Talk:Malphite/@comment-4888212-20130116203042/@comment-76.11.13.254-20130118044646

The real question, is why don't people play him ADC? ^.~

Think about it, +40% AD, an excellent initiaton/gap closer, obscene chasing potential, and any other ADC gets -50% AS. Toss in a top notch laning phase with +10% health-which regenerates-and you're looking at someone who's actually rather terrifying of an ADC.

Note, also, that the +40% AD also increases the damage on critical hits.

So really, his AP ratios aren't honestly that impressive. His ADC capacity is frankly something well worth playing as an off the wall build that no one expects, and will have difficulties countering due to such.

His only real drawback as an ADC is his lack of gap closing once his ultimate is down, but really, once he's in range the first time, his Q's enough to generally fix that fairly well =3