How to win lane as Malphite against Trundle · 56.12% win rate over 547 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Neither of us has a trade pattern at level 1 — I just farm on Granite Shield while he can only walk up and bite, which steals AD I'm barely using yet. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still even — his Q AD-steal threatens a sustain trade but I have no commit to punish, so I last-hit and concede nothing real. |
| Level 3 | Trundle | Trundle's bully phase: his Q steals my AD and out-sustains me while I have no R and only Granite Shield to soak his empowered autos. |
| Levels 4-5 | Malphite | W (Thunderclap) and E (Ground Slam) come online — my armor stack and E attack-speed slow start blunting his auto-reliant bites and even the trades. |
| Level 6 | Malphite | Unstoppable Force is my first all-in and he has no dash or stun to cancel it — the knock-up lands clean and the lane flips to me. |
| First item | Malphite | Stacking armor makes my W splash and E magic damage scale up while his AD-steal Q is wasted on a tank — this is my power peak. |
| Two+ items | Malphite | I out-frontline him: my armor-scaling E/W and game-winning R carry teamfights, though I still respect his Subjugate stealing my resistances in a straight 1v1. |
Trundle owns the opening stages and I just have to absorb it. His Q bite steals my attack damage every trade, so I make no progress autoing him and he out-sustains anything I throw — at levels 1-3 I have no trade pattern anyway, so I farm on Granite Shield and refuse to brawl. Do not stand in his W move-speed field trying to contest CS; he'll kite around me and bite again. The one good thing: his Q steal is wasted effort the more I lean tank, and he has no burst to punish a passive Malphite, so eating a little poke costs me nothing.
The full Malphite vs Trundle 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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