Blackthorn Malphite & Kennen

Also called Malphite Kennen Fast 8 · Blackthorn Fast 8

Fast 8Carried by Malphite & KennenA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.5 ranked games.

Difficulty Easy None of our four difficulty signals apply

Updated 21 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.5

Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 117 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

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.

All of these play

Azir

Malphite

Not gradedBlackthorn Malphite

#4.92 avg42.2% top 44,750 gamesLevel 8

Played on about 1 board in 357 this week; a grade needs 1 in 100.

Carried by Malphite & Azir

Only this one plays

Veigar

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Not gradedBlackthorn Malphite with Sett

#5.18 avg36.7% top 44,011 gamesFast 8

Played on about 1 board in 417 this week; a grade needs 1 in 100.

Carried by Malphite & Zyra

Only this one plays

Sett

or Ahri

or Yorick

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No tier yetBlackthorn Malphite with Kennen

— avg— top 4383 gamesFast 8

Carried by Malphite & Lux

Only this one plays

or Ivern

or Lillia

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No tier yetBlackthorn Malphite & Warwick

— avg— top 4275 games2-cost reroll at level 8

Carried by Malphite & Warwick

Only this one plays

Murkwolf

Brambleback

or Krug

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No tier yetBlackthorn Malphite & Kennen

— avg— top 4117 gamesFast 8

Carried by Malphite & Kennen

Only this one plays

Amumu

or Shen

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 & EzrealNo tier yet90 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

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

#4.97 alone20% of games
#5.32 with one other33% of games
#5.56 with two or more47% of games

Others on Malphite or Kennen in the lobby, over 563 games of this patch at all ranks.

Scout the lobby: with two or more other players on Malphite or Kennen it placed #5.56, against #4.97 with nobody else on them.

Level plan

Stage 2 Lv 4 plan
Stage 3 Lv 6 plan
Stage 4 Lv 7.5 measured
Stage 5 Lv 8.1 measured
Stage 6 Lv 8.6 measured

Its games end at Lv 7 10% · Lv 8 55% · Lv 9 30%

Carries

Malphite 3★ on 1% of boards

Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor, Spirit Visage

Kennen 3★ on 0% of boards

Hand Of Justice, Blackthorn Emblem, Edge of Night

Game plan

How it’s played: Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.6 on average.
Play it when: nobody else is on Malphite or Kennen (it placed #4.97 then, #5.56 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
Pace: Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.5 · stage 5: 8.1 · stage 6: 8.6
Games end: Lv 7 10% · Lv 8 55% · Lv 9 30%
Vs its level: Finishes at level 8.1 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.69 across every comp; this one averages 5.48, 0.79 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, 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. 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; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.

Kennen★

Hand Of Justice
Blackthorn Emblem
Edge of Night

carry

Amumu★★

Malphite★★

Gargoyle Stoneplate
Warmog's Armor
Spirit Visage

carry

Azir★★

Guinsoo's Rageblade
Hextech Gunblade
Archangel's Staff

Akali
Varus

Warwick★★

Rek'Sai★★

Sorakaflex

Shenflex

Kha'Zix

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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

Play Rek'Sai, Veigar, Warwick and Azir.

Malphite's items go on Rek'Sai until Malphite comes in at level 7.

Kennen's items go on Azir until Kennen comes in at level 7.

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add Akali and Shen.

3% of its games end at level 6.

Stage 4 Level 7 measured

Its players average 7.5 when they go out in stage 4.

Add Kennen; sell Veigar.

10% of its games end at level 7.

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

Stage 5 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.1 when they go out in stage 5.

Add Amumu and Malphite; sell Shen and Akali.

55% of its games end at level 8.

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 8.6 when they go out in stage 6.

30% of its games end at level 9.

Its games end around round 5-5 on average, with 16 gold left.

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

63%710%855%930%102%

Lv 4plan

4Malphite’s items on Rek'SaiKennen’s items on Azir

Lv 5plan

Added

4Malphite’s items on ShenKennen’s items on Azir

Lv 6plan

Added

2Malphite’s items on ShenKennen’s items on Akali

Lv 710%

Added

Sold

Lv 855%

Added

Sold

Lv 930%

Added

Lv 10best

Added

1The 10th championall: #2.00 · 45% won · 656 games

Yunara#1.8039% won · 59

Zyra#1.8650% won · 394

Lux#1.8752% won · 237

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

How these rows are made

Level 7 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. Under a measured level, its options: what its games put in the slots past that level’s core, best placed first, with average place, win rate and games beside the level’s own. All of them went out at that level, so none is flattered by having got further. The board draws the first, in a gold ring; the most played is named among them. The row marked best adds the champion that placed best at the level above.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite or Kennen, over 563 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
Nobody else	#4.97	20%
1 other player	#5.32	33%
2 or more	#5.56	47%

Questions

What people search for about this comp, answered from the numbers on this page.

How do you play Blackthorn Malphite & Kennen in TFT Set 18?

Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.6 on average. Its games end most often at level 8 (55%).

What items does Malphite need?

On its final board Malphite holds Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor and Spirit Visage.

Is Blackthorn Malphite & Kennen good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 234 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #5.32.

Is Blackthorn Malphite & Kennen contested?

Yes, contest costs it: with nobody else on Malphite or Kennen it placed #4.97 (20% of games), with one other #5.32 (33%), with two or more #5.56 (47%), over 563 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
Malphite	Gargoyle Stoneplate	#4.74	-0.58	307
Malphite	Warmog's Armor	#4.56	-0.76	153
Malphite	Spirit Visage	#5.02	-0.30	100

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 8

4.94avg place101 gamesPlays

Instead of

Lv 8

5.68avg place81 gamesPlays

Instead of

Lv 8

5.35avg place71 gamesPlays

Instead of

Lv 8

+1 open5.76avg place49 gamesPlays

Instead 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.

#4.77

Blackthorn 6: averages 4.77 here, against 6.04 at Blackthorn 2 (255 boards)

Item Extraction

AP carry

By ruleSuits this carry: Malphite is built for ability power here (333 boards)

Baron's Lair

Coronation

Deadlier Caps

Hold the Line

Soul Awakening

Dark Ritual

Double Trouble

Early Learnings

Embiggen

NO SCOUT NO PIVOT

Seraphim's Staff

Tons of Stats!

1 more

Stand United

Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type: Malphite is built for ability power here (333 boards)

Deadlier Blades

Cybernetic Implants

Focused 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

Traits

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

Monolith1

Blackthorn4next 6

Executioner3next 4

Inferno3next 5

Flora Fatalis1next 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.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Blackthorn	26.0412744.8820064.77128
Executioner	25.4414735.2813644.06122
Inferno	24.9018336.1513155.76120

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+	117	#5.49	34.2%	6.8%
All ranks	234	#5.32	37.6%	5.6%

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.

5.4015

5.7616

5.2817

5.0818

5.0019

5.0720

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 & Azir	—	5	#3.01	79
Riftbeast Warwick & Malphite	—	4	#4.51	17,594
Blackthorn Malphite & Warwick	—	4	#3.67	439
Blackthorn Malphite with Gnar	—	4	#3.34	288
Executioner Zyra & Malphite	—	4	#3.21	229
Summoner Zyra & Malphite	—	4	#3.76	190
Blackthorn Malphite & Morgana	—	4	#5.13	150
Blackthorn Malphite with Hecarim	—	4	#4.20	86