HexComps Set 18 · patch 18.5

Executioner Malphite AP

Fast 8Difficulty: Medium Patch 18.5

Fast 8 AP comp: Malphite tanks alone up front, Zyra and Soraka carry, and 3 Executioner with 3 Summoner hold the board together.

Malphite

★★Amumu

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Final board

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How to play

Fast 8 Keep a healthy economy, reach level 8 early in stage 4 and roll there for your 4-cost carries.

Levelling

42-1
52-5
63-2
74-1
84-2Roll down
95-5

Play it when

You open with Blossom, Elderwood or Spellweaver units and AP components.
You get Item Extraction, Cybernetic Uplink or Solo Plate.
Your early board is strong enough to reach level 8 at 4-2 with gold to roll.

Game plan

2
Stage 2
Open with a strong AP board – Blossom is ideal, Elderwood or Spellweaver units work too – and slam generic AP items and Malphite's tank items to win streak. An early Gargoyle Stoneplate is never wasted. Level 4 at 2-1 and 5 at 2-5.
Rakan Yorick Karma Yunara LeBlanc Alistar
3Blossom 2Juggernaut 2Spellweaver
3
Stage 3
Add useful 3-costs such as Fiddlesticks and Azir and put items on whichever units are upgraded. Level 6 at 3-2.
4
Stage 4
Level 7 at 4-1 and 8 at 4-2, then roll for Malphite and the 4-cost carries. Itemize whichever AP carry you upgrade first instead of tunneling on one of them.
5
Stage 5
Level 9 around 5-5 and cap the board with Alune, Lux or Ivern.

Why it works

Malphite is the core: as a Monolith he gains 10 Armor and Magic Resist for every enemy targeting him, so he can hold the front row by himself. Azir, Soraka and Kennen activate 3 Executioner – Precision, 15% Critical Strike Chance and a bleed that deals 25% bonus true damage over 3 seconds. Yorick, Azir and Zyra make 3 Summoner, which improves every summon effect by 50%: Zyra's plants attack more times, Azir's soldiers hit harder and Yorick's summons get more Health. Fiddlesticks and Soraka give 2 Flora Fatalis – every takedown heals your lowest-Health ally for 7% of their max Health, the comp's main source of sustain. When Soraka casts on a target she has already hit, three extra stars fall on it, so Rabadon's Deathcap and Spear of Shojin turn her into a second carry next to Zyra.

When to pivot

With AD items, play Ezreal instead of Kennen or Zyra – just don't run both Ezreal and Zyra, an extra frontliner is usually better. With an extra Blackthorn from an augment or a Blackthorn Emblem, drop Kennen at level 8 for Lux or Veigar, put the emblem on Zyra or Ezreal, sacrifice Soraka instead of Fiddlesticks and move her items to a 2-star Azir.