Blackthorn Malphite

Game plan

How it’s played

Level 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.4 on average.

Play it when

you hold Needlessly Large Rod and Chain Vest, and nobody else is on Malphite or Azir (it placed #4.73 then, #5.18 against two or more)

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, Warmog's Armor · 278 games · #4.33

Components

Needlessly Large Rod ×4 · Chain Vest ×2 · Giant's Belt ×2 · Negatron Cloak ×2 · B.F. Sword · Recurve Bow

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.5 · stage 5: 7.8 · stage 6: 8.4

Games end

Lv 7 20% · Lv 8 59% · Lv 9 19%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.0 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.78 across every comp; this one averages 4.94, 0.16 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; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.

4Malphite★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmog's Armor
• Spirit Visage

carry

4Soraka★★

• Blackthorn Emblem
• Spear of Shojin
• Jeweled Gauntlet

4Zyra★★

• Blackthorn Emblem
• Void Staff
• Spear of Shojin

or

• Kha'Zix

3Azir★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Hextech Gunblade
• Rabadon's Deathcap

carry

1Rek'Sai★★

or

• Lux

1Veigar★★

3Fiddlesticksflex

or

• Amumu

2Warwickflex

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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 19,777 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

Lv 4plan4Malphite’s items on Rek'Sai

Lv 5planAdded42Malphite’s items on Rek'Sai

Lv 6realAddedSold15

Lv 720%Added11521Optionsall: #6.24 · 0% won · 296 gamesSoraka#5.910% won · 45Krug#6.091% won · 82

Lv 859%AddedSold2115222

Lv 919%Added3211522

Lv 10bestAdded32115222The 10th championall: #2.03 · 40% won · 114 gamesRammus#1.8651% won · 37Kennen#1.9738% won · 58

3★ targets Azir22%

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite or Azir, over 5,727 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 at all ranks over the last 14 days.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Malphite	Gargoyle Stoneplate	#4.82	-0.16	16,550
Malphite	Warmog's Armor	#4.76	-0.22	7,798
Malphite	Spirit Visage	#4.67	-0.31	3,791

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 StoneplateWarmog's Armor	#4.33	278
Malphite	CrownguardGargoyle StoneplateWarmog's Armor	#4.52	264
Malphite	Gargoyle StoneplateSpirit VisageWarmog's Armor	#4.25	208
Azir	Guinsoo's RagebladeHextech GunbladeRabadon's Deathcap	#4.03	357
Azir	Archangel's StaffGuinsoo's RagebladeHextech Gunblade	#4.63	221

Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×4, Chain Vest ×2, Giant's Belt ×2, Negatron Cloak ×2, B.F. Sword, Recurve Bow

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 85.04avg place1,921 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 84.28avg place1,394 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 75.37avg place822 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.30avg place736 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 83.47avg place694 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.

• Blackthorn 6 averages 4.71 here, against 5.95 at Blackthorn 2 (11138 boards)

  Item Extraction

• Flora Fatalis 2 averages 4.80 here, against 5.08 at Flora Fatalis 1 (15888 boards)

  Consuming Flora

By ruleSuits this carry Malphite is built for ability power here (16141 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier CapsHold the LineSoul AwakeningDark RitualDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTSeraphim's StaffTons of Stats!

1 more

Stand United

Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type Malphite is built for ability power here (16141 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. #1MJS Leofloresdc#ChembChallenger · LAS · 1,812 LP · level 8 · 2026-10-09
2. #2Skipaeus#9232Challenger · EUW · 1,620 LP · level 10 · out at 6-6 · 2026-10-09
3. #5Showtime#2004Challenger · NA · 1,508 LP · level 7 · out at 5-6 · 2026-10-11
4. #6Vbzz#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,628 LP · level 8 · out at 5-5 · 2026-10-12
5. #6ea7 lbt1#0910Challenger · VN · 1,714 LP · level 8 · out at 5-5 · 2026-10-12
6. #7shain22#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,548 LP · level 8 · out at 5-3 · 2026-10-09

Traits

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

Flora Fatalis2Monolith1Thornmaiden1Blackthorn5next 6Executioner2next 3Spellweaver2next 4Summoner2next 3

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	25.9592245.238,57364.7110,216
Executioner	25.379,82034.505,90443.812,283
Flora Fatalis	15.086,01124.809,877
Spellweaver	24.6912,01544.12842
Summoner	24.728,93135.165,643

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+	3,967	#4.94	42.1%	9.2%
All ranks	5,727	#4.98	41.1%	8.6%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 5 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

4.998

5.029

4.9010

4.9611

5.0912

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	#4.68	263
Blackthorn Malphite Executioner	—	5	#3.39	226
Blackthorn Malphite Executioner Spellweaver	—	5	#4.88	191
Summoner Zyra Lunar	—	5	#4.14	85
Sprykin Rammus & Azir	S	4	#4.19	106,503
Executioner Malphite & Soraka	B	4	#4.62	68,883
Blackthorn Malphite Blossom	—	4	#5.07	6,235
Sprykin Veigar & Malphite	—	4	#5.16	2,591