Talk:Malphite/@comment-24055932-20140413011839

Malphite got one of the best initiations, an awesome gapcloser, a stun, high base damage. His q helps him keeping on the target, and his e lowers the damage he'll get.

But even with all these awesome skills, without his ult, his kit is absolutly laughable - you got no hard gapcloser, no hard CC, and your damage is poor as well. I feel the necessity to take away some tankiness from him and replace it by something offensive, allowing him to be a real danger to anybody he can reach, even if he already fired his ult.

As his AP/Armor scaling without his ult is pretty low, I think his really strong AD-Steroid has to be abused, propably by creating a nuke, either with SotD or Hydra.

Does anyone of you play him with offensive items? Which are working best for you?