Malphite is extreme powerful right now

And potentially broken. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he became a highly contested pick at worlds.

Let's look at why he's so good right now. For starters, armor nerfs across the board should theoretically hurt him, right? Not quite, I made a post about this about a month ago. True tanks, with innate defensive steroids in the form of %damage reduction, resist steroids or passive resists weren't really hurt with these changes much. Regardless, they'd still be incredibly hard to kill. Malphite fits this role perfectly because of his passive, which is nothing to scoff at and his new W, which passively gains armor instead of relying on an active. Sure, he lost out on more potential armor but in exchange, his armor is always increased.

With and and maxing W second can easily have close to 300 armor by mid game. This is an absurd amount in the mid game because carriers aren't going to have any %pen, not to mention his E absolutely shuts down any hope of dpsing him down, it shits on ADCs dependent on auto attacks regardless. I've been saying this makes him pretty much auto win vs any heavy AD/AA comp, especially against AA heavy top laners and champions like who never really have any hope of killing him.

Let's look at what's meta right now, particularly what Malphite is extremely good against. For bot lane, the most common picks I've been seeing are , and . With new , and reinforced armor in the defensive tree (which stacks additively with randuins, if I'm not mistaken), Malphite takes a shit ton of reduced damage from crits. Ashe can never really kill him. Malphite is also incredibly good against Yasuo for this reason, and he's also very good with him - another reason you'll be potentially seeing him. Vayne and Trist aren't super depedent on Crit because of their ability to do damage with spells but they still do build it and both are pretty big on attack speed, something Malphite absolutely shuts down and because of unstoppable force, he's likely going to always be reducing their attack speed unless the carries are able to flash out of it, which effectively zones them out of a teamfight anyway.

I don't know if this means Malphite is absurdly broken or if he's just extremely good with and against this meta. But either way, I wouldn't be surprised if he starts popping up on your ban lists soon once worlds hit and post 5.18 after some of the juggernauts have been toned down. But I do know he's definitely incredibly good regardless. And I suspect we will be seeing that soon.