Talk:Malphite/@comment-3014924-20150609153740/@comment-24057740-20150612144355

Rammus is better in pick comps and has greater duelling. He scales better with items and can 1vs1 the enemy adc or varius ad assassins in the lategame especially with thornmail. But you can only play him in the jungle, and if he gets shut down early he has a hard time to come back.

Malphite is a good toplane char to counter AD-tops that need to snowball. He is a safety pick because he doesn't need any items to function. He has one of the best initiates in the game... thats it. You can play him jungle/top and even mid as ap nuker could work, but its a bit trolly. If you want strong initiate pick him.

Rammus -> against teams with AD-Assassins and not much kite power (normaly teams with assassins mid have less kite in theyr team, he works better against full AD-Teams in my opinion)

Malphite -> against AD or AA reliant Bruisers(Riven, Renekton, Trynda) and when your team lacks a good initiate.

And if you want an anti AD-support pick Taric