MalphiteTop Build: Items & Boots
The most-played Patch 26.19 Malphite build is Mercury's Treads, Frozen Heart, Thornmail, Sunfire Aegis, Kaenic Rookern, Randuin's Omen, Farsight Alteration: 5.56% of games, 58.72% win rate. Below are the boots, first items, starting items and summoner spells players pick most, each with its own win rate and game count.
Best Malphite Build - Highest Win Rate Items
Full Build
Early Build Order
Top Summoner Spells
Teleport + Flash59.5%Win Rate69.4%Pick Rate
Flash + Ignite59.1%Win Rate28.1%Pick Rate
Build Stats
This Malphite build focuses on a balanced mix of offense and defense. Build the core items first for your power spike, then adapt with situational items based on enemy team composition.
The core items for this Malphite build are Frozen Heart, Thornmail, and Sunfire Aegis. This item combination achieves a 58.7% win rate across 235 matches analyzed.
At full build, Malphite gains a total of 1250 Health, 275 Armor, and 100 MR, giving a strong power profile for a balanced playstyle.
Best Malphite Runes
Sorcery
Inspiration
Malphite Abilities
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Malphite build strength based on the items chosen in the build when compared to all builds across every champion. Strongest in: Physical Resistance, Magic Resistance. Lower in: Gold Efficiency, Magic Damage, Physical Damage.
The most popular starting items for Malphite are Doran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion, Stealth Ward with a 60.5% win rate and 34.5% pick rate.
- Frozen Heart S Tier
Frozen Heart
2,50054.13%Win Rate+3.37%WR Diff32.07%Pick Rate - Thornmail S Tier
Thornmail
2,45051.06%Win Rate+0.30%WR Diff47.05%Pick Rate - Sunfire Aegis S Tier
Sunfire Aegis
2,80051.32%Win Rate+0.56%WR Diff45.26%Pick Rate
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- Win rate by rank & game length
Malphite players complete Heartsteel first in 1% of games, winning 70.4% of them. The median first item is finished at 13:24 (25th to 75th percentile: 12:00 to 14:36).
First item
| Build | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Done at | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 70.4% | 1.0% | 13:24 | 27 |
 | 52.0% | 36.8% | 13:48 | 1,044 |
 | 52.7% | 7.8% | 13:18 | 220 |
First two items
| Build | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Done at | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
  | 56.5% | 9.8% | 20:42 | 248 |
 | 54.4% | 20.2% | 20:12 | 511 |
 | 59.7% | 3.0% | 21:00 | 77 |
Three-item core
| Build | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Done at | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 66.1% | 3.2% | 26:06 | 56 |
 | 61.0% | 5.8% | 26:36 | 100 |
| 56.6% | 9.6% | 25:30 | 166 |
Stages keep purchase order, so "A then B" and "B then A" are counted separately. Completion time is the minute the last item of the stage was bought. Boots are tracked separately.
Malphite players max Q > E > W in 68% of games, winning 50.9% of the 1,964 games that followed that order. The grid shows the most common ability at every level.
Q
E
W| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| W | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| R | 1 | 2 | 3 |
- Q > W > E: 17% of games, 50.6% win rate
- W > E > Q: 7% of games, 54.0% win rate
- Kaenic Rookern S Tier
Kaenic Rookern
2,90052.95%Win Rate+2.19%WR Diff23.59%Pick Rate - Randuin's Omen S Tier
Randuin's Omen
2,70053.28%Win Rate+2.52%WR Diff8.58%Pick Rate
- Mercury's Treads S Tier
Mercury's Treads
1,25052.74%Win Rate+1.98%WR Diff21.80%Pick Rate
- Farsight Alteration S Tier
Farsight Alteration
053.85%Win Rate+3.09%WR Diff8.61%Pick Rate
Combined statistics from all items in this Malphite build.
Magic Resistance:100
Movement Speed:45
Armor:275
Mana:400
Health:1250
Build Comparison
MRSpeedArmorManaHealth
This Malphite durable frontliner build is optimized for players looking to maximize their impact in League of Legends. Its 58.7% win rate comes from only 235 games, so treat it as an observation rather than a proven edge. The build's key strengths include strong physical damage mitigation, excellent magic damage resistance, and substantial health pool for survivability. This tanky Malphite build works best when your team lacks frontline presence. You can absorb damage and create opportunities for your carries to deal damage. The armor in this build makes it effective against AD-heavy enemy compositions with champions like assassins or marksmen. With a total gold cost of 14,600, this Malphite build scales into the late game. Focus on farming efficiently and reaching your Frozen Heart, Thornmail, and Sunfire Aegis power spike before taking major fights. For optimal results with this Malphite build, focus on proper itemization timing, positioning in teamfights, and adapting your situational items based on the specific challenges each game presents.
