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PCMalphite was last nerfed in Patch 26.2 (). Across 64 patches, Malphite has received 26 buffs, 13 nerfs, 24 adjustments since release in Patch 0.9.22.16.
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Patch 26.2nerf
Malphite’s been a frontrunner on the Rift for a while, both in top and in the jungle. We’re actually very happy that he’s found a real audience in the jungle! That said, he’s still overperforming, so we need to bring him down now while still leaving him with two roles to play. To do that, we’re reducing some of his trading and clearing damage while retaining his high durability to physical damage and strong engage power. We’re also hitting jungle a little more as it’s meant to be slightly weaker than his top lane, as opposed to slightly stronger, which is currently the case.
Thunderclap
- Monster damage reduced to 180% from 200%.
Ground Slam
- Base damage reduced to 60/95/130/165/200 from 80/120/160/200/240.
- Mana cost increased to 50/55/60/65/70 from 50 at all ranks.
Unstoppable Force
- Cooldown increased to 130/115/100 seconds from 130/105/80.
Patch 25.23buff
Malphite has a natural jungle kit with a decent gank paradigm, and repeatable damage for killing monsters. He just doesn't deal enough right now to comfortably clear, so we're juicing both his early game clear (hint hint start W!) and late-game as well, since he often builds full tank and needs his damage to keep up with growth monster health.
Thunderclap
- New Effect: Monster damage increased to 200% from 100%.
- This applies to all parts of the ability.
Patch 25.20buff
Malphite's a solid top laner and a consistent rock for his teams, but even so he is often a bit heavy for his teams. We're giving him a little help this patch by increasing his base armor just a bit to solidify his early game.
Stats
- Base armor increased to 40 from 37.
Ground Slam
- Base damage increased to 80/120/160/200/240 from 70/110/150/190/230.
Patch 14.18buff
Passive shield strength increased.
Granite Shield
- Shield health ratio increased to 10% maximum health from 9%.
Patch 13.18change
General
- Updated ability icons.
Patch 13.8nerf
W empowered attack damage decreased, cleave damage armor scaling decreased.
Thunderclap
- Attack base damage reduced to 30/40/50/60/70 from 30/45/60/75/90.
- Cleave armor ratio reduced to 15% armor from 20%.
Patch 13.4buff
W cooldown decreased, armor scaling on W attacks increased.
Thunderclap
- Attack armor ratio increased to 15% armor from 10%.
- Cleave armor ratio increased to 20% armor from 15%.
- Cooldown reduced to 10/9.5/9/8.5/8 seconds from 12/11.5/11/10.5/10.
Patch 12.23buff
E base damage increased, armor scaling increased, mana cost no longer increases with rank.
Ground Slam
- Mana cost reduced to 50 at all ranks from 50/55/60/65/70.
- Base damage increased to 70/110/150/190/230 from 60/95/130/165/200.
- Armor ratio increased to 40% total armor from 30%.
Patch 12.22nerf
Stats
- Base mana regeneration reduced to 7.3 from 7.32.
Patch 12.19buff
W AP scaling increased. R AP scaling increased.
Thunderclap
- Cleave AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 20% AP.
Unstoppable Force
- AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 80% AP.
Patch 12.16buff
Passive cooldown decreased early. W cooldown now decreases with rank.
Granite Shield
- Cooldown reduced to 8/7/6 seconds from 10/8/6.
Thunderclap
- Cooldown reduced to 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds from 12 at all ranks.
Patch 12.10buff
Stats
- Base health increased to 644 from 574.
- Health growth increased to 104 from 90.
- Armor growth increased to 4.95 from 3.75.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
Granite Shield
- Shield health ratio reduced to 9% maximum health from 10%.
Patch 11.12buff
W on-hit damage increased.
Thunderclap
- Cleave base damage increased to 15/25/35/45/55 from 10/20/30/40/50.
- Cleave armor ratio increased to 15% armor from 10% armor.
Patch 11.1change
Stats
- Base health reduced to 574 from 575.
- Base attack damage increased to 62 from 61.97.
Patch 10.23change
Stats
- Base health increased to 575 from 574.2.
- Base mana reduced to 280 from 282.2.
- Mana growth increased to 60 from 40.
