Talk:Malphite/@comment-3578129-20120328154417/@comment-3578129-20120330212842

Armor gives very little AOE damage to you. It's only 50% of total armor, +50 dmg every 7 sec doesn't make much difference. But +40% ad for 6 seconds is really gamechanging.

I build warmog as early as possible, because you need tankiness in early-mid game. By this time no one has one highly stacked type of damage (ad carry doesn't deal a ton of ad damage, ap carry doesn't have 500 ap to kill you with 1 burst), so raw HP is a good choise for early-mid game.