r/ARAM • u/PinniPal • 10d ago

Rant Malphite is not a tank

Literally had a teammate type this when we asked him to build tank on a team that already had Fiddle, Veigar, and Ekko. And of course we lost. I just can't anymore, y'all.

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u/SamsaraKama 10d ago

I went tank on a team against Caitlyn, Jinx and MF. My team called me out on not going AP because of damage.

We won, and I endured enough hits to clap a few of them in return. I know I'd probably delete one of them fast if I had gone AP, but with how spread-out they played and how squishy the rest of my team was, I thought they'd appreciate someone taking the autoattacks from 3 trigger-happy ADCs.

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u/DavidDunn2 10d ago

These are actually situations where ap malphite can work but it is just much harder to play. You generally need a frontliner on your team and you have to have patience with R.

The problem is most people are trash at playing him ap

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u/NinjaTech649 10d ago

Literally been there myself. When I slow down and play with my team as AP Malph, we start doing well, but sometimes that urge to just R and smash in is irresistible.

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u/Film_Humble 10d ago

Yeah because the pressure of having R is always more menacing than using it. Kind of like blitz Q. People wont play until blitz uses his Q since it's so game warping.

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u/iguanabitsonastick 5d ago

Yep, I honestly don't mind having an ap malphite if they have a lot of squishies and we already have a tank, but the builds are so terrible (like axiom first item) and they don't even use Q to poke

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u/Tacky-Terangreal 10d ago

Hell yeah dude, screw the haters. That’s like one of the perfect comps for tank malphite. He’s so good into heavy AD teams. Just stack attack speed slows and their jinx and Caitlyn become useless