Patch 10.13change
Thunderclap
- Bug Fix: No longer reduces the amount of Hail of Blades stacks.
Patch 10.3buff
General
- New visual effects.
- Basic attack added heft and size to swings and hits.
- All skins cleaned up and matched for base changes.
Granite Shield
- Added activate and deactivate sound effects
Seismic Shard
- Cleaned up and added a sound for when his haste run activates.
Thunderclap
- Updated with hooks for cast, loop, and new empowered hit and auto attack hits.
Ground Slam
- Cleaned up.
Unstoppable Force
- Updated with new hooks for cast, miss, and hit.
Glacial
- Thunderclap
- New cast and ability loop.
- Unstoppable Force
- New ability miss.
Mecha
- Granite Shield
- Custom passive active.
- Thunderclap
- New ability loop.
- Unstoppable Force
- New ability miss.
Ironside
- Granite Shield
- Custom passive active.
- Thunderclap
- New ability loop.
Odyssey
- Granite Shield
- Custom passive active.
- Thunderclap
- Updated attack hits.
Patch 9.23change
Thunderclap
- Bug Fix: Empowered attack window no longer lasts indefinitely if the first basic attack that would proc it is canceled.
Patch 9.17change
Unstoppable Force
- Bug Fix: Is now properly disabled when ground.
Patch 9.15buff
Seismic Shard
- Slow increased to 20/25/30/35/40% from 15/20/25/30/35%.
Thunderclap
- Base damage increased to 30/45/60/75/90 from 20/35/50/65/80.
- Bug Fix: Cleave damage is no longer also tagged as proc damage and will now trigger Hunter's Talisman.
Unstoppable Force
- Bug Fix: Now casts at max range if used outside of maximum range.
Patch 9.14change
General
- New visual effects for all abilities and skins.
- New Effect: Malphite is now slightly smaller at the start of the game.
- New Effect: Malphite's size increases with armor, capped at about 850 total armor.
Granite Shield
- New Effect: New shield regeneration VFX.
Seismic Shard
- Improved cast animation for most skins.
- Now spawns his rock ~100 units in front of him rather than at his center point.
- Slow strength increased to 15/20/25/30/35% from 14/17/20/23/26%.
- Slow duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
Thunderclap (Reworked W)
- Renamed Thunderclap from Brutal Strikes.
- New Active: Malphite's next basic attack within 6 seconds gains 50 bonus range and deals 20/35/50/65/80 (+ 20% AP) (+ 15% armor) bonus physical damage on-hit. Additionally, for 5 seconds, Malphite's basic attacks also deal 10/20/30/40/50 (+ 20% AP) (+ 10% armor) physical damage in a cone to units behind his target.
- New Active Effect: Thunderclap resets Malphite's basic attack timer.
- Removed Active: For 6 seconds, Malphite's basic attacks deal 15/30/45/60/75 (+ 10% AP) (+ 15% armor) bonus physical damage which splashes to enemies around his target.
- Mana cost increased to 30/35/40/45/50 from 25 at all ranks.
Unstoppable Force
- New Effect: New VFX impact creater.
Patch 8.7buff
Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 4 from 3.375.
Ground Slam
- AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 20% AP.
Unstoppable Force
- Cooldown reduced to 130/105/80 seconds from 130/115/100.
Patch 7.19change
Brutal Strikes
- Bonus armor reduced to 10/15/20/25/30% armor from 15/20/25/30/35%.
- New Effect: While Granite Shield is active, this bonus is tripled to 30/45/60/75/90% armor.
Patch 7.15change
Mecha
- Bug Fix: No longer has visible seams on his model.
Patch 7.11buff
Ground Slam
- Armor ratio increased to 40% total armor from 30% total armor.
Patch 7.1change
Brutal Strikes
- Bug Fix: Mecha Malphite's chromas now properly put spikes on his fists for the duration of Brutal Strikes.
Patch 6.17buff
Brutal Strikes
- Cooldown reduced to 12 seconds from 14.
- Passive armor increased to 15/20/25/30/35% from 10/15/20/25/30%.
- Active damage ratio increased to 15% bonus armor from 10% bonus armor.
Patch 6.4nerf
Stats
- Base health regeneration reduced to 7 from 8.5.
