How to win lane as K'Sante against Malphite · 49.34% win rate over 1,218 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Two of the weakest level-1 tanks in lane — you only have Q, he only has Q, so it's a pure farm standoff. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | He picks up W to auto-poke and you pick up W or E to stay safe — neither can commit, so it stays even. |
| Level 3 | K'Sante | Your full Q-W combo lands: W stun into Q3 knock-up, and your passive magic damage ignores his stacked armor. |
| Levels 4-5 | K'Sante | This is your tank lane-control peak — you trade around his W/Q cooldowns and your magic damage out-values his armor. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | All Out gives you a duelist 1v1 that survives his R, but it strips your bulk and his R can still flip it — so it's a wash. |
| First item | K'Sante | Iceborn plus your passive magic damage out-skirmishes a pure-armor Malphite in the side lane — force fights now. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Both reclaim parity as teamfight tanks; his R engages your carry, your R peels it back, and neither solo-kills the other. |
Two tanks farming — this is dead-even until level 3. His Q chips you and slows you toward his W auto, so don't walk straight at him with your tiny early mana pool; last-hit at the tip of your Q instead. The key fact: he stacks armor, and your passive deals magic damage on a marked target, so the longer trades go the more you win them. Just don't get caught by his Q slow with your W charge down.
The full K'Sante vs Malphite report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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