Blackthorn Malphite Blossom
Fast 8Carried by Malphite
Updated 03 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · Patch 18.3
Game plan
- How it’s played
- Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.8 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 · 160 games · #4.56- Components
Chain Vest ×2 · 
Giant's Belt ×2 · 
Negatron Cloak ×2- Contested?
- Others holding Malphite: nobody else: #4.50 · 1 other: #4.61 · 2+ others: #4.69
- Pace
- Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.9 · stage 5: 8.2 · stage 6: 8.8
- Games end
- Lv 8 52% · Lv 9 38% · Lv 10 5%
- Vs its level
- Finishes at level 8.4 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.45 across every comp; this one averages 4.47, 0.02 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.Finishes at level 8.4 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.46 across every comp; this one averages 4.57, 0.11 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.
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.
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.
Ahri★★- Jeweled Gauntlet
- Spear of Shojin
- Blackthorn Emblem
Lux
Malphite★★- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Warmogs Armor
- Spirit Visage
Sett★★- Gargoyle Stoneplate
- Warmogs Armor
Azir★★- Guinsoo's Rageblade
- Hextech Gunblade
- Archangel's Staff
Rek'Sai★★Veigar★★Yorick★★
Fiddlesticks
Zyraflex
Warwick
Paste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.
How it’s played
The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 4,169 games; below that it is planned.
4Malphite’s items on Rek'Sai
Added4
2Malphite’s items on KobukoAdded
152
AddedSold14
3
2
2
2AddedSold31
14322Added3
1114322Not a reroll comp: nothing is 3-starred on even 1 board in 5.
How these rows are made
Level 8 and up are the boards this comp’s games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days. Riot’s match data keeps only that last board, so the levels below are planned by one rule from this comp’s own units and traits and Riot’s shop odds, and marked plan — how the rule works. Hover a trait badge for what it does. Rows marked real are the boards of the games that went out at that level holding four or more of this comp’s units — real boards on the way to it, not its own games.
Contested?
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite, over 3,173 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.
| Others holding it | Avg Place | Share of games |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody else | #4.50 | 41% |
| 1 other player | #4.61 | 42% |
| 2 or more | #4.69 | 17% |
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 | #4.44 | -0.12 | 3,192 |
| Malphite | Warmogs Armor | #4.43 | -0.13 | 1,507 |
| Malphite | Spirit Visage | #4.32 | -0.24 | 739 |
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 | #4.56 | 160 |
| Malphite |  CrownguardGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs Armor | #4.13 | 154 |
| Malphite | Gargoyle Stoneplate Steadfast HeartWarmogs Armor | #4.21 | 99 |
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.
5.47avg place466 gamesPlaysInstead of5.32avg place324 gamesPlaysInstead of
+1 open4.03avg place109 gamesPlaysInstead ofAugments 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.
Blackthorn 6 averages 4.19 here, against 5.10 at Blackthorn 2 (2290 boards)
Item ExtractionBlossom 7 averages 4.31 here, against 4.51 at Blossom 3 (2587 boards)
Blossom's CallFlora Fatalis 2 averages 4.37 here, against 4.53 at Flora Fatalis 1 (1234 boards)
Consuming Flora
By ruleSuits this carry Malphite is built for ability power here (3207 boards)
Baron's Lair
Coronation
Deadlier Caps
Hold the Line
Soul Awakening
Dark Ritual
Early Learnings
Embiggen
NO SCOUT NO PIVOT
Seraphim's Staff
Tons of Stats!
Stand UnitedWorks against it: Wrong damage type (3)
By ruleWrong damage type Malphite is built for ability power here (3207 boards)
Deadlier Blades
Cybernetic Implants
Focused FireRiot’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.
- #1humblefumble#vuxChallenger · VN · 1,674 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-30
- #1우 리#TFTChallenger · KR · 1,486 LP · level 10 · 2026-09-29
- #2Độc Cô Cầu Toàn#A LogChallenger · VN · 1,586 LP · level 8 · out at 5-6 · 2026-10-02
- #4Carpe Diem#0124Challenger · KR · 1,715 LP · level 8 · out at 5-3 · 2026-09-29
- #6Ssangyeop#1234Challenger · KR · 1,570 LP · level 8 · out at 5-3 · 2026-09-29
- #7RonaldoOfTFT#KRSIUChallenger · KR · 1,482 LP · level 8 · out at 5-2 · 2026-09-30
Traits
Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
Summoner3Monolith1Thornmaiden1Blackthorn4next 6Blossom3next 5Brawler2next 4Spellweaver2next 4What 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 | 25.1034444.901,81664.191,946 |
| Blossom | 34.512,50654.3627474.3181 |
| Brawler | 24.533,25844.03142 |
| Spellweaver | 24.582,54644.41428 |
| Summoner | 24.671,43534.231,666 |
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+ | 1,645 | #4.48 | 51.0% | 12.8% |
| All ranks | 2,243 | #4.56 | 48.8% | 11.9% |
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.
Also played
Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.
| Comp | Tier | Shared units | Avg Place | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackthorn Malphite Summoner | — | 5 | #4.43 | 624 |
| Blackthorn Malphite Spellweaver | — | 5 | #4.69 | 447 |
| Blossom Sett & Zyra | — | 5 | #4.66 | 179 |
| Blossom Malphite | — | 5 | #3.25 | 135 |
| Blackthorn Malphite & Zyra Juggernaut | — | 5 | #5.37 | 97 |
| Executioner Azir & Vi | B | 4 | #4.67 | 23,043 |
| Blackthorn Malphite | D | 4 | #5.03 | 11,947 |
| Sprykin Veigar & Malphite | C | 4 | #4.91 | 8,815 |