Ground Slam
- Base damage reduced to 60/95/130/165/200 from 60/100/140/180/220.
Patch 6.2change
Unstoppable Force
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it would sometimes knock up and damage units at the start position instead of end position when interacting with displacement spells like Pillar of Ice.
Patch 5.12change
Brutal Strikes
- Base damage reduced to 15/30/45/60/75 from 25/40/55/70/85.
- Scaling changed to (+ 10% AP) (+ 10% armor) from (+ 15% AP).
- Damage radius increased to 225 from 200.
- Fixed a bug where Brutal Strikes could be seen through Fog of War.
Patch 5.11change
Brutal Strikes - Rework
- New Passive: 10/15/20/25/30% increased Armor.
- New Active: For the next 6 seconds, Malphite's basic attacks deal 25/40/55/70/85 (+ 15% AP) bonus physical damage to his target and surrounding enemies.
- New Effect: Attacks during the active now properly display the ability's AoE.
- New Effect: Attacks during the active use the critical strike animation.
Patch 4.7buff
Granite Shield
- Cooldown reduced to 10/8/6 (at level 1/7/13) seconds from 10 at all ranks.
Brutal Strikes
- Mana cost reduced to 25 from 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70.
Patch 1.0.0.143nerf
Ground Slam
- Armor ratio reduced to 30% armor from 50% armor.
- Now has a 20% AP ratio.
- Attack speed reduction duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
Patch 1.0.0.140buff
Stats
- Health per level increased to 90 from 82.
Unstoppable Force
- Travel speed increased.
Patch 1.0.0.139change
Unstoppable Force
- Fixed a bug where it could be interrupted by enemy Whimsy.
Patch 1.0.0.138change
Seismic Shard
- Fixed a bug where the movement speed bonus was lost if the target died.
Patch 1.0.0.135buff
Granite Shield
- Now shows a cooldown timer.
Unstoppable Force
- Area of effect radius on impact increased to 325 from 300.
- Malphite can no longer Flash while using Unstoppable Force.
- Fixed a bug where Malphite would seem to hit the target but would not cause the effect.
Patch 1.0.0.129buff
Stats
- Base armor increased to 18 from 13.
Brutal Strikes
- Cooldown reduced to 14 seconds from 16.
Ground Slam
- Cooldown reduced to 7 seconds from 8.
Patch 1.0.0.126change
Brutal Strikes
- Modified the shape and range of its passive splash component.
- Added a visual indicator on targets hit by the passive splash damage.
Patch 1.0.0.125change
Ground Slam
- Fixed a bug where the armor value in the tooltip was not rounding.
Patch 1.0.0.123buff
Brutal Strikes
- Mana cost reduced to 50/55/60/65/70 from 55/60/65/70/75.
Ground Slam
- Mana cost reduced to 50/55/60/65/70 from 60/65/70/75/80.
- Area of effect radius increased to 400 from 350.
Unstoppable Force
- Fixed a bug where it sometimes failed to pass through Crystallize, Pillar of Filth, and Cataclysm.
Patch 1.0.0.118buff
Granite Shield
- Recharge timer reduced to 10 seconds from 12.
Patch 1.0.0.115buff
General
- Champion IP cost reduced to 1350 from 3150.
Patch 1.0.0.113nerf
Granite Shield
- Recharge timer increased to 12 seconds from 8.
Ground Slam
- Armor scaling reduced to 50% from 70%.
Patch 1.0.0.111change
General
- Updated tooltips.
Patch 1.0.0.107nerf
Seismic Shard
- Slow and haste changed to 14/17/20/23/26% from 10/15/20/25/30%.
- Cast range reduced to 625 from 700.
Ground Slam
- Mana cost increased to 60/65/70/75/80 from 60 at all ranks.
Patch 1.0.0.106nerf
Seismic Shard
- Base damage reduced to 70/120/170/220/270 from 80/135/190/245/300.
Patch 1.0.0.105change
Ground Slam
- Fixed a bug where it broke through spell shields and still affected the target.
Patch 1.0.0.104buff
Stats
- Magic resistance per level increased to 1.25 from 0.
Ground Slam
- Fixed a bug where it would go through spell shields.
Unstoppable Force
- Stun duration increased for 1.5 second from 1.
