Blackthorn Malphite & Ezreal
Also called Malphite Ezreal Fast 8 · Blackthorn Fast 8
Fast 8Carried by Malphite & EzrealA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.5 ranked games.
Difficulty Easy None of the difficulty signals we could measure apply (3 of 4 measured)
Updated 21 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.5
Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 90 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.
Too few games to grade: 118 at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400.
Which version?
15 comps play Blackthorn around Malphite; the biggest four and this one are compared here. They share the two below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.
10 smaller versions
- Blackthorn Malphite with GnarNo tier yet239 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with WarwickNo tier yet206 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with AluneNo tier yet152 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & KennenNo tier yet117 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & MorganaNo tier yet87 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & AzirNo tier yet60 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with HecarimNo tier yet48 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & Lux with KrugNo tier yet47 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & Azir with RammusNo tier yet39 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with MaokaiNo tier yet27 games
15 comps play Blackthorn around Malphite; the biggest four and this one are compared here. They share the two below; the units only one of them plays tell you which one you are on.
10 smaller versions
- Blackthorn Malphite with WarwickNo tier yet300 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with GnarNo tier yet288 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & KennenNo tier yet234 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with AluneNo tier yet168 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & MorganaNo tier yet150 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with HecarimNo tier yet86 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & Lux with KrugNo tier yet80 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & AzirNo tier yet79 games
- Blackthorn Malphite & Azir with RammusNo tier yet76 games
- Blackthorn Malphite with MaokaiNo tier yet50 games
Ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+. A dashed portrait is a flex slot: many of its games play another unit there.
No tier yet fewer than 400 games this week Not graded played too rarely to grade
When
Others on Malphite or Ezreal in the lobby, over 246 games of this patch at all ranks.
Level plan
- Stage 2 Lv 4 plan
- Stage 3 Lv 6 plan
- Stage 5 Lv 8.3 measured
- Stage 6 Lv 8.8 measured
Its games end at Lv 8 46% · Lv 9 46% · Lv 10 7%
Carries
Malphite 3★ on 1% of boards
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Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor, Spirit Visage
Ezreal 3★ on 0% of boards
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Spear of Shojin, Last Whisper, Deathblade

Game plan
- How it’s played
- Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.8 on average.
- 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
- Contested?
- Others holding Malphite / Ezreal: 1 other: #4.25 · 2+ others: #4.22
- Pace
- Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.3 · stage 6: 8.8
- Games end
- Lv 8 46% · Lv 9 46% · Lv 10 7%
- Vs its level
- Finishes at level 8.6 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.14 across every comp; this one averages 4.43, 0.29 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.Finishes at level 8.6 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.08 across every comp; this one averages 4.31, 0.23 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 9, where most of its games end, drawn from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them.










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.
Ezreal★★
Spear of Shojin
Last Whisper
Deathblade
Malphite★★
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Warmog's Armor
Spirit Visage
Azir★★
Guinsoo's Rageblade
Hextech Gunblade
Void Staff
Alistar★★
Rek'Sai★★
Veigar★★★
Kennenflex
Sorakaflex
OrnnflexPaste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.
Stage by stage
What to do at each stage, from the numbers below: stages 2 and 3 are our plan, 4 to 6 the level its players were measured at.
Stage 2 Level 4 plan
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Play Rek'Sai, Veigar, Yunara and Azir.
Malphite's items go on Rek'Sai until Malphite comes in at level 8.
Ezreal's items go on Yunara until Ezreal comes in at level 7.
Stage 3 Level 6 plan
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Add Ornn and Alistar.
Stage 5 Level 8 measured
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Its players average 8.3 when they go out in stage 5.
Add Ezreal and Malphite; sell Yunara.
3★ targets: Veigar 34% · Rek'Sai 31% · Ornn 28%
46% of its games end at level 8.
Stage 6 Level 9 measured
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Its players average 8.8 when they go out in stage 6.
Add Soraka.
46% of its games end at level 9.
Its games end around round 5-7 on average, with 9 gold left.
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 244 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned.
3★ targets
Veigar34%
Rek'Sai31%
Ornn28%
How these rows are made
Level 8 and up are the boards this comp’s games ended on. 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.
Contested?
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite or Ezreal, over 246 games of this patch at all ranks. 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 |
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| 1 other player | #4.25 | 32% |
| 2 or more | #4.22 | 55% |
Questions
What people search for about this comp, answered from the numbers on this page.
How do you play Blackthorn Malphite & Ezreal in TFT Set 18?
Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.8 on average. Its games end most often at level 9 (46%).
What items does Malphite need?
On its final board Malphite holds Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor and Spirit Visage.
Is Blackthorn Malphite & Ezreal good in patch 18.5?
Not graded yet: 118 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #4.31.
Is Blackthorn Malphite & Ezreal contested?
Contest costs it little: with one other #4.25 (32% of games), with two or more #4.22 (55%), over 246 games of this patch at all ranks.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4.22 | -0.09 | 206 | ||
| #4.41 | +0.10 | 71 | ||
| #4.64 | +0.33 | 44 |
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.
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.
AP carry
By ruleSuits this carry: Malphite is built for ability power here (182 boards)
1 more
Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)
By ruleWrong damage type: Malphite is built for ability power here (182 boards)
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.
- #1MJS Leofloresdc#ChembChallenger · LAS · 1,812 LP · level 10 · 2026-10-09
Traits
Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
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 |
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| Blackthorn | 44.4112663.6097 |
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 % |
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| Diamond+ | 90 | #4.43 | 44.4% | 11.1% |
| All ranks | 118 | #4.31 | 49.1% | 15.2% |
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 |
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| Blackthorn Malphite with Hecarim | — | 5 | #4.20 | 86 |
| Blackthorn Malphite | — | 4 | #4.95 | 6,819 |
| Sprykin Azir & Rammus with Malphite | — | 4 | #5.10 | 3,594 |
| Blackthorn Malphite with Gnar | — | 4 | #3.34 | 288 |
| Elderwood Malphite | — | 4 | #4.22 | 175 |
| Blackthorn Malphite with Alune | — | 4 | #3.33 | 168 |
| Blackthorn Malphite & Morgana | — | 4 | #5.13 | 150 |