Random post about Malphite

Malphite: Cuz who needs fun when you can have freelo?

I do not speak with any amount of exeggeration when I say that after Yorick and Taric have been reworked, Malphite is probobly the most boring champion in the game. And I say that as someone who genuinly think he is strong. Not only is he boring though, he is a contender for the easiest and most straight foward champion in the game. How to play Malphite like a pro? Play around your passive in lane (which you don't even need to in all lanes, just the harder ones), and know how to ulti. Boom, you're done. As long as you know that, a bronze malphite is about the same as a master tier Malphite.

If you don't belive me, lets look at his abilities.

His passive is a shield for 10% of his max hp, that refreshes when he hasn't taken dmg. This ability is pretty alright, nothing special. Unless a fight comes down to the wire where both champions are one hit away from death, his shield probobly didn't matter. It is semi-important to play around your shield in lane, and try to be a bit of a pussy when it's on cd.

His Q is a targeted skill that deals ignorable dmg, costs about 200% of your mana level one, as well as stealing some movement speed from your enemy, and its a decent ability. With iceborn+ Q you make sure pretty much noone is getting away unless you let them, but its not much else than that. You use this when you are running someone down, or away from someone. And that is basicly it. Nothing else to think about.

His W passivly increases his armor, and on activation, his basic attacks deals bonus damage to his target (which scales with armor) and enemies in a small area around his target. And wow, I though his Q was brainless. Half of this ability is passive, you don't even need to think about it, and the activation. Ok, here is how you know if you should use it. Are you hitting something in the face? If yes, press w. It doesn't matter if his w is actually up or not, cuz its not like it really does anything. At 500 armor (which is around what I usually get, maybe up to 600-650 hundred in extremely AD heavy matchups) his basic attacks deals: Drum roll pls, dun dun dun dun!!!! 150. WOW, ITS ALMOST LIKE IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER! Seriusly, half of the time, it feels like its just a activation of my iceborn more than something i use for actual damage. Yh, sure the passive is nice, giving around 70-100 bonus armor depending on how much you actually buikd, but jesus christ his w active is underwhelming.

His E deals dmg to enemies in an area around him and slows their attack speed by a hefty amount. Holy shit, the abilities somehow got even more simple. Again, the dmg is nothing but up to 50% attack speed slow is actually pretty massive, and can fuck up several adc's like and very hard. But that's it.

And then there is his R. Holy shit, for an ability so simple and straight foward, how is it soooooo gooooood! Like, for an engage, what else could you possibly want in a single ability? A pretty long ranged dash, that knocks up everyone it hits in a pretty decent radius. Like, it sounds so simple, but its just so effective. There is no other more reliable engage ability in the game. Sure it can be flashed, but so can almost everything else, except perhaps Maokais twisted advance (which has a much lower range and only roots one guy). And even then, it is pretty hard to flash, since it is so fast.

You build full tank, and you ulti shit, and then you go around being a nuisance with your q and e while not dying do to you being a fucking tank. And while Malphites damage is pretty low in actuallality (I will stand by that to the grave), it seems like alot since malphite can stay alive for long. Even among alot of tanks his damage is very low, almost support tier of low, but when you can not-die for so long, you get the chance to deal so much damage that it becomes alot of damage. More over, with added dmg from sunfire cape, abyssal, thornmail and iceborn, his damage can be respectable.

Is Malphite good? Yes, he is. His ultimate is good, and altough his abilities seem lackluster at first (which is becuase they are) when you get the chance to spam them into oblivion by not dying, they can have a big effect in the long run. Malphites laning is fine, but boring. If you are not against melee ad, you are going to get bullied though, do to having no sustain, no real engage except your ulti and hefty mana problems.

If you are desprate for elo and need a tank, pick up Malphite, he is great. If you want to actually have some fun with mechanics and decision making above "who should I ulti", then no, Malphite is not for you.