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 1,453 g
- Hecarim28 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 2,258 g
- Nidalee28 games—SoloQ: 47.5% · 1,591 g
- Talon24 games—SoloQ: 50.5% · 2,575 g
- Kha'Zix19 games—SoloQ: 53.4% · 2,682 g
- Kayn17 games—SoloQ: 54.5% · 1,450 g
- Master Yi10 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 1,662 g
- Rengar10 games—SoloQ: 52.4% · 1,530 g
- Ahri172 games52.9%gap +5.4 ptsSoloQ: 50.4% · 2,855 g
- Viktor152 games49.3%gap +0.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.7% · 2,719 g
- Syndra143 games49.7%gap +0.8 ptsSoloQ: 53.0% · 2,664 g
- Orianna99 games52.5%gap +0.7 ptsSoloQ: 53.1% · 1,205 g
- Lissandra97 games37.1%gap -13.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 1,499 g
- Xerath74 games58.1%gap +8.0 ptsSoloQ: 51.0% · 1,122 g
- Galio73 games45.2%gap -5.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.1% · 1,592 g
- Hwei72 games47.2%gap -1.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 1,256 g
- Locke67 games52.2%gap +2.2 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 2,429 g
- Aurora65 games53.8%gap +3.3 ptsSoloQ: 50.0% · 1,057 g
- Akali64 games50.0%gap +0.6 ptsSoloQ: 53.2% · 1,788 g
- Yone63 games49.2%gap +2.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.6% · 2,929 g
- Ryze60 games46.7%gap -4.5 ptsSoloQ: 51.7% · 718 g
- Vex56 games51.8%gap +1.5 ptsSoloQ: 53.3% · 884 g
- LeBlanc54 games40.7%gap -8.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 1,636 g
- Galio51 games60.8%gap +6.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.1% · 1,592 g
- Twisted Fate49 games46.9%gap -1.3 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 2,124 g
- Yasuo26 games—SoloQ: 48.9% · 2,601 g
- Sylas25 games—SoloQ: 47.0% · 2,115 g
- Zed23 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 2,151 g
- Ekko21 games—SoloQ: 48.6% · 1,507 g
- Katarina11 games—SoloQ: 49.8% · 1,876 g
- Galio6 games—SoloQ: 51.1% · 1,592 g
- Katarina6 games—SoloQ: 49.8% · 1,876 g
- Yunara183 games48.1%gap +0.6 ptsSoloQ: 52.4% · 4,811 g
- Caitlyn177 games51.4%gap +3.6 ptsSoloQ: 53.5% · 3,435 g
- Jhin159 games60.4%gap +8.3 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 6,147 g
- Kai'Sa146 games45.2%gap -4.9 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 4,993 g
- Ezreal145 games49.7%gap -3.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.9% · 3,322 g
- Jinx139 games45.3%gap -2.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 4,489 g
- Xayah136 games47.8%gap -0.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.7% · 1,995 g
- Ashe117 games44.4%gap -3.8 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 1,545 g
- Lucian108 games50.0%gap -0.5 ptsSoloQ: 52.3% · 2,510 g
- Tristana106 games49.1%gap -0.5 ptsSoloQ: 51.7% · 3,504 g
- Aphelios96 games47.9%gap -5.5 ptsSoloQ: 53.6% · 3,198 g
- Miss Fortune80 games38.8%gap -11.5 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 1,325 g
- Sivir80 games56.3%gap +5.5 ptsSoloQ: 52.3% · 1,182 g
- Zeri65 games47.7%gap +1.0 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 2,057 g
- Ziggs48 games60.4%gap +6.3 ptsSoloQ: 47.8% · 577 g
- Kalista32 games59.4%gap +12.5 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 1,906 g
- Draven18 games—SoloQ: 51.1% · 1,888 g
- Twitch18 games—SoloQ: 50.1% · 1,446 g
- Nautilus191 games47.6%gap -1.8 ptsSoloQ: 52.3% · 3,659 g
- Lulu183 games54.1%gap +2.0 ptsSoloQ: 53.1% · 4,701 g
- Leona163 games55.2%gap +4.5 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 2,510 g
- Braum153 games46.4%gap -1.2 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 2,070 g
- Thresh136 games47.8%gap -0.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 4,786 g
- Seraphine121 games42.1%gap -6.4 ptsSoloQ: 52.0% · 1,536 g
- Karma103 games50.5%gap -1.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 2,300 g
- Rakan103 games42.7%gap -6.0 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 1,722 g
- Blitzcrank102 games50.0%gap +2.0 ptsSoloQ: 50.5% · 2,611 g
- Milio100 games46.0%gap -5.5 ptsSoloQ: 52.7% · 1,695 g
- Rell98 games46.9%gap +1.0 ptsSoloQ: 48.8% · 1,915 g
- Alistar78 games50.0%gap +1.6 ptsSoloQ: 47.5% · 2,491 g
- Yuumi64 games53.1%gap +4.7 ptsSoloQ: 56.1% · 1,853 g
- Bard59 games47.5%gap +0.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.8% · 2,124 g
- Neeko51 games58.8%gap +10.9 ptsSoloQ: 48.1% · 580 g
- Pyke41 games41.5%gap -8.6 ptsSoloQ: 50.2% · 2,016 g
- Nami36 games36.1%gap -16.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.1% · 2,470 g
- Janna19 games—SoloQ: 48.6% · 2,387 g
- Senna8 games—SoloQ: 50.7% · 1,965 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%60,616 picks of 1,903,323ban 14.4% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments4.4%1,701 picks of 38,304ban 16.6% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.8%19 picks of 2,238bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20

