Doesn't Malphite Seem a bit small/unintimidating to you?

Ascilith·9/27/2014, 6:40:27 AM·3 votes·1,440 views

I feel like Malphite could use some loving on the skin/texture update side of things. While the champion himself is very fun, I feel like the enormous rock golem looks kind of short and sad looking when compared to champions like Nautilus and more recently, Sion. His newest skin (happily nicknamed pacific rim malphite) looks fine, but the older skins are definitely starting to look... well... old....

I don't feel like his visuals deserve a complete rework, but maybe something similar to what they did to Renekton? The new splash art for Malphite really looks like how Malph should feel (like a titanic rock monster, so massive and terrifying that his strongest move is literally called: Unstoppable Force)

TLDR of this: Make Malphite bigger, preferably around Nautilus's size, as it seems like it would be more fitting to the champion. And sharpen his skins a bit, to make them feel more coherently like a threatening rock monster.

13 Comments

TheArsynist9/27/2014, 8:13:05 AM4 votes

no but he's absolutely spooky when flying at you with speeds that rival foking jet engines

Ironclad Dragon9/27/2014, 6:44:37 AM2 votes

Sion's new ult should have belonged to Malphite...

dialMARK4acti0n9/28/2014, 10:28:08 PM2 votes

He'll most likely get a VU in the future. Have you seen his size in his new splash?!?! o.o

DwarvenGiant9/28/2014, 6:42:31 PM1 votes

First, TUs don't solve these stuff, since it's only a change for the coat of paint (the texture) of the model. But yeah, I agree, but I think that he should be about new Sion's size. I mean, really, this guy (Sion) is one terrifying train, while Malph doesn't feel as exciting.. :/

junglerboy1610/8/2014, 1:25:21 AM1 votes

Riot has actually said that they think Malphite is undersized because he has an extremely old character model (All champs were much smaller when the game first launched, see the Q&A on the new Sion to see the Riot post about this). If/when Malphite receives a VU (I hope soon, so that he looks like his epic splash art does) they said they would increase his size so that he would be the proper size in proportion to all the other champs in the game, probably similar in size to the new Sion, maybe larger.

Coltsdale9/30/2014, 7:41:48 PM1 votes

Play him right and he will intimidate anyone ;)

Admiralkirk9510/7/2014, 8:32:32 PM1 votes

Have to agree bud, Malphite definitely needs to get bigger, I like his look how he is now, he just seems small compared to other champs now when he's A ROCK GOLEM, his splash art shows him being absurdly big compared to a person.

Now I realize that Mal can't be that big in game, or he'd be as big as the lane is wide. Just doesn't seem right when let's say Master Yi stand beside him and with his sword is taller then him. So the options are this, make Mal a bit bigger a more intimidating or shrink everyone down(this second option seems out of the question, imagine even tinyier Teemo.

Besides that he's fine, his look is cool, and his kit works well for taking a beating and initiating. Would just love to see him grow a bit be the hulking golem that he is.

The5lacker9/27/2014, 11:17:29 PM1 votes

The problem is Malph's kit doesn't really scream "Caught between a rock and a hard place" other than maybe his ult and maybe his passive. He's got some random AoE damage and a speed-steal (wat), and none of it really comes together.

Malph needs a better kit before he can get a better design.