Blackthorn Malphite & Warwick

Game plan

How it’s played

2-cost reroll at level 8 Rolls at level 8 until its 2-costs are 3-starred: Warwick, Murkwolf.

Play it when

you hold Chain Vest and Giant's Belt

Roll

Level 8 around 4-2: about 118 rolls (236 gold) to 3-star Warwick, Murkwolf; about 138 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Build

Malphite Crownguard, Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmogs Armor · 102 games · #3.12

Components

Chain Vest ×3 · Giant's Belt ×3 · B.F. Sword ×2 · Needlessly Large Rod · Negatron Cloak · Recurve Bow

Contested?

Others holding Malphite / Warwick: nobody else: #3.63 · 1 other: #3.59 · 2+ others: #3.75

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.5 · stage 5: 8.0 · stage 6: 8.4

Games end

Lv 7 7% · Lv 8 61% · Lv 9 28%

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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. Under a unit, or: the champions its boards play in that slot instead, measured on its level-8 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.

4Brambleback★★

• Sterak's Gage
• Bloodthirster
• Hand Of Justice

or

• Kennen

4Malphite★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Crownguard

carry

3Azir★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Red Buff

3Kha'Zix★★

• Hand Of Justice
• Edge of Night
• Rabadon's Deathcap

or

• Veigar

3Krug★★

2Murkwolf★★★

• Hand Of Justice
• Edge of Night
• Blackthorn Emblem

2Warwick★★★

• Titan's Resolve
• Spear of Shojin
• Sterak's Gage

carry

1Rek'Sai★★

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at every level from 4, each with what it added and sold since the level above and the traits it has live (hover one for what it does). Level 7 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (2,594 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 4plan4Malphite’s items on Rek'Sai

Lv 5real4

Lv 6realAddedSold1422

Lv 77%AddedSold11333

Lv 861%Added114332

Lv 928%Added1143322

3★ targets Warwick67% Murkwolf44% Kha'Zix25%

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.5 · stage 5: 8.0 · stage 6: 8.4

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite or Warwick, over 1,424 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	#3.51	-0.13	1,520
Malphite	Warmogs Armor	#3.56	-0.08	880
Malphite	Crownguard	#3.27	-0.37	681

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	#3.12	102
Malphite	Gargoyle StoneplateSpirit VisageWarmogs Armor	#3.52	44
Malphite	Gargoyle StoneplateGargoyle StoneplateWarmogs Armor	#3.49	35
Warwick	Spear of ShojinSterak's GageTitan's Resolve	#3.47	398
Warwick	Hand Of JusticeSpear of ShojinTitan's Resolve	#3.90	42
Warwick	BloodthirsterSterak's GageTitan's Resolve	#3.83	40

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

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. #2Sacred Norris#HeheChallenger · 1,507 LP · level 9 · out at 6-5 · 2026-09-27
2. #21Whas#2110Challenger · 1,577 LP · level 10 · out at 6-5 · 2026-09-27
3. #3マクD#1910Challenger · 1,629 LP · level 8 · out at 5-7 · 2026-09-26
4. #6がなはる#JP1Challenger · 1,377 LP · level 8 · out at 5-3 · 2026-09-24
5. #2T2010T#CKTGChallenger · 1,367 LP · level 9 · out at 6-3 · 2026-09-22
6. #3がなはる#JP1Challenger · 1,377 LP · level 7 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-17

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 1 smaller version, 44 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 6Ravager3next 4Riftbeast3next 5Brawler2next 4Monolith1Rival1next 2Executioner1next 2Summoner1next 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 6 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 3.58 here, against 4.21 at Blackthorn 2 (1164 boards)

  Item Extraction

By ruleSuits this comp it 3-stars a 2-cost in 71% of its boards (2594)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+Crafted Crafting

2 more

Patience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

By ruleSuits this carry Malphite is built for ability power here (1831 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 (1831 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.