Malphite Wild Rift Counter: Champions & Tips

Malphite counter Wild Rift stats: All the Malphite info you could want with counter picks, general counters, item counter, lane synergy and more!

Shard of the Monolith

Role: Tank | Win rate: 52.4% | Tier: S

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Malphite is known for its extremely powerful ultimate, which can knock up multiple targets at the same time. He had thick armor but I penetrated it with champions that dealt true damage.

Exploiting Malphite’s weakness allowed me to easily win against him. Please join me in finding them below.

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Champion Counter Malphite

Discover all Top champions who counter Malphite.

Top

Malphite is weak in the early game, you should fight him during this phase to delay Malphite’s strength later.

Call on your jungler to gank Malphite, trying to kill him to give yourself an advantage.

The shield created from Malphite’s passive gives him safety. Harass him and poke him to take away his shield.

When reaching level 5, Malphite will become more aggressive. Malphite can gank with his ultimate. Avoid playing recklessly and immediately notify your teammates if he moves to other lanes.

Mid

As a long-range mid laner. You need to poke and harass Malphite, forcing him to retreat.

If your health is still low, go back because Malphite’s ultimate attack can kill you immediately.

Jungler

As a jungler, you should focus on ganking to help your teammates win against Malphite.

Bot

As an ADC, you need to keep your distance from Malphite and kite him. Don’t stand up too high because Malphite can catch you easily with his ultimate.

Support

As a support, you need to root, stun, or silence Malphite in combat so your teammates can kill him quickly.

If possible, block Malphite’s ultimate for your allies.

Control vision to know Malphite’s direction of movement.

Item Counter Malphite

Malphite wild rift counter items list:

Malphite deals a lot of magic damage with his ultimate, use magic resistance items to reduce his damage such as: Spirit Visage, Force of Nature, Dawnshroud, Mercury’s Treads.

Use items that cause grievous wounds and penetrate armor against Malphite Tank, as: Morellonomicon, Mortal Reminder.

Liandry’s Torment is an item that deals damage based on % of health.

You can kite Malphite easily with items that slow down his movement speed such as: Rylai’s Crystal Scepter, Iceborn Gauntlet.

If you activate Stasis Enchant at the right time when Malphite uses his ultimate, you will dodge it.

Use Quicksilver Enchant to remove the negative status effects that Malphite inflicts on you.

How to counter Malphite ?

Malphite wild rift counter tips:

You should do something at the beginning of the game to limit Malphite’s power later.

Poking and retreating are effective measures to counter Malphite. Suitable for ADC, or Mage.

Poke frequently to prevent shield regeneration from Malphite’s passive.

Keep Malphite’s health low. If possible, kill him before the fight takes place.

Avoid grouping tightly together because you will create an opportunity for Malphite to kill 5 lives at the same time.

Do not fight in small areas because Malphite’s ultimate will maximize its power.

Malphite often increases armor, so champions that deal magic damage and true damage should be prioritized.

Strengths:

• Tanky.
• Great initiation.
• Good CC.
• Great engage.
• Good roaming potential.
• Strong in team fights.
• Burst damage with ultimate.
• Good escape tool.

Weaknesses:

• Lack of mobility.
• Mana hungry.
• Weak before level 5.
• Useless without ultimate.
• Useless between combos.
• Easy to kite.

Malphite Matchups

Matchups	Win Rate	Game
vs Malphite vs Lucian	69.06%	139
vs Malphite vs Graves	63.19%	163
vs Malphite vs Vayne	62.70%	638
vs Malphite vs Master Yi	61.86%	97
vs Malphite vs Zed	60.77%	130
vs Malphite vs Yasuo	59.30%	823
vs Malphite vs Tryndamere	59.39%	1933
vs Malphite vs Wukong	59.17%	240
vs Malphite vs Jayce	58.24%	6176
vs Malphite vs Pantheon	57.12%	1327