Malphite's damage needs a nerf bad

God Went MIA·Jan 7, 2016·5 votes·1,277 views

Malphite is supposed to be a tank, and is designed with the kit of a tank, the abilities of a tank, and would still be a great champion if he actually did the role of a pure CC tank. However, for some reason, Riot thinks its ok that he builds 1 ap item and does the most damage in a teamfight. He can 1v1 bruisers in melee because of his e, and instantly kill every squishy with his ult and make the rest easy cleanups. If you pick wukong or yasuo with him its complete freelo. He should be there for CC, not to do the most damage on the team.

2 Comments

YumaS2AstralJan 7, 20162 votes

I guess that the reason why Malphite is strong is mostly because of the meta.

Armor items were nerfed, so Malphite, which is THE armor tank, is needed to counter all those pesky ADCs and AD assassins/fighters. Malphite is one of the very few champions left that still has synergy with Thornmail, thanks to his passive armor increase.
Malphite has one of the very few remaining attack speed slows. He and Nasus are strong because of this, but Malphite has much better peeling potential and teamfighting presence.
DPS mages (which are the most popular type of mage at the moment) tend to counter Malphite in 1x1 situations, but since most of them are immobile, Malphite tends to work well against them on teamfights, especially due to their short range.
Malphite works well against most of the strong ADCs. Miss Fortune is immobile and is very vulnerable to him. Malphite is one of the very few tanky champions that can deal with Vayne (but one can argue that Vayne is also one of the very few ADCs that can deal with Malphite).
<------- This thing was nerfed so much that people aren't purchasing it nearly as much. Even the new Lord Dominik's Regards is not nearly as strong against Malphite as the old LW used to be.

VerxintJan 7, 20161 votes

He only has one hard CC, that's why his damage is strong he was actually originally designed to be a melee fighter, not a pure tank. Hence his unusually high attack speed