User blog comment:KaiserLos24/TELL ME I'M PRETTY- Some cosmetic changes/@comment-4022742-20140516164557/@comment-620927-20140516204640

...Malphite has never had a VU...He's looked exactly the same since 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCfM2LyM6M

Here's a video from almost 5 years ago, he's got the spikes then - you can tell this is old because this even has the old old loading screen before they starting doing real splash arts and just did pictures of the champion.

He had spikes then. He's got spikes now.