Lissandra vs Malphite Counter Pick

Malphite builds armor because Ground Slam scales with it, and armor does nothing here. Lissandra’s damage is entirely magic, and his 28 magic resist at level one is the lowest number on his defensive sheet, so the 40 base armor climbing to 124.2 that makes him a wall against physical damage is invested on the wrong axis. Over 127 games on patch 16.13.1 she takes 62.2%.

Granite Shield absorbs up to a tenth of his maximum health and returns after a few seconds without damage, which makes Ice Shard most useful as a shield stripper immediately before a real commitment rather than as idle poke. His engage is Unstoppable Force, one long-range knock-up on a long cooldown. Before it is available he has 125 attack range against her 550 and only Seismic Shard to reach her, and the movement speed it steals costs her little from a 325 base. When the ultimate does land, Frozen Tomb cast on Lissandra herself turns the follow-up window into nothing. Malphite is rated 2 for difficulty, a fair reflection of a direct kit, while her 6 buys the tools needed to play around a single telegraphed cooldown and a 665 health body that grows to 2,433. At 335 movement speed against 325 he can walk her down, but only once the ice claw has been spent, which is why the order she uses her cooldowns in decides the trade.