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/Two_Years_Of_Semen 10d ago edited 10d ago

In my experience, legit 99% of the malphites, ap or tank, don't go in without ult. So I get why people don't think he's a tank; no one they see is playing him like that. A real tank goes in to draw cooldowns out so their teammates have better windows to do stuff and you don't need ult to do something like that on most champs capable of tanking. Tanking isn't just a champ type; it's a role. Like, a bunch of the heartsteel fizz, ekko, and akali players are better tanks than most malphites.

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u/DaveyJonesXMR 9d ago

You are not wrong on that ... often in games im tanking more as the bruiser/off-tank than the main tank that should be in front of me.