Who beats Malphite in League of Legends: Classic, who Malphite beats, and the Season 3 items, runes and masteries to run top. Patch 26.17.
Magic damage ignores your armor identity and he outranges every trade.
Ult ignores his armor stacking and cleanses the Ground Slam slow.
Ranged magic poke against a pure armor champion. You cannot reach him before you are chunked.
AP top laner with sustain. Your armor does nothing and you cannot punish his pool.
Armor stacking plus the attack speed slow makes an autoattack duelist useless against you.
Thornmail and Ground Slam turn his own attack speed into the thing that kills him.
Armor plus Ground Slam blanks your crit and halves your attack speed.
Ground Slam strips the attack speed his E and passive are built on.
Armor stacking plus Ground Slam strips the attack speed your kit needs.
Armor stacking blanks your crit burst opening.
Start:
Core:
Thornmail and Randuin's punish the AD carries your ult lands on. Armor is also your Q damage.
AP Malphite: Rod of Ages → Rabadon's Deathcap → Zhonya's Hourglass → Abyssal Scepter → Void Staff
Unstoppable Force already gets you on top of the carry. This build makes arriving there lethal instead of merely annoying.
Doubling armor runes is what makes an early Cloth Armor start unkillable against AD tops. Health quints beat armor quints when you expect mixed damage.
9/21/0 Defense. Honor Guard is flat percentage damage reduction from everything. Juggernaut and Block are what make you unkillable to an AD top.
Open Malphite in the app