ARE WE JUST GOING TO PRETEND THAT MALPHITE'S CURRENT STATE IS HEALTHY FOR THE GAME?

He's easy to beat if you have a competent team, but obviously solo-queue isn't usually like that. Definitely just stick with someone else if roaming and he's MIA, and he doesn't scale too well compared to others so if he picks before you just counter-pick with a scaling champion or his own counters.