Blackthorn Malphite Lunar

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average.

Play it when

nobody else is on Malphite (it placed #4.42 then, #4.67 against two or more)

Roll

Level 9 around 5-1: about 20 rolls (40 gold) to 2-star Malphite; about 30 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Contested?

Others holding Malphite: nobody else: #4.42 · 1 other: #4.12 · 2+ others: #4.67

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.4 · stage 5: 8.7 · stage 6: 9.1

Games end

Lv 8 22% · Lv 9 62% · Lv 10 14%

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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.

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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.

5Gnar★

5Lux★

• Spear of Shojin
• Jeweled Gauntlet
• Void Staff

4Malphite★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Spirit Visage

carry

4Sentinel★★

1Rek'Sai★★

5Aluneflex

5Dravenflex

5Taricflex

1Veigarflex

Also in the flex slots Azir, Elder Dragon

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at every level from 4 — a unit marked + is new since the level above. Level 8 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (873 games). 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.

Lv 4planBlackthorn 2Brawler 2Spellweaver 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on Kobuko

Lv 5planBlackthorn 3Brawler 2Spellweaver 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on Kobuko

Lv 6planBlackthorn 4Brawler 2Spellweaver 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on Kobuko

Lv 7planBlackthorn 5Brawler 2Spellweaver 2Flora Fatalis 1

Lv 822%− Kobuko, Fiddlesticks, Warwick

Lv 962%− Azir

Lv 1014%

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

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.4 · stage 5: 8.7 · stage 6: 9.1

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite, over 261 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	#4.08	-0.29	578
Malphite	Warmogs Armor	#3.98	-0.38	322
Malphite	Spirit Visage	#3.93	-0.44	174

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. #8Kojnid#AUTChallenger · 1,529 LP · level 9 · out at 5-2 · 2026-09-21
2. #2Snoodyboo#8907Challenger · 1,595 LP · level 10 · out at 7-1 · 2026-09-18
3. #4ea7 lbt1#0910Challenger · 1,478 LP · level 8 · out at 6-2 · 2026-09-15

Variations

Cores close enough to this one to be the same comp. Each line is what that version plays instead, how it placed and the games behind it; all of them are counted in the numbers above.

…and 5 smaller versions, 98 games between them. All of them are already counted in the numbers above; they are left off because no one of them is played often enough to plan around.

Traits

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

Blackthorn2next 4Brawler2next 4Avatar1Monolith1Elderwood1next 3Invoker1next 2Riftbeast1next 3Sprykin1next 3Vanguard1next 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 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.

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 6 averages 3.61 here, against 4.43 at Blackthorn 2 (499 boards)

  Item Extraction

By ruleSuits this carry Malphite is built for ability power here (658 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 (658 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.