Even if malph doesnt build tanky, he still has tanky base stats
And yet is able to 1 shot champs while full AP, while still being a hell of a lot tankier than a lux or zyra.
Where is the fairness? I'll wait.
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'a Hell of alot tankier' is a bit exaggerated here
Malphs tankiness:
HP: 574.2 - 2104.2 Armor: 37 – 100.8 +10-30%from W(4-30 for his base armor for a total of 41-130) MR: 32.1 – 53.4 Passive shield: 57-210/10% of his HP) with an aditional ~22-60 armor, since we're talking full AP, he might get morellos for another 300 hp so 240 lategame shield
Lux tankiness:
HP: 490 – 1935 Armor: 18.7 – 86.7 MR: 30 – 38.5 W: 100-300+60%ap, so since we're talking full AP builts, it realistically has ~130-780, with probably ~480 @18(300ap)
Now Lets compare the effetive HP includeing shields @18
malph: vs Physical: 596(shield with the increased armor)+4839 = 5435 Vs magical: 3219
Lux: vs physical: 4492 vs magical: 3333
So the actuall difference in tankiness isn't that massive, especially when the usual %pen is added to the mix cause armor really is the only advantage that malph has over lux. Now let's look at what maph pays for it:
No hard CC in the base kit, no high ranged poke, no ranged waveclear, and his burst is on a 130-80sec base cd while putting him right into the middle of everything, reaching a total of 960+55% armor(104with passive up at 18 from base armor)+ 240%ap, else he needs to go melee and has a 560+140%ap+55% armor rotation
Lux has ranged AAs, high range on all her skills, ranged waveclear, ranged hard CC and her full burst is on a 80-40sec base CD and reaches 1180+250AP while standing 1 screen away while her base rotation also hit's from a screen away for 490+130AP, 680+150AP with one AA and 870+170AP if both passive procs are used.
So malph has way less range, no save waveclear, less burst on twice the CD and worse rotations outside of his ult-burst with also less CC outside of his ult.
Lux will not die 1 sec after her combo
Lux has ranged autos and doesn't go entire body first into the enemy team to oneshot the ADC. AP Malph is an assassin and if you compare his base stats to say Evelynn, then it's actually pretty fair.
Because malph is melee. If he fucks up once and misses his team is 4v5. (and yes that does happen, because people can flash his ult, or hourglass it, amongst others. And something like that can instalose your game late) Even with tanky base stats, if he's stunned in the middle of the enemy team he'll die in a second anyway.
Also: he's useless while his ult is down