Malphite

Malphite is an AP tank in the jungle, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a situational pick — a 51.4% win rate, 0.7% pick rate, 7,878 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Malphite is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.

How Malphite wins: landing engage and starting fights on Malphite's terms, and grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Malphite tips the fight. The kit grades 10/10 engage, 10/10 teamfighting. Play around where Malphite is thin, split-push and disengage (3/10, 2/10), and the enemy loses their angle.

The most-played core build is Malignance, Stormsurge, Shadowflame, which holds a 45.3% win rate across 274 games this patch. Set the enemy team at the top of the page to see how the path shifts against that comp.

The matchup to respect is Sylas, where Malphite sits at just 39.1%, the lane swings the other way into Nami (56.5%), and on the team side, Malphite gains the most from a Vel'Koz (+11.4% pair win rate).