Blackthorn Lux & Malphite Invoker

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.7 on average.

Play it when

you hold Chain Vest and Giant's Belt

Roll

Level 8 around 4-2: about 22 rolls (44 gold) to 2-star Malphite; about 33 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Build

Malphite Gargoyle Stoneplate, Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmogs Armor · 27 games · #4.30

Components

Chain Vest ×2 · Giant's Belt ×2 · Negatron Cloak ×2

Contested?

Others holding Malphite: nobody else: #4.91 · 1 other: #4.93 · 2+ others: #4.88

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.8 · stage 5: 8.2 · stage 6: 8.7

Games end

Lv 7 8% · Lv 8 49% · Lv 9 38%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.5 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.39 across every comp; this one averages 4.69, 0.30 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, where most of its games end. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them. Under a unit, or: who its games play there instead.

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Positions are our rule, by attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, the most-itemed carries in the back corners. Riot's match data has none. Dashed level buttons are planned, the rest measured.

4Malphite★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Spirit Visage

carry

3Azir★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Jeweled Gauntlet

2Warwick★★

• Titan's Resolve
• Sterak's Gage
• Spear of Shojin

5Luxflex

4Sentinelflex

3Dianaflex

or

• Morgana
• Kog'Maw

1Rek'Saiflex

1Veigarflex

or

• Aphelios

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How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 7 up it is measured over 839 games; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan222Malphite’s items on Rakan

Lv 5planAdded322Malphite’s items on Rek'Sai

Lv 6planAdded422Malphite’s items on Rek'Sai

Lv 78%AddedSold1522

Lv 849%AddedSold11522

Lv 938%Added115222

Not a reroll comp: nothing is 3-starred on even 1 board in 5.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite, over 603 games of this patch. We keep all eight boards of every game, so this is measured, not guessed; part of the gap is the lobby itself, so read it as how it placed, not only why.

Items

The three items this comp’s carry was measured holding most often, the placement of the boards it held them on, and the difference against the comp’s own average. Every board of the family, all ranks.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Malphite	Gargoyle Stoneplate	#4.63	-0.17	605
Malphite	Warmogs Armor	#4.62	-0.19	326
Malphite	Spirit Visage	#4.84	+0.04	172

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

Champion	Build	Avg Place	Games
Malphite	Gargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs Armor	#4.30	27
Malphite	CrownguardGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs Armor	#4.41	22
Malphite	Gargoyle StoneplateSpirit VisageWarmogs Armor	#4.36	22

Components to hold Chain Vest ×2, Giant's Belt ×2, Negatron Cloak ×2

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on, over the last 14 days. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level.

Lv 84.61avg place191 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.12avg place146 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 94.88avg place97 gamesPlaysInstead of

Augments that fit

What each augment grants, set against what this comp measured: the same rule the overlay uses when it reads the three on offer. A measured line is the comp’s own placement at a trait level; a line by rule is a fact about the comp, such as the damage its carry is built for.

MeasuredThe comp’s own placement at a trait’s levels, beside the augments that give the trait.

• Lunar 2 averages 4.89 here, against 4.97 at Lunar 3 (269 boards)

  Sun and MoonSun and Moon+

• Blackthorn 6 averages 4.61 here, against 5.61 at Blackthorn 2 (524 boards)

  Item Extraction

By ruleSuits this carry Malphite is built for ability power here (682 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier CapsHold the LineSoul AwakeningDark RitualEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTSeraphim's StaffTons of Stats!Stand United

Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type Malphite is built for ability power here (682 boards)

Deadlier BladesCybernetic ImplantsFocused Fire

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so no augment has a number of its own on this page or anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.

More about this comp

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, best placed first. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

1. #4오타쿠#aaaChallenger · KR · 1,510 LP · level 9 · out at 5-6 · 2026-09-27

Traits

Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Avatar1Monolith1Blackthorn5next 6Ravager2next 4Vanguard2next 4

What each tier of this comp’s own traits was worth on its boards. The small number under each average is how many boards sat at that tier.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Blackthorn	25.6111044.9530364.61414
Ravager	24.9935144.0393

By bracket

Diamond, Master, Grandmaster and Challenger against the whole sample. Each board carries the tier of its own player where the sampler held it.

Bracket	Games	Avg Place	Top 4 %	Win %
Diamond+	208	#4.69	44.7%	13.0%
All ranks	404	#4.80	43.3%	10.6%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 7 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

4.4127

5.1028

4.9829

4.6530

4.661

5.002

4.983