Greetings fellow summoners, I am Remos Van Damme and I bring you AD jungler Malphite.

Malphite in this build offers a good refreshment from the usual tanky builds. It is extremely fun to play and combines two objects of game that are underused, underrated and overpowered.

This build is not about being a tank. It is about a new approach to the role of Malphite in the team. This quide is the Pandora's Box to the untapped power of Malphite and also extremely fun and satifing to play.

Don't be arrogant by voting this build down only because this build doesn't look like other usual builds. I am trying to bring something new to table and please don't punish me for it.

With Malphite this is the safest mastery tree to build. You want to 0/21/9 to benefit from the Summoner's Resolve and Runic Affinity . These masteries are not something you should follow rock solid, if you change anything make sure you still have Summoner's Resolve and Runic Affinity .

Other Summoner Spells should not be picked because you want to have a solid escape possibility. Why? I will go over that shortly.

Jungling order:

1. Ancient Golem
2. Wolves
3. Wraiths
4. Red
5. Wolves
6. Wraiths
7. Golems
8. Gank, farm, or back


I don't think that you should really much stray from that order for the first round in jungle. But after you have cleared golems try to stay in jungle until red and blue buffs fade. After doing the golems go for gank at the golems lane and try to force them to burn their flash or heal or whatever they have, but don't get yourself killed. Until you get level 6 this is pretty much all you can do with ganks, but you might be able to fetch some assists. These early ganks will make the enemy be scared about you. They may start to be hesitant in future engagements being afraid that you will jump out of somewhere and slap them in their faces with your rocky hand.

You also should attempt to counter jungle a little bit by taking enemy junglers camps when you see him at the other side of the map. But if you are taking his creep camp always leave one minor creep there. That way he will have to kill that creep before new ones spawn timer starts to run. This will but him back a little in gold and exp income. Also Malphite is pretty strong 1 vs 1 early on, so if you see that laners are not going to help him, try to take him down or at least make him start running. This will overall add up to your scare factor and jungler himself will get a little bit scared to go into his not-so-safe jungle.

You priority in ganking should be bot lane as there are always ad carry and support. Malphite is basically a counter to auto-attack based champions. As a boon to your AoE auto-attacks, they are in group. Why is this good? At the beginning you have lot's of armor and 10% damage reduction which makes very hard for AD carry to harm you. This Malphite basically counters AD carry based META by instilling fear in them and setting their progress back with his ganks and forcing them to recall often or to play passively.

But don't forget your other lanes though. You will want to gank them too couple of times and try at least to make them recall to base. This strategy will set your laners ahead in gold and exp. As you already do a little counter jungle and thus getting ahead of enemy jungler, you are already winning the game in long run. You are like a steroid to your team.

For me this strategy results often an early surrender by enemy team. By which time I have Tiamat and still am collecting money for third item.

But how do you gank? Come around enemy side jungle walls if they keep a ward up (Or buy Oracle's). Hit AD carry with your Q. This will make them slower and will give you and your laner a better chance to get some hits in. Also pop E to make AD carry's retaliation attempts a waste. Run up to him and use your W to boost your damage and armor even more. Remeber that you can use your E like Hecarim's Q if chasing. It might be this damage to finish them off. As you have high amount of armor at early game you E also has huge amount of bonus damage as it scales off your armor.

Another way to gank is to enter lane bushes from your side of lane when you can do so without getting into minion or enemy champion's vision range. And again slow with Q, reduce their attack speed with E and W when getting in range for your auto-attacks.