Riot wants to see Malphite in mid lane soon
Riot hopes to see Malphite with AP items build in mid lane through the next patch 8.7, according to the latest PBE update.
Riot is buffing Malphite’s ultimate. His ult is the main tool is his arsenal, and that’s especially true for the AP variant, because it deals the most magic damage. The ability’s cool down is dropping by a fair amount, starting at 10 seconds at rank two and 20 seconds less at rank three. The first rank will have the same cool down, though.
The next buff essentially adds more burst to AP Malphite’s kit. Typically, when Malphite’s ultimate is ready, he flies into a fight and then uses his Q on whomever he knocks up. That gives him a good chunk of damage to take down his target or at least get them close for his team. Now, though, he’ll also have his E, Ground Slam.
The AP scaling on this ability is being cranked all the way up from 20 percent of his max AP to 60 percent. So, if Malphite has 200 AP—not including the ability’s base damage or armor scaling damage— that AP will grant this ability 120 damage instead of 40 like it does now.
Maybe this changes will make players think about selling Frozen Heart and buying Luden’s Echo in the next days for more magic damage with Malphite.
Those changes must be arriving with Patch 8.7 next week.
