Malphite
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NABans, presence and fearless: Malphite across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 9.2%picked in 269 of 2,915 games
- Ban
- 11.2%239 bans over 2,127 games, against 16.6% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,915 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 233,241 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.Draft
- How to play itPress the Attack, then Malignance, Stormsurge, and Shadowflame: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compNo trait above other junglers; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 56).
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftNot enough series to settle it: raw counts only.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Jungle.
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.6%
- SoloQ
- 0.2%
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 11.2%
- SoloQ
- 16.6%
Not enough games to judge: core.
How to play it?
Press the Attack, then Malignance, Stormsurge, and Shadowflame: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesPress the Attack61% · 754
SpellsFlash + Smite99% · 1,232
SkillsWnot collected in soloQ- Malignance
- Stormsurge
- Shadowflame
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
No trait above other junglers; the most marked: Takes its kills in duels (rank 56).
- Its most marked traitTakes its kills in duelstop44%21% · junglers: 20%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other junglers
What marks it
Nothing above junglers.
Like other junglers
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Crowd control (CC)
- Jungle farm
What it is not
- Little map pressure
- Little damage
- No poke
- Stays home
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Not measured: the fact is not validated by the draft review.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 85% of junglers against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among junglers · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Gold at 15 min · rank 15 of 100 among junglers-313 · median +6
- Gold at 20 min · rank 15 of 100 among junglers-571 · median +64
- Map pressure · rank 3 of 100 among junglers3.1 · median 4.7
- Absorbs damage · rank 51 of 100 among junglers855 · median 855
- Plays teamfights · rank 45 of 100 among junglers51% · median 52%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 56 of 100 among junglers21% · median 20%
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 43 of 100 among junglers0.7 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 12 of 100 among junglers12% · median 17%
- Jungle farm · rank 55 of 100 among junglers66 · median 66
- Invade · rank 13 of 100 among junglers6% · median 7%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
No pair measured in amateur play on this side.
Ban it or pick it?
Not enough series to settle it: raw counts only.
Pick rate as Jungle
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+0.2%1,092 picks of 466,479ban 16.6% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.6%27 picks of 4,328ban 11.2% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.1%3 picks of 2,214bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
26.6% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as JungleNot enough series yet: published from 30.