Blackthorn Malphite Inferno

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.9 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 Crownguard, Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmogs Armor · 31 games · #2.97

Components

Chain Vest ×2 · Giant's Belt ×2 · Needlessly Large Rod · Negatron Cloak

Contested?

Others holding Malphite: nobody else: #3.49 · 1 other: #3.83

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.1 · stage 6: 8.9

Games end

Lv 7 9% · Lv 8 31% · Lv 9 50%

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Final board

The whole board at level 9, where most of its games end. The core — the units on most of this family’s boards — at the star level and with the items they were measured holding; then the flex slots, dashed, with the unit its boards put there most. A slot no unit holds on a quarter of its boards is open. Under a unit, or: the champions its boards play in that slot instead, measured on its level-9 boards this patch.

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Riot's match data records no positions, so this board is placed by rule from each champion's attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, and the carries holding the most items in the back corners. The level buttons show the board at each level: the dashed ones are planned by rule (see How it’s played), the rest measured.

5Kennen★

• Thief's Gloves
• Edge of Night
• Hand Of Justice

5Lux★

• Spear of Shojin
• Jeweled Gauntlet
• Void Staff

4Malphite★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Crownguard

carry

4Zyra★★

• Spear of Shojin
• Void Staff
• Executioner Emblem

3Azir★★

3Fiddlesticks★★

2Shen★★

or

• Rek'Sai

5Ivernflex

4Sorakaflex

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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 588 games; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan222Malphite’s items on Yorick

Lv 5planAdded222Malphite’s items on Shen

Lv 6planAdded222221Malphite’s items on Shen

Lv 79%AddedSold11221

Lv 831%AddedSold111322221

Lv 950%AddedSold2111132222

Lv 108%Added2111133222

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 314 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	#3.48	-0.11	479
Malphite	Warmogs Armor	#3.34	-0.24	239
Malphite	Crownguard	#3.15	-0.43	132

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	CrownguardGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs Armor	#2.97	31

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

At the top of the ladder

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

1. #1Zx7#0101Challenger · TW · 1,463 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-29
2. #1YBY1#0615Challenger · VN · 1,691 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-27
3. #3junglebook1#NA1Challenger · NA · 1,493 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-24
4. #1Độc Cô Cầu Toàn#A LogChallenger · VN · 1,562 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-24

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level; all of them count in the numbers above.

Lv 84.11avg place89 gamesPlaysInstead of

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Blackthorn2next 4Defender2next 4Executioner2next 3Inferno2next 3Summoner2next 3Avatar1Flora Fatalis1next 2Monolith1Thornmaiden1Spellweaver1next 2

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.

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.

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.

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 2 averages 3.61 here, against 3.79 at Blackthorn 6 (349 boards)

  Item Extraction

• Flora Fatalis 2 averages 3.29 here, against 4.37 at Flora Fatalis 1 (549 boards)

  Consuming Flora

By ruleSuits this carry Malphite is built for ability power here (462 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 (462 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.