Talk:Malphite/@comment-168.137.100.28-20110416214017/@comment-89.167.76.163-20110418152651

It's probably because having a small, 0.6 AP ratio nuke and 1:1 Ulti on a fairly long cooldown doesn't make you better in any way than, let's say, 20 other Mages out there, while building survivability/Tanking items synergizes quite well with your Passive, teamfight initiating Ulti where you're expected to actually survive after using it, your Brutal Strikes buff which adds percentage based amount of Armor and that adds to your AoE farming/anti-carry/damage ability. I wouldn't say he's a Tank per se simply because the only real disable is his Ulti but it's certainly better to build Armor/MR/Health or add some Attack Speed/AD to make im a Pusher if your team already has a better Tank than to pretend that he's a Mage.