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Elderwood Malphite

Also called Malphite Fast 9 · Elderwood Fast 9

Fast 9High Win %Carried by MalphiteA 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+: 138 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

When

  • #4.04 alone62% of games
  • #4.14 with one other29% of games

Others on Malphite in the lobby, over 420 games of this patch at all ranks.

Level plan

  1. Stage 2 Lv 4 plan
  2. Stage 3 Lv 6 plan
  3. Stage 5 Lv 8.4 measured
  4. Stage 6 Lv 9.1 measured

Its games end at Lv 8 27% · Lv 9 57% · Lv 10 12%

Carries

Malphite 3★ on 0% of boards

Gargoyle StoneplateWarmog's ArmorSpirit Visage Gargoyle Stoneplate, Warmog's Armor, Spirit Visage

Malphite

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average.
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: #4.04 · 1 other: #4.14
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.4 · stage 6: 9.1
Games end
Lv 8 27% · Lv 9 57% · Lv 10 12%
Vs its level
Finishes at level 8.8 on average. Boards at its levels average 3.77 across every comp; this one averages 4.19, 0.42 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 9, 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.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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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.

5Gnar★
  • Thief's Gloves
  • Sterak's Gage
5Lux★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Void Staff
  • Jeweled Gauntlet
4Ezreal★★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Last Whisper
  • Infinity Edge
4Malphite★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmog's Armor
  • Spirit Visage
carry
or
  • Lillia
  • Maokai
3Azir★★
  • Guinsoo's Rageblade
  • Hextech Gunblade
  • Archangel's Staff
3Fiddlesticks★★
2Alistar★★
5Aluneflex
1Veigarflex

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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, Alistar and Fiddlesticks.

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

Stage 3 Level 6 plan

Add LeBlanc and Azir.

Stage 5 Level 8 measured

Its players average 8.4 when they go out in stage 5.

Add Gnar, Ezreal and Malphite; sell Rek'Sai, Veigar, Alistar and LeBlanc.

27% of its games end at level 8.

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

Stage 6 Level 9 measured

Its players average 9.1 when they go out in stage 6.

Add Alune, Lux, Alistar and Veigar.

57% of its games end at level 9.

Its games end around round 5-7 on average, with 6 gold left.

How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 419 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned.

73%827%957%1012%
Lv 4planRek'SaiVeigarAlistarFiddlesticks2221Malphite’s items on Alistar
Lv 5planRek'SaiVeigarAlistarLeBlancFiddlesticksAddedLeBlanc3221Malphite’s items on Alistar
Lv 6planRek'SaiVeigarAlistarLeBlancAzirFiddlesticksAddedAzir3321Malphite’s items on Alistar
Lv 7planAlistarAzirFiddlesticksMalphiteVeigarRek'SaiLeBlancAddedMalphite14321
Lv 827%GnarEzrealMalphiteAzirFiddlesticksAlistarLuxSorakaAddedGnarEzrealLuxSorakaSoldVeigarRek'SaiLeBlanc2113322
Lv 957%AluneGnarLuxEzrealMalphiteAzirFiddlesticksAlistarVeigarAddedAluneVeigarSoldSoraka111333221
Lv 1012%AluneGnarLuxEzrealMalphiteAzirFiddlesticksAlistarVeigarSorakaAddedSoraka211133332

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

How these rows are made

Level 8 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.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Malphite, over 420 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 itAvg PlaceShare of games
Nobody else#4.0462%
1 other player#4.1429%

Questions

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

How do you play Elderwood Malphite in TFT Set 18?

Fast 9. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.1 on average. Its games end most often at level 9 (57%).

What items does Malphite need?

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

Is Elderwood Malphite good in patch 18.5?

Not graded yet: 175 games at all ranks in the last 7 days, and a grade needs 400. Its average place over them is #4.22.

Is Elderwood Malphite contested?

Contest costs it little: with nobody else on Malphite it placed #4.04 (62% of games), with one other #4.14 (29%), over 420 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.

ChampionItemAvg Placevs compGames
MalphiteGargoyle Stoneplate#4.08-0.14224
MalphiteWarmog's Armor#4.02-0.20103
MalphiteSpirit Visage#3.92-0.3061

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 9AluneGnarKennenLuxMaokaiEzrealLilliaFiddlesticksAlistar3.39avg place67 gamesPlaysMaokaiLilliaKennenInstead ofMalphiteAzirVeigar
Lv 8AluneLuxAmumuEzrealMalphiteSorakaAzirFiddlesticks6.15avg place55 gamesPlaysAmumuAluneInstead ofGnarAlistar

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.

#2.51

Blackthorn 6: averages 2.51 here, against 4.75 at Blackthorn 2 (214 boards)

#3.58

Elderwood 5: averages 3.58 here, against 3.97 at Elderwood 3 (274 boards)

#3.87

Flora Fatalis 2: averages 3.87 here, against 4.13 at Flora Fatalis 1 (346 boards)

AP carry

By ruleSuits this carry: Malphite is built for ability power here (228 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier CapsHold the LineSoul AwakeningDark RitualDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTSeraphim's StaffTons of Stats!
1 moreStand United
Works against it: Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleWrong damage type: Malphite is built for ability power here (228 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.

More about this comp

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, best placed first. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

  1. #1클레스메이트#KR1Challenger · KR · 1,719 LP · level 10 · 2026-10-19
  2. #8실력과운#본캐임Challenger · KR · 1,507 LP · level 8 · out at 4-6 · 2026-10-18

Traits

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

Attuned1Avatar1Monolith1Blackthorn3next 4Elderwood3next 5Spellweaver3next 4Brawler2next 4Executioner2next 3Flora 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.

TraitPlacement at each tier
Blackthorn24.7514543.939862.5169
Elderwood33.9720253.5872
Executioner24.4913334.4412643.5770
Flora Fatalis14.1319723.87149

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+138#4.1855.8%21.0%
All ranks175#4.2254.3%19.4%

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.

Also played

Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.