How to win lane as Kled against Malphite · 55.02% win rate over 498 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even at best — his Q poke chips Skaarl's mount health while you have no spammable trade, so preserve your health bar and farm. |
| Level 2 | Kled | W comes online for the on-hit shotgun shots and his armor does nothing against them — first window to punish a tank who can only Q you back. |
| Level 3 | Kled | With Q plus E plus W you land the full re-E all-in, and your percent-max-HP Q shreds him while his armor stacking is irrelevant. |
| Levels 4-5 | Kled | You stack W procs and out-trade him with remount sustain every short trade, since his single Q can't answer your on-hit burst. |
| Level 6 | Kled | Your R re-engages and extends roams while his is a long-cooldown engage you can bait — commit hard whenever his ult is down. |
| First item | Kled | Eclipse or Trinity sheen proc plus percent-HP Q on a low-MR armor tank is your power peak — force every all-in here. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | He scales into an AP-immune frontline and a teamfight R, so close lane before two items or pivot to picks rather than dueling a tank. |
Malphite has no answer to my level 2-3 all-in — he stacks armor, but my Bear Trap on a Rope deals percent-max-health damage and my W shotgun shots are on-hit, so his armor barely matters. Level 1 is the only even window: his Q poke chips Skaarl's mount health while I have no spammable trade back, so I just farm and preserve my health bar. The second I have W and then E, I land Q, yank myself in, and re-E through him with W procs firing — that trade chunks him hard and he can only Q me back.
The full Kled 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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