Blackthorn Malphite

Open in BuilderThe whole final board — the core at the star level it was measured at and with the carry’s items, and its flex picks — standing the way the board above does: by rule, and yours to move.

Game plan

How it’s played

Level 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.3 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

Build

Malphite Crownguard, Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmogs Armor · 570 games · #4.27

Components

Needlessly Large Rod ×3 · Giant's Belt ×2 · Tear Of The Goddess · Recurve Bow · Needlessly Large Rod · B.F. Sword

Contested?

Others holding Malphite / Azir: nobody else: #4.72 · 1 other: #4.86 · 2+ others: #5.10

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.3 · stage 5: 7.7 · stage 6: 8.3

Games end

Lv 7 27% · Lv 8 50% · Lv 9 19%

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, 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.

4Malphite★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Spirit Visage

carry

3Azir★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Hextech Gunblade
• Archangel's Staff

carry

2Warwick★★

1Rek'Sai★★

1Veigar★★

4Sorakaflex

4Zyraflex

3Fiddlesticksflex

Also in the flex slots Kha'Zix, Krug, Yorick

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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 7 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (30,951 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. Rows marked real are the boards of the games that went out at that level holding four or more of this comp’s units — real boards on the way to it, not its own games.

Lv 4planBlackthorn 3Spellweaver 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on Rek'SaiAzir’s items on Veigar

Lv 5real

Lv 6real

Lv 727%− Fiddlesticks

Lv 850%− Kha'Zix, Krug

Lv 919%

3★ targets Azir27% Kha'Zix26%

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.3 · stage 5: 7.7 · stage 6: 8.3.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite or Azir, over 10,831 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	#4.70	-0.20	21,934
Malphite	Warmogs Armor	#4.68	-0.22	11,545
Malphite	Spirit Visage	#4.63	-0.27	5,806

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	#4.27	570
Malphite	Gargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs Armor	#4.51	520
Malphite	Gargoyle StoneplateSpirit VisageWarmogs Armor	#4.38	370
Azir	Archangel's StaffGuinsoo's RagebladeHextech Gunblade	#4.34	379
Azir	Guinsoo's RagebladeHextech GunbladeRabadon's Deathcap	#4.42	216

Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×3, Giant's Belt ×2, Tear Of The Goddess, Recurve Bow, Needlessly Large Rod, B.F. Sword, Chain Vest, Chain Vest, Negatron Cloak

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 136 smaller versions, 10,433 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.

Blackthorn5next 6Monolith1Brawler1next 2Executioner1next 2Ravager1next 2Spellweaver1next 2Sprykin1next 3Summoner1next 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

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so there is no augment number on this page and none anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.