TFT CODEX

Blackthorn Malphite Spellweaver

Fast 8Carried by Malphite

Updated 28 Sep 2026, 06:05 UTC · Patch 18.3

CTier
#4.65Avg Place
48.1%Top 4 %
11.9%Win %
0.1%Play Rate
1,355Games

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.

Malphite

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.7 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 Malphite CrownguardGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs Armor Crownguard, Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmogs Armor · 111 games · #4.17
Components
Giant's BeltGiant's Belt ×2 · Needlessly Large RodNeedlessly Large Rod · Chain VestChain Vest · Chain VestChain Vest · Negatron CloakNegatron Cloak
Contested?
Others holding Malphite: nobody else: #4.66 · 1 other: #4.84 · 2+ others: #4.91
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.7 · stage 5: 8.1 · stage 6: 8.7
Games end
Lv 7 11% · Lv 8 50% · Lv 9 33%

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.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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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
4Sett★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
3Azir★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Hextech Gunblade
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
1Rek'Sai★★
1Veigar★★
4Ahriflex
2Warwickflex
1Yorickflex

Also in the flex slots Fiddlesticks, Lux, Zyra

Paste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.

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 (7,425 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.

711%850%933%105%
Lv 4planRek'SaiVeigarWarwickAzirBlackthorn 4Malphite’s items on Rek'Sai
Lv 5realRek'SaiVeigarAzirWarwickFiddlesticks
Lv 6realRek'SaiVeigarAzirFiddlesticksKobukoMalphite− Warwick
Lv 711%MalphiteAzirWarwickRek'SaiVeigarSettFiddlesticks− Kobuko
Lv 850%MalphiteSettAzirRek'SaiVeigarAhriWarwickYorick− Fiddlesticks
Lv 933%AhriMalphiteSettAzirRek'SaiVeigarYorickZyraLux− Warwick
Lv 105%LuxAhriMalphiteSettAzirRek'SaiVeigarYorickZyraFiddlesticks

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

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.7 · stage 5: 8.1 · stage 6: 8.7.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite, over 2,476 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.

Others holding itAvg PlaceShare of games
Nobody else#4.6644%
1 other player#4.8440%
2 or more#4.9115%

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.

ChampionItemAvg Placevs compGames
MalphiteGargoyle Stoneplate#4.63-0.135,006
MalphiteWarmogs Armor#4.68-0.082,469
MalphiteSpirit Visage#4.62-0.141,327

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

ChampionBuildAvg PlaceGames
MalphiteCrownguardCrownguardGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs ArmorWarmogs Armor#4.17111
MalphiteGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs ArmorWarmogs Armor#4.62101
MalphiteGargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateSpirit VisageSpirit VisageWarmogs ArmorWarmogs Armor#4.5264

Components to hold Giant's Belt ×2, Needlessly Large Rod, 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.

AddsLeaves outAvg PlaceGames
WarwickLux, Zyra5.501,297
Fiddlesticks, WarwickLux, Yorick, Zyra5.601,140
Fiddlesticks, Maokai, Morgana, SorakaAhri, Lux, Yorick, Zyra4.36711
Ivern, YunaraAhri, Malphite, Zyra4.79257
Fiddlesticks, Morgana, Soraka, YunaraAhri, Lux, Rek'Sai, Yorick, Zyra5.38209

…and 34 smaller versions, 1,650 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.

Blackthorn4next 6Brawler2next 4Monolith1Blossom1next 3Executioner1next 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.

TraitPlacement at each tier
Blackthorn25.3086345.033,12164.573,240
Blossom34.642,75654.2839874.29107
Brawler24.715,11344.05254
Executioner24.922,32733.8595343.43370
Flora Fatalis15.161,78724.651,405
Spellweaver24.824,12344.6591663.8074
Summoner24.762,45634.271,671

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.

BracketGamesAvg PlaceTop 4 %Win %
Diamond+1,355#4.6548.1%11.9%
All ranks2,481#4.7645.5%10.3%

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.