Strengths
- Strong physical damage mitigation
- Excellent magic damage resistance
- Substantial health pool for survivability
Malphite Top Boots, Starting Items & Summoner Spells (Patch 26.19)
6,600 gamesMost Malphite Top players rush Sunfire Aegis first (35% of games), finished at a median of 13.8 minutes. Plated Steelcaps are the usual boots (57%). The standard summoner spells are Flash + Teleport (72%). The game usually starts with Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion.
Malphite boots
| Option | Players | Win Rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
 Plated SteelcapsMost played | 57.0% | 53.8% | 3,759 |
 Mercury's Treads | 24.3% | 51.7% | 1,606 |
 Sorcerer's Shoes | 11.2% | 53.0% | 739 |
 Ionian Boots of Lucidity | 1.2% | 60.5% | 76 |
 Boots of Swiftness | 0.9% | 50.0% | 62 |
Malphite starting items
| Option | Players | Win Rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
  Doran's Ring + Health Potion ×2Most played | 40.2% | 52.0% | 2,648 |
 Doran's Ring + Health Potion ×2 + Stealth Ward | 30.4% | 52.1% | 2,002 |
 Doran's Shield + Health Potion | 8.4% | 56.1% | 554 |
 Doran's Helm + Health Potion | 6.4% | 56.2% | 420 |
Malphite summoner spells
| Option | Players | Win Rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
  Flash + TeleportMost played | 71.5% | 51.9% | 4,719 |
 Flash + Ignite | 25.5% | 54.8% | 1,683 |
 Exhaust + Flash | 1.5% | 44.0% | 100 |
Every option is listed with its own pick rate, win rate and game count from ranked games this patch. Options under 40 games are left out.
Malphite First Item and Core Build Timing
Which item Malphite players finish first and which three-item core they build, with the median completion minute and the middle 50% of games — the timing to beat if you want to spike before your opponent.
First completed item
| Items | Finished | Players | Win Rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sunfire Aegis | 13.8 min 11.9-15.6 min | 34.6% | 52.9% | 2,241 |
 Malignance | 12.0 min 10.6-13.8 min | 30.2% | 53.3% | 1,956 |
 Frozen Heart | 13.2 min 11.3-15.4 min | 8.5% | 54.3% | 552 |
 Iceborn Gauntlet | 14.4 min 12.4-16.0 min | 1.0% | 61.3% | 62 |
Three-item core
| Items | Finished | Players | Win Rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sunfire Aegis → Thornmail → Frozen Heart | 25.8 min 24.0-28.1 min | 9.1% | 59.2% | 360 |
  Malignance → Stormsurge → Rabadon's Deathcap | 27.5 min 25.5-29.4 min | 1.5% | 63.3% | 60 |
 Malignance → Sunfire Aegis → Kaenic Rookern | 27.2 min 25.8-29.7 min | 1.2% | 66.7% | 48 |
Every Malphite Top Item by Win Rate
The completed items Malphite players build most this patch, with the share of games each one appears in and its win rate. Situational items sit low in pick rate for a reason — read the win rate next to the game count.
| Option | Players | Win Rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| ThornmailMost played | 47.0% | 53.1% | 3,102 |
| Sunfire Aegis | 45.6% | 53.6% | 3,008 |
| Malignance | 36.5% | 53.1% | 2,408 |
| Frozen Heart | 35.6% | 55.3% | 2,347 |
| Kaenic Rookern | 24.4% | 54.1% | 1,611 |
 Hollow Radiance | 16.9% | 53.3% | 1,116 |
 Jak'Sho, The Protean | 13.7% | 58.2% | 907 |
| Stormsurge | 12.5% | 57.5% | 825 |
 Randuin's Omen | 9.5% | 57.4% | 627 |
 Shadowflame | 7.5% | 53.6% | 496 |
 Unending Despair | 3.6% | 57.5% | 240 |
| Rabadon's Deathcap | 3.4% | 54.5% | 224 |
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This core is in our ranked data: 59.2% win rate over 360 games.
- Health
- 500
- Armor
- 225
- Ability Haste
- 30
- Mana
- 400
- Move Speed
- 45