Talk:Malphite/@comment-6000413-20130627154547

Just buy Lyandry. The rest of the build go off-tank (sunfire, thornmail, black cleaver, spirit visage...)

on your Q Lyandry applies the full 12% of current health and your final should apply something like 9% to every enemy hit

Since you use Q to start a fight and harass, you will increase yuor damage dramatically: if your enemy has around 1200 HP you hit him for 300 dmg. If he has 65 MR (count 50 because of lyandry)he goes to 1000HP. Then lyandry burns around 120 extra damage, that gets reduced to slightly less than 80. So you have dealt around 280 damage, while without lyandry you would have dealt 163 damage, meaning 70% extra damage. That would require 300 extra AP to cover with just AP. On the final you don't gain that much advantage, but I think it's still more convenient to build lyandry over every other ap item. Then go tank and some AD, you will gain more damage than through AP, but that depends on your ability to stick to your opponent and continue to auto.