What's up with the malphite nerf?

StoryDuck·Feb 12, 2016·2 votes·859 views

Like the title. Why is Riot nerfing his E and base regen? This seems kind of random and unnecessary.

8 Comments

PennsFeb 12, 20163 votes

Because Malphite = freelo for like 5 patches now lel

xl Kirito lxFeb 12, 20161 votes

Longer then that.

StoryDuckFeb 12, 20162 votes

That's because ADC's are strong now. Malphite has always been strong against ADCs. As so many teams are picking 2 ADC (one in jungle/top and one bot) he should be doing well. This doesn't remove his ability to be a mid/late game anti-adc this just makes his already painfully hard (even against ADCs) laning phase harder.

Zero Skill TankFeb 12, 20161 votes

Malphite's laning phase is painfully hard for his opponents.

SasogwaFeb 12, 20161 votes

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That's because ADC's are strong now. Malphite has always been strong against ADCs. As so many teams are picking 2 ADC (one in jungle/top and one bot) he should be doing well. This doesn't remove his ability to be a mid/late game anti-adc this just makes his already painfully hard (even against ADCs) laning phase harder.

Then nerf adc's if they are too strong, instead of nerfing their counters (Rammus, Malphite). Like cmon, if we have adc's everywhere, toplane, jungle, botlane, midlane (corki) why would we ever nerf their counters? Seems like adc's are more of a problem than Malphite. Malphite still get rekt by quite a bunch of AP toplaners.

MunchCrunchLunchFeb 13, 20161 votes

malphite is one of the best champions in the game. i don't think hes op i just think he fits in a lot of team comps. hes very well rounded.

Shadow GilgameshFeb 13, 20161 votes

I mean... right now it's pretty much "be in lane till you can back for chain or negatron, then you can bully anyone who isn't a sustain laner" and even sustain laners have problems once he finishes sunfire and starts building gauntlet or frozen heart to help his mana issues. And he's not exactly weak post laning

I'm just glad they went with nerfing base damage and health regen and not armor scalings or ult damage or anything.