Malphite
Patches 16.20 to 16.22 · KRBans, presence and fearless: Malphite across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 11.5%picked in 2,151 of 18,759 games
- Ban
- 18.1%3,209 bans over 17,736 games, against 9.2% in soloQ
Amateur: 18,564 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR. SoloQ Master+: 242,675 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 Jak'Sho, The Protean: 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 Wukong in amateur play: +9.2 pts over 140 games, range above zero.+9.2 pt140 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
- 4.8%
- SoloQ
- 3.1%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 19.0%
- SoloQ
- 9.2%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.2 min
- SoloQ
- 26.3 min
How to play it?
Arcane Comet, then Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and Jak'Sho, The Protean: the most played build in soloQ.
Sunfire Aegis
Frozen Heart
Jak'Sho, The Protean
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 Wukong in amateur play: +9.2 pts over 140 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.
- Nasus108 games50.0%gap +0.8 ptsSoloQ: 46.3% · 460 g
- Dr. Mundo103 games50.5%gap -4.0 ptsSoloQ: 44.6% · 513 g
- Gnar89 games52.8%gap -0.5 ptsSoloQ: 55.1% · 621 g
- Ambessa75 games52.0%gap -0.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.8% · 382 g
- Sion64 games48.4%gap -3.0 ptsSoloQ: 45.8% · 284 g
- Aatrox62 games59.7%gap +8.2 ptsSoloQ: 50.4% · 510 g
- Yone61 games54.1%gap +2.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.8% · 909 g
- Mordekaiser56 games46.4%gap -4.6 ptsSoloQ: 53.0% · 330 g
- Renekton56 games42.9%gap -8.7 ptsSoloQ: 53.1% · 382 g
- Ornn50 games48.0%gap -2.2 ptsSoloQ: 50.3% · 173 g
- Gwen46 games56.5%gap +3.6 ptsSoloQ: 45.5% · 224 g
- Olaf42 games45.2%gap -5.3 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 257 g
- Camille41 games48.8%gap -1.1 ptsSoloQ: 53.0% · 351 g
- K'Sante38 games63.2%gap +8.5 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 505 g
- Zaahen37 games56.8%gap +5.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.2% · 242 g
- Jayce35 games65.7%gap +4.8 ptsSoloQ: 55.9% · 2,919 g
- Sylas34 games38.2%gap -15.7 ptsSoloQ: 45.0% · 919 g
- Jax32 games40.6%gap -11.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.7% · 636 g
- Gangplank26 games—SoloQ: 51.7% · 503 g
- Jayce25 games—SoloQ: 55.9% · 2,919 g
- Fiora23 games—SoloQ: 50.7% · 570 g
- Jayce23 games—SoloQ: 55.9% · 2,919 g
- Irelia18 games—SoloQ: 55.0% · 771 g
- Pantheon13 games—SoloQ: 53.3% · 762 g
- Tryndamere11 games—SoloQ: 57.0% · 405 g
- Lee Sin175 games50.9%gap -2.3 ptsSoloQ: 52.6% · 2,564 g
- Wukong140 games56.4%gap +9.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.4% · 521 g
- Vi108 games53.7%gap +1.8 ptsSoloQ: 50.9% · 637 g
- Jarvan IV91 games50.5%gap -4.0 ptsSoloQ: 54.8% · 705 g
- Xin Zhao83 games49.4%gap -0.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.4% · 411 g
- Nocturne56 games57.1%gap +1.0 ptsSoloQ: 58.9% · 241 g
- Jayce55 games56.4%gap +2.5 ptsSoloQ: 56.2% · 796 g
- Lillia49 games42.9%gap -6.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 468 g
- Viego47 games55.3%gap +3.2 ptsSoloQ: 57.0% · 732 g
- Sejuani42 games50.0%gap -1.0 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 119 g
- Qiyana40 games57.5%gap +4.0 ptsSoloQ: 52.7% · 1,198 g
- Zed38 games47.4%gap -4.2 ptsSoloQ: 56.3% · 288 g
- Nidalee33 games36.4%gap -13.9 ptsSoloQ: 46.2% · 925 g
- Cho'Gath32 games50.0%gap -0.6 ptsSoloQ: 45.4% · 306 g
- Graves32 games50.0%gap -2.6 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 871 g
- Elise28 games—SoloQ: 45.8% · 511 g
- Hecarim28 games—SoloQ: 53.8% · 725 g
- Talon18 games—SoloQ: 54.5% · 719 g
