Malphite Tank?

[quote=Freki]maining malphite lately best initiation for your team is ult, ground slam and randuin ! If you take 3 of the opposite team in this, it's over ... Btw I find malphite not hard to kill also, so not the best tank, but great initiation and enough tanking abilities ! So you can't stay as much as a rammus in middle of the fight, once you initiate, you and deal your nuke damage, you won't be that usefull. Last advice, rush randuin, unless they have a lot of AP damage, go randuin ! so great for malph, hp hp/5 armor, and awesome active ![/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]I see so many people start off with a Doran's Shield. I say no. I build him much like ColbyCheeze does: [[Sapphire Crystal]]+2 [[Health Potion]]s [[Catalyst the Protector]] [[Mercury's Treads]] Then at that point, I eventually finish Banshee's Veil, Randuin's Omen, Sunfire Cape, Aegis of the Legion, and other staple tanking items based on what I need. I prefer this because I can just harass so much more freely with my Q in a solo lane. Combined with Greater Seals of Clarity, mana isn't an issue early game at all. This improves farming, harassing, and the general ability to get kills. Sometimes, I'll take a Doran's Ring instead of Sapphire Crystal, but for the most part, I prefer the latter.[/quote]

[quote=Riggsinator]He's a great secondary tank, and a decent main tank. That's in my opinion at least.[/quote]

[quote=Iratesniper]The way i build him, when i play even if there's another tank, I'm always the main tank[/quote]

[quote=nomad93][quote=Jebus McAzn] I see so many people start off with a Doran's Shield. I say no. I build him much like ColbyCheeze does: [[Sapphire Crystal]]+2 [[Health Potion]]s [[Catalyst the Protector]] [[Mercury's Treads]] Then at that point, I eventually finish Banshee's Veil, Randuin's Omen, Sunfire Cape, Aegis of the Legion, and other staple tanking items based on what I need. I prefer this because I can just harass so much more freely with my Q in a solo lane. Combined with Greater Seals of Clarity, mana isn't an issue early game at all. This improves farming, harassing, and the general ability to get kills. Sometimes, I'll take a Doran's Ring instead of Sapphire Crystal, but for the most part, I prefer the latter. [/quote] well with doran you get health, health regen, and armor which stacks with your E does alittle more dmg keeps then flash and clarity i keep good amount of mana all game then my Q also helps for escaping[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]The thing is, if you run Sapphire, you can afford to take Flash and Ignite, or Flash and Ghost, and not have to waste a summoner spell on Clarity. I've also tried Clarity, and I don't find the trade-off useful enough.[/quote]

[quote=DEWO]For sure Malphite is (normaly) not a dps. If you build him as a tank you still can be considered a caster or even a burster. His burst damage is quite insane. There are several options tho. I was building him for DPS also, when his BS was better AD scaling. I still think that malphite is THE BEST FARMER INGAME when built for dps. Atm he is still more valid as a TANK not a dps or caster. On the sidenote if you dont own a blue buff with some CDR he is quite passive tank (just like Alistar) you throw fiew skills and than you... dont do much... untill your cds are refreshed.[/quote]

[quote=nomad93]i will admit that i have not tried malphite without clarity expect for my first game i believe. But clarity, also helps the champs near me too. When i lane with someone like GP who runs low on mana it helps a lot of course this is with my friend. But i find my Q almost 3/4 as good as ghost bc of slow and increased speed even though i cant use it to chase either. But when i do die it usually would of not help to get away. but i feel like im going to give w/out clarity it a try with it just bc of an idea i had [[Glacial Shroud]] which is overall just perfect for malphite i just wouldnt finish it to Frozen Heart most likey. it just means i get sunfire a bit later which helps alot with farming.[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]That's a difference - I typically go solo top with Malphite because he's a very powerful solo laner. In those cases, Clarity isn't as useful, which is why I prefer my Sapphire Crystal.[/quote]

[quote=BryceTheTerrible][quote=nomad93] oh i usually go armor malphite sunfire-->boots(usually Mercs for MR bc i get more armor later)--->either GA or Banshee-->Then either more armor or Rilays generally something like that and i do great dps and generally semi-tough [/quote] So just saying, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this more of a tank build?![/quote]