Talk:Malphite/@comment-7881237-20130607150551/@comment-7881237-20130616142905

I think it's the fact that it only has 0.6 ratio and extremely low base damage for something that is single target and doesn't even scale with percentage HP, is why it scales so poorly. It gets countered by health so easily and any other tanky fighters can pratically stomp him past the mid-game unless he has built full AP pen, that's including abbysal sceptar, Sorc Shoes, Liandrys Torment and Void staff. // With magic pen runes

He needs so many items just to even keep him on even terms with fighters which can cost him so much survivabilty which he needs... his Q stucks Fin.

To name a few ability power champs that scale so well:

Amumu,Cassiopeia, Zac, Diana, Ryze and brand.