Should You Main Malphite? Tier F
Malphite is tier F for maining. Only 1 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 922,790 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Almost nobody reaches the top on Malphite. 1 high elo main against 922,790 games played.
The numbers
Score 0.09 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 1 Challenger · 0 Grandmaster · 26 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 922,790 games played worldwide · 10.02% pick rate · 14.38% ban rate
Small sample. Only 26 tracked mains in the three major regions, so treat this position as indicative rather than settled.
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Malphite, similar situation. Not a very good champion domain. Everybody kind of plays it.
There's one player in challenger on three major servers and zero grand masters. So, this is going to be the first time we have zero absolutely zero grand masters. Not going to be the last, by the way.
14% ban and 10% pick rate. So, very high pick rate, very high play rate, very high ban rate. Shows up a lot.
So basically you're almost not going to be able to play him in like 1/4 of games or one one fifth of games and then like 20% of games you're not going to be able to play him. And when you do play him, you're probably not reaching challenger with him. So or or even GM.
So very tough. All right. Multiple hits by the way.
So we're going to move on to Malphite here. He's going to also go into the X tier just because we're seeing a lot of players play him.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.