Talk:Malphite/@comment-9705522-20131221211540/@comment-5160958-20140114042608

you gotta realize that he auto attacks alot with malphite when he builds trinity, so crit and attack speed and ad are not actually being wasted. if you get the proc timing on the spellblade passive, its actually quite a bit of sustained damage, and the phage passive combined with q to get those first couple hits means that no one can get away. this give you dominance up top. unfortunately the damage becomes less significant later in the game, so if you haven't been noticing the impact of the item, you might be getting it too late.

its also significant that the damage is physical, and since malphite traditionally has magic damage and people often itemize magic resist against malphite, that physical damage is going to be nearly true damage until they buy some armor. if you can time your buy to be right after they commited to a mag resist item, you will tear them up. alternatively, if they go armor, you might be better served to just sticking to your normal ap/tank build...