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Malphite vs Volibear

How often does Malphite beat Volibear in Jungle?

Malphite into Volibear in Jungle: 45% observed win rate across 260 ranked games.

Global ranked sample: games from every region and every rank pooled together, not one server's stats. Data runs through patch 26.12; curves updated 2026-08-07.

By 15 minutes the median game has Malphite behind by 83 gold.

Malphite at 15:00

Typical gap to Volibear, from 259 games that reached 15:00.

Does Malphite counter Volibear?

No counter here: Malphite sits at 45% over 260 games. The swing lives in the spots below, so play the side you know better and chase the row that moves the number the most in this lane, then hold that lead through the first back.

Beating Volibear: the Malphite game plan

A gold lead at 10:00 puts Malphite at 58% across 115 games. Flip the lead and Malphite falls to 35% across 145.

The spotWin rateGames
Ahead in gold at 10:0058%115
Behind in gold at 10:0035%145
First blood53%158
+kills at 10:0053%73
+CS at 10:0053%149
0 deaths at 10:0056%86

Someone usually dies here around 7:53 in the median game, and level 6 lands near 6:54. Until your spike is online, respect the all-in.

Malphite's Jungle build, with receipts

Into Volibear specifically, Malphite finishes Sunfire Aegis first most often: 50.0% over 58 games of this matchup.

The most-finished Malphite core is Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, Kaenic Rookern: 50.7% across 822 games when all three got done. All matchups, patches 26.1-26.12.

Most games start Gustwalker Hatchling + Health Potion; the first finished item is usually Sunfire Aegis (5,230 games).

Skill plan: Malphite players max W first and take W at level 1.

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