Talk:Malphite/Strategy/@comment-146.229.185.9-20120828003908/@comment-24675516-20140313090604

Id like to mention to Jedders that triforce malphite is a very legit strat in any elo, if you know what youre doing ;)

I main ap malphite with athenes for the laning phase, then abyssal and zhonyas. The important thing is to make sure that you dont buy simple ap items such as rabadons or even lichbane - his scalings are really to weak for that. Athenes, abyssal and zhonyas however give malphite a nice combination of stats, allowing him to pretty much halfshot the entire enemy team when he initiates with his ult - e, and then activating zhonyas to wait for his team.

You can add a void staff if looking for more dmg output, or just go tanky with randuins and sunfire cape from there on.

A popular ap malphite build incudes deathfire grasp. I have edited that path into the strategy guide. The idea is to use the active during the ult to immediately blow someone up.

Essentially, the whole ap malphite idea is based on that mechanic - suddenly ulting someone to instantly blow them up.

If youre looking to increase the impact of your ult, try building some ap on malphite, preferably with magic penetration (again, his scaling on the base abilities are pretty much crap so magicpen is great). However, the basic idea for malphite is a initiating tank, so go for that if it feels better for you!

PS Ap malphite sucks vs tanks and bruisers he cant bust down, so triforce malphite is the dmg alternative. Remember to pick up ad runes when going for that!