Malz mains - still rushing ROA after 5.13 patch?

i nerver went for roa on malzahar anyway, i prfered athen's for cdr and mana, and rylais for slow+hp. I might change that now though, tear + roa may be a bit slow as a start, but they got buffed by 40ap together, so going that root is basically a free balsting want compared to befor the change. cdr glyphs + boots should be sufficient for cdr.

I never build Roa on malz, I go gg anyone dead

The RoA is taken on Malz because of the tank stats really. Suppression is a 2 sided mechanic because you're essentially suppressing yourself at the same time. The HP helps him survive any damage he might take during his ult channel.

I'm thinking that you rush now

Always start .

Of course, I'm an AD Malz main, so I'm far more mana hungry than an AP.

seems like a better option now, well kind of. Depends on whether or not you can budget your mana and how efficiently you regenerate it with E.

Malz should be a glass cannon. Everyone on the other team should be too scared of his dmg to get close enough for him to ult.

I'll probably still get it first item, the increased AP and mana are quite delicious; and while i'll be hurting a bit due to the slight hp loss (-150 I think?) I'll probably get the new liandries second (rather than third or fourth item now) due to its increased AP, makes it a better purchase earlier on, and the earlier hp from that should make up for it.

Follow up into deathcap and then rylais (with sorc shoes somewhere in there depending on how im doing; build other items as needed if i run into a bad situation like a fed enemy carry who I can't lockdown for whatever reason).

Personally I never liked on Malzahar and found it rather overrated.

I usually built him: Final item was if there is a specific mechanic I wanted to avoid (e.g. Zed, Fizz, etc.). Otherwise I got

I usually run him with CDR per level Runes. This combined with Athene's and 5% from Masteries got me to 40% CDR. Let me tell you, a 3 second AoE silence on a 5.4 second cooldown is pretty broken. 48 second cooldown on your ultimate also means you have a 42 second window where you can kill people with QSS/Merc because that item is on a 90 second cooldown.

malzahar main here, im going to keep rushing rod of ages but get liandrys second item since it used to be core and now its really strong

Meh I still kind of like being semi tanky as Malzahar. His innate burst is really good.

lol i love how the silver 3 is trolling on everyone like he's plat xD and why rush RoA when you can solo kill with Morellonomicon and ap quints without your ult

i always prefered going chalice for the cdr - and the new rylais is goddamn strong on malz as main health-item.