Talk:Malphite/@comment-212.117.1.33-20120710114330/@comment-154.20.11.76-20120717101228

^to the person ranting about how Olaf gets killed so easily against Malph, if you're up against a poor olaf, fine, sure, your scenario sounds possible, but you can't have a logical argument if you just go "Here's my best case scenario. All Olaf players will always fail against Malphite because of this."

In particular, did you seriously just say that by the time an Olaf goes to ult, they'll already be dead? -really-? The ult that can be used while CCed, while initiating, while any moment that they may be at full health, but no, they're going to wait until they're already massively low on health or dead to go "Oop, I better use that thing that makes me tanky and immune to these slows I'm getting"

The idea behind why Olaf's kit has some stats that could be considered to give him an edge against Malphite are several - in particular, his E and his R - true damage - no matter how much armor you get, it's still going to rip the same sized chunk out of malphite regardless of how much armor he has. His R gives both armor and magic resist, which protect against Malph's mixed damage - the magic from his abilities, the physical damage from his brutal strikes, as well as some innate armor pen.

An Olaf with their R up will take no slow from your Q, no attack speed reduction from your E, no knockback fro your R, and reduced damage from everything you do. This gives him an edge, you can't deny that.

Of course, olaf likewise has a problem since he will have a hard time getting through armor to lifesteal. In a one-on-one situation, Olaf has a strong advantage.

Likewise, I can see him having troubles early on, or if he stacks his Q first, or threw it as poke harass instead of playing smartly, malphite has the edge... ... *cough*

You can go beyond that and compare item choices, you can go "lol imma just make sure olaf doesn't get any farm and is weak whole game and will never be problem because Malphite is teh uber", but that's just not going to accomplish anything.