And how he isn't higher in the rework tier list. Like honestly, this rock needs some major love. He is such a dull character with so little to him besides being a not so slow moving rock and his hell of an ult. Not to mention his kit is full of really weird hidden power that players wouldn't instinctively notice. Movement speed steal on his q? E slowing attack speed? It's hard to know about these things without playing or reading up on this rock man
if i were to guess i think as opposed to some champs malph still has a niche
granted its not a fully explored niche its still a niche that works
as opposed to urgot who didnt really have a niche but also had terrible visuals where malphite only has half of those problems
regardless i would love a malphite vgu
reminds me of this old fan concept art i saw http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/353/c/5/malphite_lowpoly_shots_by_blindconcept-d8af2in.png
Reav3 said the other day that he kind of regretted putting out a tier list and that it's not set in stone. It's ever-changing and just whoever they feel could use one most at the time is what they will do. Don't worry, Malphite could surely be bumped on their priority list.
The important change to Malph is to make his head less ridiculous.
Outside of gameplay he has to be reworked with real care, in terms of design and lore. Some what him to be from Targon, but how would them write him in without him being a boring mountain, how doe they write lore for him without him being a boring mountain in general, and however/ which ever theme they place him into his design has to make sense with that theme. Otherwise he could just wait until the Gameplay team decides to adjust his gameplay. There are a lot more conditions than gameplay, that go into determining who should be reworked, what I talked about above was just one point. Hope that answers why he isn't higher on the list atm.
They just said that he's going to be getting some stuff in 7.16 to hopefully add a little bit more skill expression to his kit, something to the likes of what garen's received they said
i like him because i can 1v1 almost anyone with malph because he doesnt have %hp dmg instead he has very high base dmg xD
There's just a lot of champions that need help frankly, and Riot knows that. (they've already said that rammus, malphite and a few other tanks and champs are targets for VGU) but with only two (maybe three...) teams working on them taking roughly 4-5 months each...it will take a while.
Malphite's still okay on the gameplay side though (in my opinion) and can be effective even if he's not in a perfect scenario. But yeah, he does need help.
Other than that he has soooo much wasted potential.
I believe Riot mentioned they are going to do some minor work on his abilities soon to add more skill expression in his kit. While I could see Malphite getting a a VGU rework for the same reason Sej got reworked (too much power in his ult starves power from the rest of his kit), I think Malphite players are more attached to his ult than Sej players were to hers so I don't know how Riot would go about a healthy reworked kit that is also true to what people love about him.
I am surprised about that since S5. But maybe some here are right and it's cause of his solid place and kit. But imo even Rock should get more love. ^^
Not to mention his kit is full of really weird hidden power that players wouldn't instinctively notice
so, he rewards someone for playing him more than 3 games to figuring him our and learning how to play him OMG SUCH A BAD DESIGN!!!!!! I WANT TO BE SPOON FEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!
