Malphite Build Guide

LoL Malphite Build Guide

The Best Malphite Runes, Items, and Advice to Dominate Your Competition

106,939 Malphite Builds Analyzed

Best Items for Your Malphite Build

Sunfire Aegis Build Item for Malphite Sunfire Aegis
Thornmail Build Item for Malphite Thornmail
Warmog's Armor Build Item for Malphite Warmog's Armor
Anathema's Chains Build Item for Malphite Anathema's Chains
The best items to incorporate into your Malphite build are: Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, Warmog's Armor, and Anathema's Chains. Yet, as with our rune setups, you can also get great, focused, Malphite item builds further down for the specific enemy team composition you are fighting in your current match. Those who included these pieces in their builds had a higher win rate than players who utilized other Malphite builds.

Malphite Items to Defeat Focused Team Comps

Frostfire Gauntlet Item to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Frostfire Gauntlet
Frozen Heart Item to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Frozen Heart
Randuin's Omen Item to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Randuin's Omen
Dead Man's Plate Item to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Dead Man's Plate

Best Malphite Runes for Your Next Build

Grasp of the Undying Build Rune for Malphite Grasp of the Undying
Shield Bash Build Rune for Malphite Shield Bash
Bone Plating Build Rune for Malphite Bone Plating
Overgrowth Build Rune for Malphite Overgrowth
Biscuit Delivery Build Rune for Malphite Biscuit Delivery
Magical Footwear Build Rune for Malphite Magical Footwear
If you are fighting a varied enemy team comp, you should strongly consider getting Malphite the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes. In recent matches, he won the greatest percentage of his matches when using these runes. However, if you are playing a different enemy team composition, such as an AP centric or a tank focused team, you should instead look a little down to see the best Malphite runes to defeat your particular combination of foes.

Malphite Runes to Beat Dedicated Enemy Teams

Arcane Comet Rune to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Arcane Comet
Manaflow Band Rune to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Manaflow Band
Transcendence Rune to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Transcendence
Gathering Storm Rune to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Gathering Storm
Eyeball Collection Rune to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Eyeball Collection
Ultimate Hunter Rune to Fight a Specific Team Comp with a Good Malphite Build Ultimate Hunter

Guide to Playing with Malphite

  • Malphite is an extremely tanky champion with high armor and sustainability. Get armor and health items to further improve his sustain.
  • Use his ultimate, Unstoppable Force, to initiate teamfights and knock their entire team into the air.

Summary

We established our Malphite build recommendations by analyzing 106,939 recently ranked League rounds with him selected. We only propose the highest winrate Malphite builds that were built by ranked LoL players enough times for us to propose them. With so many games in our data, we are quite confident in our recommended builds.

Additionally, to view the best Malphite build designed for a different skill rank, please select a different one from the dropdown menu above. The calculated Malphite builds will update to reflect that division’s meta.