Malphite becoming a huge threat in top lane again?

I'm currently investigating player thoughts on Malphite in the top lane

From what I see in stats and gameplay, Malphite is becoming an "unstoppable force" in the top lane due to his ability to simply let the lane shove in, farm under tower, build Sunfire and then never die. He is a team fighting monster that can kill certain hyper carry's with zero damage built or ruin their damage output with attack speed slows, or even peel enemy dives. He has multiple wombo combo counter part champions (I.e. Yasuo, Wukong, Orianna, Annie ect.)

My second thought is that, a large portion of the champions who would counter Malphite in terms of raw damage are AD bruisers or squishy harass champs. For a literal rock that builds full tank, it just doesn't seem to matter. If you are disciplined enough to just farm under tower as Malphite more often than not... they are completely shoved in by the time you hit Lvl 6 and you score an easy kill with your jungler.

The way I see it... if you survive past 7-10 minutes without dying as malphite and stay within 20 or so farm. There's a good chance you can carry the game with no problem.

What do you guys think?

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