Nerf AP malphite

TheAbyssWalker48·8/3/2019, 7:31:34 AM·22 votes·6,089 views

Dont you just love it when a champ meant to be played as a tank is able to build full AP, press R and instantly delete your carry with an ult thats on a 30 second cooldown? Above all else, AP malphite is one of the most unfun things you can possibly play against because all he has to do is press R and win the game. He has a point and click slow to make it easy to press R and win, and since he built ap, that slow also does a ton of damage to. Its like playing against a late game veigar in the mid game, and instead of having 2 skill shots and a cage, there are no skill shots, hes tanky, and he doesnt even have to get you low for the ult to do major damage, he can just ult in, take away all or at least 75% HP, and just clap to kill you, it wouldnt be so bad if this was single target, but its not, its AOE, so unless your tank, if you have one that is, bodyblocks and dies in your place, then you get clapped and your screen becomes grey like an old horror movie, because leagues balancing team is terrifying.

Easy way to fix this would be to lower the AP ratio on the ult, or give it a longer CD, or both, but since they are trying to buff Malphite, reducing the AP ratio would probably be best.

27 Comments

Jerry SeinfeId8/3/2019, 1:35:23 PM6 votes

when a champ meant to be played as a tank is able to build full AP,

?? malphite is a burst mage, the heck you talking about?

tank malphite sounds like some extremely boring shit. why would you ever go tank on malphite?

Damocles Down8/14/2019, 12:19:15 PM5 votes

I agree with this. Riot's balance team is shit because they have the guy who was the lead of the balance team in WoW for the longest time. AP malphite shouldn't be as terrifying as it is right now. They did away with so many hybrid champion builds, why leave this one alone? It was bad enough before they buffed him. Yet, instead of nerfing his scaling, they just buff his abilities and leave his scaling intact. Let him be one or the other, not both, especially not at the same time. He's meant to be a tank, not an AP assassin who can 100-0 people as soon as he gets lv6 and 1 full AP item. 2 AP items and the rest tanky and he can still 1shot squishies in mid-game.

Zezilian8/3/2019, 8:53:05 AM4 votes

Have you ever tried quicksilver sash on your adc ? In fact AP Malphite is very one way play, he can be deleted easily if he is isolated or member of team has MR and can bait him.

MalphiteTheRock9/27/2019, 6:39:02 PM2 votes

As a ap malphite main, i can give you a tip. Play tanks, Ap malphite is garbage against a tank, yes i agree his burst is REALLY high. But you can also focus malph really early, so malphite doesn't get fed early so he wont do that much if he doesnt get fed, if you/your teammates play def the only way for him to get gold his AP build costs alot, however when you play top trynda,yi (for some reason) literally any mele champion that requires mainly AA to kill, is pretty much screwed when playing against malphite. You can try playing a champion that has high poke dmg. You can also try like... Banning him? the build i use: item 3285 item 3152 item 3157 item 3116 item 3020 item 3089 it costs 15900 gold total. he would have to kill: -53 champions. or -127 minion waves (before 15:00). or -108 minion waves (before 17:15). or -106 minion waves (before 25:00). or -81 minion waves (after 25:00). Good Luck with your future matches. [slayer-jinx-wink]

Bot11000299919912/1/2019, 10:22:37 PM1 votes

Needs a buff honestly he cant one shot anyone unless they are below 50% health and if the have any sheilds or heals you cant do anything.

ZeroSixTeen9/22/2019, 1:31:21 AM1 votes

Ap malphite is the definition of no counterplay. The only option you have is to flash the ult, and that can be done but not if he flash ults you or if he ults from fog of war. and you have flash every 5 minutes, so IF you can flash it you can only flash 1/10 ults. Its so blatantly obvious that this champion is a problem. Now its just sitting there as a giant display of the incompetence that exists within the balance team. It should not be possible for such a thing to exist within the game for such a long time without the balance team seeing it, but somehow this balance team still manages to do it. IMO such a thing alone would be more than enough reason to fire people. Its your only job to look for these things and deal with them, you are utterly incapable of it apparently. Just nerf it into the ground until someone can rework it so there is some gameplay in it.

K0usen9/28/2019, 3:30:31 PM1 votes

They could actually do a lot of things to nerf him without nerfing the damage, like make it so his ult stops at the 1st unit he encounter, so you can at least hide behind your minions or your tank, or just make his aoe smaller. i don't get why this sh*t has been rampant for so long. And Aram isn't even fun anymore once there is a malph in a team as everytime he uses R+E he takes out at least 2 champs.

Xavanic8/3/2019, 7:47:08 AM1 votes

you clearly haven't played against a good illoai if you think malph is the most unfun