How to win lane as Malphite against Neeko · 53.07% win rate over 603 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Neeko | Neeko owns level 1-2 — you have no trade pattern and eat her Q Blooming Burst poke and E tangle-barb chip before Granite Shield can buffer it. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | It evens out as W Thunderclap and Granite Shield start soaking her Q poke and she can't yet all-in your refreshing shield. |
| Level 3 | Malphite | W Thunderclap armor plus Ground Slam let you farm through her Q and clear her wave stack so Blooming Burst never snowballs off bounces. |
| Levels 4-5 | Malphite | Granite Shield plus your armor stack let you sit on the wave through her poke while she still lacks the burst to punish you. |
| Level 6 | Malphite | Unstoppable Force interrupts her channeled Pop Blossom and knocks her up before her AOE stun lands — your hardest all-in and roam threat. |
| First item | Malphite | Your armor first item plus Q's slow lets you flank-R her squishy frame from fog before she can E-root into her combo. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | A scaled Neeko reclaims the 1v1 with full AP burst and her W clone to dodge your R, so group and use R to flank her instead of dueling. |
Levels 1-2 are Neeko's — I have no trade pattern yet and just eat her Q Blooming Burst poke and the chip off her E tangle-barb, so I last-hit at range and let Granite Shield soak what I can. Don't walk into the wave where her Q bounces off minions hit me twice. By level 3 W Thunderclap and E Ground Slam come online and Granite Shield refreshes between her pokes, so I stop bleeding — farm through it and wait for my real windows rather than contesting her at level 1.
The full Malphite vs Neeko 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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