Malphite·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Malphite Mid build, you should take Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Malignance as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Lich Bane. For your last 3 items, you should build Nashor's Tooth, Rabadon's Deathcap and finish with Cryptbloom. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 50.6% winrate over 18 779 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Malphite Mid build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Cheap Shot with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Malignance, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Lich Bane as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Nashor's Tooth, Rabadon's Deathcap and Cryptbloom. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 50.2% win rate over 1 736 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Second Wind with Overgrowth in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Thornmail as a third item. You want to finish the build with Frozen Heart, Kaenic Rookern and Unending Despair. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 53.6% win rate across 627 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Malphite Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Manaflow Band with Transcendence as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Thornmail as third item. The last 3 options are Frozen Heart, Randuin's Omen and Jak'Sho, The Protean. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 59.4% win rate over 283 matches played.

Situational Malphite Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Malphite build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.