Talk:Malphite/@comment-2248060-20120513060847/@comment-71.4.30.163-20120514063515

Like any bruiser you need some survivability items to get into close combat.

He has a percent based AD steroid, so you want to build ad, like a black cleaver, BT, or IE on him(pick just one), over say a wits end or trinity. You should do that after building hog(to build into randuins later), and some other offensive survivability items. Be sure to build a little mres on top of merc treads, since ap's the only thing your abilities don't shut down.