What's the point of even having one when you can have a squishy 
engage for you and get blown up just as fast as a 
with 400 armor because the adc built armor pen
OH NO HERE COME THE PPL SAYING MALPHITE ISN'T A TANK HES A "VANGUARD"
Lovelle1 votesMalphite gets blown up late game more these 
than anything else typically. Almost every mage can build these three items and no tank is going to survive it without either %damage reduction or %bonus MR scaling.
Offensive builds/masteries scale multiplicatively, while defensive ones only do for a select few champions and this honestly needs to change. The game is too heavily biased toward damage dealing champions.
LXII1 votesNope, it's always JUST the adc. Not the fact that he's absorbing mixed damage from 5 sources all at once.
Lovelle1 votes[{quoted}](name=CB Thea Queen,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Hg9lrgmd,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2016-10-16T08:50:48.675+0000)
Nope, it's always JUST the adc. Not the fact that he's absorbing mixed damage from 5 sources all at once.
Honestly, these days every damage-focused champion can kill tanks on their own if they build enough penetration. Assassins can even pull it off, when they should be having the hardest time doing it. Tank itemization is simply lackluster.
These are the best three tank items, the others need buffs. Not even these are enough to keep tanks and bruisers from blowing up against the wealth of penetration and %hp damage.
