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Oblivion Awaits (Malzahar)

Asphyor·4/20/2017, 11:50:45 AM·1 votes·610 views

Malzahar Oblivion Awaits no more! After this patch Malzahar got nerfed into oblivion by RIOT. Of course they're on a tight schedule/budget and the problem can't be adressed for now but what Malzahar needs is a whole level rework.

Here's my 2 cents on what should be done.

First of all it would be nice if his ingame model will be changed. The proportions on his body are very unnatural thus it can be worcked on. Shadow price skin could have golden particles.

I believe that the main issues in his new kit are his passive, E and R
Here's my suggestion: Revert his kit [partially]

Passive: Malzahar is surrounded by 3 untargetable voidlings with insert balanced numbers here. Malzahar's basic attacks and E marks the target and the voidlings will attack it. Enemies affected by E are a priority for them. Malzahar receives Void Shift if he hasn't taken damage nor been affected by crowd control in the last 30 / 24 / 18 / 12 seconds. Damage from minions does not interact with Void Shift. Void Shift phases out Malzahar, making him immune to crowd control and taking 90% reduced damage, lingering for 0.25 seconds after taking damage or blocking a crowd control effect. When void shift is broken, Voidlings get frenzied for a brief time.

W: no longer spawns the voidlings and becomes the old damagin aoe are o effect, voidlings getting a ms buff while over it.

R: pool removed, deal damage over the duration, keep the supress.

1 Comments

Mataka Tek4/20/2017, 8:21:46 PM1 votes

Interesting, but not sure if this will really work as expected but its worthy of consideration:

Thoughts: I don't see anything about voidlings spawning, so the assumption is they are a constant presence? thus they cannot be killed. Untargetable... does that mean they can't block any incoming skill shots? (One of the benefits of the voidlings is that I can press W to help me place them in the physical path of the enemy, and their skill shots).

My assumption is that frenzied voidlings would always attack the nearest champ to them unless they had Visions or Neterh Grasp Applied, which would take precedence.

R: The fact that QSS break the ult makes this champion useless at the higher ELO games. It is imperative that IF the suppress is broken (Via QSS or Other CC) then the Stun converts to a Nasus like SLOW for the duration of the ult only. Also currently QSS disengages the channel damage and it should not do that.. it should only disengage the CC.

Additionally, suppressed champs should not be able to cast or auto-attack

I would like to see Malzahar get some kind of scaling Penetration Buff with each champion kill. This would help his late game where he begins to falter against most of the other champs.

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