- Fixed a bug where the stun wouldn't last long enough.
Patch 1.0.0.103buff
Seismic Shard
- Cooldown reduced to 8 seconds from 10.
Ground Slam
- Fixed a bug causing it to look like it had shorter range than it actually did.
Unstoppable Force
- Cooldown reduced to 130/115/100 seconds from 140/125/110.
Patch 1.0.0.100nerf
Unstoppable Force
- No longer be cast while root.
Patch 1.0.0.99buff
General
- Updated recommended items.
Granite Shield
- Recharge time reduced to 8 seconds from 10.
- The shield will now automatically restore to full after 8 seconds of not being hit. Previously it would not replenish until a new shield activated.
- Fixed a bug where the shield particle would not appear for a second after the shield activated.
- Fixed a bug where the shield strength would not update after buying a health item until a new shield activated.
Seismic Shard
- Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 12.
- Slow duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5.
- Mana cost reduced to 70/75/80/85/90 from 80/90/100/110/120.
Brutal Strikes
- Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 20.
- Fixed a bug where the cleave percent would take double the amount of bonus attack damage.
- Cleave percent increased to 30/38/46/54/62% from 30/35/40/45/50%.
- Cleave will no longer proc while hitting towers.
- Active effect changed to increase Malphite's armor and damage by 20/25/30/35/40% from increasing his damage by 30/40/50/60/70%.
Ground Slam
- Mana cost reduced to 60 at all ranks from 60/70/80/90/100.
- Updated the tooltip to display how much bonus damage Ground Slam gains from armor.
Unstoppable Force
- Is now unstoppable and cannot be interrupted by disables.
Patch 1.0.0.85buff
Stats
- Attack range increased to 125 from 100.
- Base movement speed increased to 310 from 300.
Unstoppable Force
- Fixed a bug where it was sometimes uncastable while Malphite was at low health.
Patch 1.0.0.79change
General
- Updated recommended items to better account for his passive.
Patch 1.0.0.72change
Unstoppable Force
- Animation improved.
Patch 1.0.0.70nerf
Unstoppable Force
- No longer affects Baron Nashor.
Patch 1.0.0.63change
Stats
- Base armor increased to 13 from 4.
Brutal Strikes
- Removed cast animation.
Patch 1.0.0.61change
Stats
- Base armor reduced to 4 from 17.
- Base armor per level increased to 3.75 from 3.
Ground Slam
- Mana cost increased to 60/70/80/90/100 from 60/65/70/75/80.
- Attack speed reduction changed to 30/35/40/45/50% from 20/30/40/50/60%.
Patch 1.0.0.52nerf
Seismic Shard
- Now steals the amount of movement speed that the target has lost instead of increasing Malphite's movement speed by the equivalent percentage lost.
Unstoppable Force
- Stun duration reduced to 1.5/1.75/2 seconds from 1.5/2/2.5.
- Cooldown increased to 140/120/100 seconds from 120/100/80.
Patch 0.9.25.34change
General
- Updated secondary/critical strike animations.
Patch 0.9.25.21nerf
General
- Changed ability hotkeys.
Seismic Shard
- Range reduced to 700 from 790.
Brutal Strikes
- Cooldown increased to 20 seconds from 16.
Ground Slam
- Armor to damage ratio increased to 70% from 50%.
Unstoppable Force
- Updated area of effect to sync up with indicator.
- Cooldown increased to 120/100/80 from 105/90/75.
- Range reduced to 1000 from 1300.
Malphite added to League of Legends
Granite Shield (Innate)
- Malphite summons a shield of rock that absorbs 10% of his maximum health. If Malphite has not been hit, this effect will recharge after 10 seconds.
Ground Slam (Q)
- Malphite slams the ground sending out a shockwave that deals damage based on his armor and reduces the attack speed of enemies for 4 seconds.
Seismic Shard (W)
- Using his primal elemental magic, Malphite sends a shard of earth through the ground at his foe, dealing damage and stealing movement speed for 6 seconds.
Brutal Strikes (E)
- Passive: Malphite's attacks deal damage to units around his target.
- Active: Malphite's damage is increased by a large %.
Unstoppable Force (Ultimate)
- Malphite ferociously charges to a location, damage enemies and knocking them into the air when he reaches that location.