Should point out that this build isn't very good if you are low elo and need to carry. AP will always be better.

Is Fimbulwinter a good item ?

really great guide, it really helped me dominate my lane <3

Great guide.

Great guide! Helps a lot with the matchups wich is one of the most important things in the toplane with a tank

thanks for this guide! i really want to learn how to play malphite then maybe someday learn how to play him as AP Malph

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I'm liking the sorcery tree better than grasp. I did a quick experiment between the two rune builds vs the AI Garen. Just me vs Garen, using your recommended items against AD heavy teams. Here's some stats from the two games:

Grasp build:
game duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds. final kda: 0/0/0
grasp 2963dmg 3290healing
shield bash 491dmg
conditioning 71% active 41 bonus armor 13 bonus magic resistance
overgrowth 344 bonus hp
manaflow 250b 2694 restored
transcendence 0
final stats:
4589 hp
1950 mana
total damage to champions: 33,099 total damage dealt: 281357

Sorcery build:
game duration: 47 minutes 42 seconds. final kda: 5/3/0 (one of my deaths could have been avoided, I died to tower after killing Garen under his tower)
arc 4136
manaflow 250bonus 4404restored
trans 5 seconds refunded
scorch 1530
biscuit 3 150 bonus mana
time warp 248 seconds hasted recovery from potions
immediate health restored 1273
immediate mana restored 787
final stats:
4404 hp
2100 mana
total damage to champions: 45,003, total damage dealt 316,927

So in my experiment with the Sorcery build I did almost 12k more dmg to Garen, and the comet and scorch combo alone did over 2.2k dmg more than the grasp + shield bash combo. The grasp build gave me almost 200 hp more health but does it matter much when you have over 4.4k health?

i tried this, and tahm just destroyed me, when i had comet it was easier 10 times

:)

Should I wait for the shield fade to activate the W? To have the increased armor for the maximum amount of time? Or does the activated armor from the W combs up with the passive as well

Is grasp good into range matchups or should i take comet?