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Malphite + Frozen Heart + Randuin's is hilarious.

Meeks011··9 votes·3,205 views

I spam my E and after I kill them I get to ask "why'd you stop attacking". And they're like "wtf it wouldn't let me attack". Because his E is 50% attack speed reduction, and Frozen Heart and Randuin's are 15% each. In total, 80% reduction. People who don't have attack speed items go down to one attack every 3-5 seconds. They just stand there and stop attacking. A fed Vayne with 9 kills had 1.44 attack speed then me with 3 kills E'd her to bring her down to 0.6 and I killed her easily.

For all you Vayne haters out there, Malphite is the champion for you. If you want to get really up close and personal then play Malphite support and max his E first.

18 Comments

tseihei4 votes

you do know that this stacks multiplicative right? at least between FH and Randuins...

junglerboy161 votes

Either way, he's right. If you want someone to shut down an ADC, Malphite's your guy. Even with the multiplicative reduction meaning he actually reduced ~64% of their attack speed, for someone with 1.0 AS (which is average for a level 18 no AS item champ) they are down to 0.36 AS, or about 1 attack every 3 seconds. Even if the Vayne had a crazy amount of AS like 2.0, she'd still get dropped to a measly 0.72, which is crushing for a champ that relies so heavily on AS.

Dryditch2 votes

You meant Rylai's, not Randuin's.

hi im Godric3 votes

Rylai reduces movement speed not atk speed. Randuin however reduces atk speed so I am sure he meant Randuin not Rylai :)

Dryditch1 votes

Whoops. Thinking of the absurd movespeed slow on Q with blue smite and Rylai's

Kei1431 votes

Nasus and Nunu can do that too.

HenryDahNewb1 votes

just add more attack speed slows from Nasus Nunu

Chaotic Reks1 votes

shhhhh, riot will nerf it

I Main Swain1 votes

lol I reaaaally think atk speed slows should have a soft cap

ElJanitorFrank1 votes

They do.

Attack speed reduction is counted as a slow, and slows have a soft cap.

junglerboy161 votes

Doesn't work like that actually, there is no cap on attack speed reduction except that it is multiplicative, which means the more you get of it, the less each instance actually does. If you start with 100% of your normal attack speed, and malphite uses E, you're down to 50%, so his E is completely effective. after that, the Aura slows that 50% of your normal attack speed by another 15%, you get 42.5%. Add on the next 15% from Randuin's and you get down to only 36.125% left. If it worked additively, then he would actually reduce attack speed down to 20% of normal with that setup. Basically, you can never reduce someone's AS to 0 unless you have a single 100% attack speed slow (also known as an entangle, like Amumu's ult), but hypothetically you could reduce it to an infinitely small amount with enough stacked debuffs.

Attack speed reduction is specifically not counted as a standard slow, and is not effected by the same soft cap, or even tenacity unless the ability with the AS slow has another CC effect that is effected like tenacity, such as Nunu's snowball or Nasus' Wither.

Meeks0111 votes

No, cause AD and damage per hit has no soft cap. Vayne's silver bolts has no soft cap.

Also, this massive attack speed reduction only lasts 3 seconds, while Vayne's silver bolts is permanent.

EffectFX1 votes

They already do.

Hard Penetrator1 votes

Malph is fun in general. He can handle bruisers, assassins, mages, he can top jungle and support, his ult is a game changer and his build is really cheap. Fine balanced champion with fantastic potential to carry games.

PikaCHU5671 votes

I never knew this. LOL.

Shroom Junkie1 votes

Nasus + Nunu + Malphite + item 3143 + item 3110 = very, very slow AS.

Meeks0111 votes

And in what team comp would this work?

Well Nasus top, Nunu jungle, and Malphite support... seems legit.

EffectFX1 votes

It doesn't actually get to 80% since it doesn't stack on top additively

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