Could Riot bring back Malphite to the jungle ?

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa·Aug 4, 2018·2 votes·988 views

As a malphite main : 430k mastery points.

I want to ask if riot could bring back the rock into the jungle (welcome to the jungle lol).

Malphite had the perfect tools to jungle : the slow on the q and the ult however since riot removed his splash damage from his basics and made them an active malphite struggles a lot cleaning the jungle. And honestly the tree (maokai) can jungle but why the rock cannot ? You find a lot rocks in the jungle, it should be malphite's environnment.

Could you dig to find a solution ? I know that riot wanted to make him a burst Ap character too. That's why they removed the ad ratios on the w. Why not giving him permanantly the splash damage from basics like in the past and the active only improving autos damage with an ap ratio ?

Cheers and stay solid :P !

4 Comments

Unstoppable MonkAug 4, 20181 votes

What if Malphite just got exp for acting like a rock sitting around walls all game? Sort of like Ivern, but just sitting there lmao.

TheSingularityAug 4, 20181 votes

They removed the ad ratio because it made no sense for it to be there.

As for bringing him to the jg. Only a metashift will work imo.

Buffing his kit could make him over bearing in lane due to his simple nature (think pre rework akali). He's relatively uninteractive pre 6 as all tanks are. He could very easily become season 6 nautilus top. Who just beats everyone due to wave clear and dmg.

No tanks apart from amumu are any good in the jg atm which sucks sure. So unfortunately you'll just have to wait for a meta shift.

Try giving smite/ignite with tank/domination (healing and true dmg ) page a go. If you're clears are bad as go bramble vest into cinderhulk.

Smite ignite will be more risky than when I did it with naut, as you lack a non ult gap closer but the ignite allows you to fight for scuttle and at least trade 1/1 if they invade.

MOuHahaHAhahaaaaAug 4, 20181 votes

With the ad ratio and the splash damage malphite was more a bruiser than a tank. The old malphite could fight a way lot easier bruisers. The only time i got 10 times victories for the placment games was with malph ad top or junglem however riot said that they wanted him to be an ap oriented character. Since this time every malphite loses most of the time every single fight against any bruiser. In the past you could easily take a darius 1v1 now dont even try. The old w also gave +40% ad damage.

They never did any compensation for killing the bruiser aspect and jungle aspect of malphite.

Need Gold 4 TentAug 4, 20181 votes

He's still a viable jungler, except that you actually have to put points in E rather Q despite Q being the better ganking tool. It makes him the "I'm not interacting with anyone until 6" jungler that everyone hates like MasterYi Tryndamere