Malphite vs Irelia Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Two very different profiles meet in the Top lane: Malphite the tank/mage hybrid, Irelia the fighter/assassin hybrid. The sample behind this page is 1,828 games from patch 16.13.1, and Malphite wins 55.8% of them. That is 5.8 points above even, so Irelia is one of the matchups Malphite can lean on.
With both sitting in melee range (125 against 200), neither side gets a free poke pattern.
Shared damage type here — mixed for Malphite as well as Irelia. Malphite opens on 665 health and 40 armour, Irelia on 630 and 36. By level 18 that becomes 2433 health and 124 armour for Malphite against 2585 and 116 for Irelia.
A missed Unstoppable Force from Malphite hands Irelia the window to land Defiant Dance. Whoever spends Unstoppable Force or Vanguard’s Edge first hands the other a window.
Irelia is the more demanding of the two to pilot (5/10 versus 2/10), which quietly shapes the win rate. A 1,828-game window is wide enough to trust the direction, narrow enough to shift.
FAQ
Yes — Malphite holds the statistical advantage in this matchup. Malphite wins 55.8% of the recorded games.
55.8% from Malphite's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
1,828 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Malphite build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Malphite build page.