Talk:Malphite/@comment-5211662-20140504213020/@comment-7846894-20140703210959

Because Malphite has shitty dueling without tank items and building roa leaves you super vulnerable to all ins before completion and to fully benefit from roa you need to build it as early as possible, otherwise you're delaying it's full potential. Roa would be good on him midlane, however he would still make more use out of chalice or armor. Basically you gain almost nothing out of building Roa toplane except better poke. You shouldn't be running out of mana on Malphite with a Sunfire unless you're playing bad and spamming Q for the sake of spamming it when a champ gets near you. All in all, but they serve different purposes, and top lane where beefy hard hitting all-inning sluggers live, it accomplishes very little. Roa works on Ryze because he gets a huge power spike with everything out of it. Singed is naturally tanky and so is Cho. Malphite is pretty squishy aside from his passive which is easy to keep down.