Off late it feels useless to build, people go clean through it, seems the best defense is killing them before they kill you, everything is true damage, % health or both, went full tank on a malphite vs a full ad team, thornmail, frozen heart, randiuns, tabi, sun fire, all of it did nothing i went down in less than 2 seconds 9/21 masteries.
That sounds like a useless build if you feel useless. Probably shoulda built liandry or abyssal or something.
%health is reduced by mr and armor(based on if it is ad or ap %dmg)
dont forget a LW will basically cut ur armor in half.
after armor nerf items impacts on many champion therefore... rule of a thumb...
average non tank champion only need 1 armor items... 6th could be defensive item if really trouble... average tank champion only need 2 armor items... they are frontline.... passive or bouns from champion's kit... might need more than 3 armor item (ram,mus taric, maphite, etc)
everything is true damage, % health or both, went full tank on a malphite vs a full ad team, thornmail, frozen heart, randiuns, tabi, sun fire, all of it did nothing i went down in less than 2 seconds 9/21 masteries.
14 Champions deal any significant amount of true damage. 12, if you don't consider Kog & Zyra's passive (since.. you know.. they're dead and so you won the fight) which makes it less than 10% of the Champions in the game.
And I doubt if you were truly against "all AD" that you were dying in "less than 2 seconds." Just with some napkin math, Malphite with those 5 armor items (and I threw in an IBG for free because you only had 5/6 items) would give Malphite 520+ armor, just factoring items and his passive armor boost, without runes or masteries. Every 100 armor effectively gives him +100% effective health. So that would give him 520% effective health against physical damage. Those items also give him over 3000 health at level 18, meaning you effectively can take 15,600+ physical damage or more. I really don't think this happened in less than 2 seconds. Even Vayne with all her true damage would take longer than 2 seconds to kill you.
Just saying - take things in context. Malphite's job is only to live long enough to initiate/peel for his team. If you went into a 1v5 and died, that's on you. If you went into a 5v5 and still got aced, then your team lacked whatever communication, coordination, or composition to succeed, and in that case it isn't the armor's fault.
I see your problem. You don't realize that tanks are strongest in the mid game, and that it is imperative when facing a damage heavy team to end the game before the game goes too long and they all have tank melting items.