- Kha'Zix17 games—SoloQ: 53.1% · 614 g
- Master Yi8 games—SoloQ: 50.9% · 503 g
- Ahri117 games53.0%gap +4.1 ptsSoloQ: 51.7% · 721 g
- Viktor98 games57.1%gap +5.0 ptsSoloQ: 53.9% · 1,037 g
- Syndra87 games57.5%gap +6.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.1% · 893 g
- Lissandra78 games38.5%gap -14.5 ptsSoloQ: 48.4% · 587 g
- Galio56 games55.4%gap +2.9 ptsSoloQ: 54.4% · 741 g
- Orianna56 games64.3%gap +8.8 ptsSoloQ: 47.9% · 520 g
- Akali54 games46.3%gap -6.8 ptsSoloQ: 54.9% · 696 g
- Locke53 games50.9%gap -2.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 791 g
- Xerath50 games52.0%gap +1.5 ptsSoloQ: 54.7% · 351 g
- Aurora49 games51.0%gap -1.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.2% · 388 g
- Galio47 games57.4%gap +0.6 ptsSoloQ: 54.4% · 741 g
- LeBlanc46 games50.0%gap -1.9 ptsSoloQ: 54.0% · 587 g
- Ryze46 games52.2%gap -1.9 ptsSoloQ: 55.9% · 272 g
- Vex46 games56.5%gap +5.8 ptsSoloQ: 49.4% · 326 g
- Hwei45 games46.7%gap -4.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.0% · 433 g
- Yone42 games54.8%gap +6.9 ptsSoloQ: 51.8% · 928 g
- Twisted Fate36 games41.7%gap -9.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 1,103 g
- Zed20 games—SoloQ: 51.1% · 634 g
- Yasuo18 games—SoloQ: 47.1% · 726 g
- Sylas13 games—SoloQ: 46.1% · 679 g
- Katarina6 games—SoloQ: 49.5% · 545 g
- Katarina5 games—SoloQ: 49.5% · 545 g
- Caitlyn131 games51.9%gap +2.2 ptsSoloQ: 54.7% · 1,066 g
- Jhin131 games64.9%gap +8.7 ptsSoloQ: 49.4% · 2,541 g
- Yunara121 games47.1%gap -2.9 ptsSoloQ: 52.5% · 1,487 g
- Ezreal118 games50.0%gap -6.3 ptsSoloQ: 53.7% · 1,392 g
- Kai'Sa115 games42.6%gap -9.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.0% · 2,198 g
- Xayah99 games56.6%gap +6.6 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 901 g
- Jinx88 games47.7%gap -0.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 1,315 g
- Lucian87 games57.5%gap +4.6 ptsSoloQ: 52.4% · 934 g
- Aphelios79 games50.6%gap -5.9 ptsSoloQ: 53.7% · 1,612 g
- Ashe71 games49.3%gap +0.6 ptsSoloQ: 53.0% · 385 g
- Miss Fortune70 games44.3%gap -7.6 ptsSoloQ: 52.5% · 472 g
- Tristana57 games49.1%gap -4.1 ptsSoloQ: 52.6% · 1,149 g
- Sivir56 games64.3%gap +12.7 ptsSoloQ: 54.4% · 316 g
- Zeri50 games50.0%gap +2.0 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 745 g
- Corki30 games43.3%gap -9.1 ptsSoloQ: 51.7% · 437 g
- Kalista23 games—SoloQ: 51.6% · 678 g
- Nautilus134 games54.5%gap +0.1 ptsSoloQ: 53.2% · 1,422 g
- Lulu126 games54.8%gap +0.8 ptsSoloQ: 54.6% · 1,687 g
- Leona124 games53.2%gap +1.3 ptsSoloQ: 48.0% · 893 g
- Thresh113 games51.3%gap +0.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.1% · 1,687 g
- Braum103 games43.7%gap -5.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 650 g
- Seraphine89 games51.7%gap +0.5 ptsSoloQ: 51.4% · 428 g
- Blitzcrank81 games53.1%gap +2.5 ptsSoloQ: 51.9% · 1,136 g
- Rakan75 games50.7%gap -2.1 ptsSoloQ: 52.2% · 634 g
- Alistar68 games48.5%gap -1.7 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 1,000 g
- Rell68 games45.6%gap -2.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 700 g
- Karma63 games47.6%gap -6.7 ptsSoloQ: 49.7% · 785 g
- Milio61 games52.5%gap -0.7 ptsSoloQ: 53.6% · 349 g
- Yuumi51 games56.9%gap +7.1 ptsSoloQ: 59.3% · 654 g
- Neeko39 games59.0%gap +7.2 ptsSoloQ: 49.4% · 271 g
- Bard32 games40.6%gap -10.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 851 g
- Pyke28 games—SoloQ: 49.9% · 690 g
- Pantheon11 games—SoloQ: 52.9% · 512 g
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+3.1%15,019 picks of 485,348ban 9.2% · patches 16.20 to 16.22
- Amateur tournaments4.8%878 picks of 18,436ban 19.0% · patches 16.20 to 16.22
- Pro0.8%19 picks of 2,258bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20

