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Malphite needs to be gutted.

Kadranos·9/25/2019, 7:58:08 AM·12 votes·1,666 views

So..how long are we going to let this roaming nuclear missile stay the way he is?

It's honestly ridiculous he has gone this long without being touched. He free farms in jungle, builds his AP item pool, and literally plows into your team or carry and instantly kills them, and there is nothing you can do except be pissed off that he got through ban phase.

What does it take for you, Riot, to make ACTUAL, NOTEWORTHY balance changes? It's never fun to play against,and there is no counterplay(save a banshees veil/heaps of MR)(which void staff makes useless by the way) or an insanely fast reaction time with a flash/zhonyas, ping permitting.

"Oh, he isn't picked often enough." Terrible argument. Pick rate shouldn't be a defining factor in balancing. "Oh, he has to scale." Wrong. He killed my carry at 6 with one R,E,W,Q combo and just the completed jungle item. This just compounds as he gets more fed. "Just build MR." Great, I've piled my gold into MR items. I survive, but now I do no/negligible damage. See how self defeating that is?

Again, it's just compounding. Whether he kills your carry or not, they are still cc'ed long enough to have their team finish the job, or best case scenario you have to waste your flash for a very low CD ultimate move that will be up within the next minute or two, depending on the CDR at the time of use.

16 Comments

Hayaishi29/25/2019, 8:04:49 AM4 votes

LoL isn't about healthy gameplay anymore. It's about playing the most overpowered champion.

StormBladeMaster9/25/2019, 9:33:49 AM2 votes

AP Malphite always have been cancer, i'm surprised you only see it now because he is played a lot...

Having a 100% AP ratio scaling on his ultimate (who is very hard to dogde, low cd, big range, zone bump and unstoppable like Vi one) lmao... What could go wrong ?

His Q is a point and click and has a 60% AP ratio on it...

His E is a zone spell and has 60% AP ratio on it...

His R is a zone spell with 100% AP ratio.

And his W benefit from 20% of the AP.

Since it's not worth to tank in this meta where dmg is too strong compared to resistances, no wonder why people play AP malphite... These ratios are braindead...

Especially on his ultimate who have very little counterplay.

Keiaga9/25/2019, 9:28:48 AM1 votes

Ap malphite is balanced by the fact that hes useless whenever his ult isnt up. Banshees veil anditem 3814 give you a spellshield and offensive stats.

Theres a reason why ap malphite is stjll considered the off meta build

Yboat9/25/2019, 9:31:26 AM1 votes

Compared to other ap jungles he is not even that strong when it comes to 1 shots. If he is building ap he is made of paper.

Velasan9/25/2019, 11:36:52 PM1 votes

Why do people make these arguments and then add counter arguments as though they think they know what someone else will say? You enjoy talking to yourself?

Idk if Malphite is currently at a perfect balance right now... but does he need to be "gutted"... no. He is all burst with little follow up damage, has only one way to gain target access to the opponent which is to immediately R them.

If your argument is his damage is too high, ok fine maybe they can change his AP ratios so he doesn't gain as much from building AP items. Otherwise you're basically just saying, "I don't like playing against this champion so screw all the people who do by nerfing it into the ground."

Also, complaining that you have to itemize against the thing is killing you in game is pretty silly. There are a large number of anti AP items as well as some general anti burst items all of which come with damage attached to them. You can't build glass cannon... so what? Same thing happens when enemy has a fed ADC.