Can We Talk About Malphite?

As Riot goes over champions with poor playstyles, can we please discuss and look over Malphite for a complete rework? In terms of pure balance I think he's in a decent spot, but his entire kit tends towards boring, detached gameplay, both for Malphite and his opponents.

Look at Malphite in lane. He does basically one thing, spam Q until his enemy wants to scream. As a point and click nuke, there's literally no counter-play besides not getting in range and playing passive. If you try to engage it steals your move speed, giving Malphite the ability to further disengage. Add to the fact that Malphite needs to completely disengage to restore his passive, and you get some of the most boring matchups in the game in Malphite lanes.

After lane Malphite quickly becomes an ult bot, which is it's own issue. There's almost no reason to consider Malphite during teamfights after his ult is down. He doesn't do enough damage across his other spells to give him the power of a bruiser and his Q isn't spammable enough to be extremely useful. His ult, while great, is all that defines him outside of lane, which is a problem.

I think they need to make him a more distance based character; boulders do gain speed as they roll down hill. Make his Q a skillshot that gains damage and slow as it travels, and make his ult the same. At the same time, shift damage away from his ult and Q, and give him more utility and damage in his W.

I'd like to see a Malphite that's fun to play, and considering his high win rate with skilled players but still very low pick rate, I don't think we're there.