Malzahar is too strong for how braindead he is

koochario·Sep 7, 2017·6 votes·2,236 views

He has no big counters, a good late game, retardproof pick potential, great waveclear, mana sustain, a bit of safety with passive, AoE, annoying pets etc. Average winrate: 54.5% in Plat+ and 60%+ in D3 for mains. This champion is no more difficult than Annie but even more impactful. He takes 1/5th the skill of playing someone like Ziggs, Xerath, Cass, Viktor etc. while actually offering more to most teams. Such a lopsided reward for minimal effort and skill seems wrong to me.

5 Comments

Devilreaper XIIISep 7, 20173 votes

malzahar has in actuallity several weaknesses :

1 basic attack poke and his shield is down before you tear him with abilities

2 quicksilver sash

3 two+ opponents will destroy malzahar since hes got an 1 vs 1 kit

4 his ult can be disrupted

5 the damage is in his dps and voidlings, as well as going in with two or more allies, meaning malzahar needs TIME to cause damage, he can't burst you do death in split seconds.

6 just about any burst mage surpasses malzahar in terms of damage O.O

7 he's squishy

ganggoinkSep 7, 20172 votes

Boards love champs like malz, sion, morde. Usually people who get bullied in school play morde so yea w/e malz is retardly op but for some reason he gets no nerfs

RainfallSep 7, 20171 votes

malzahar has a worse lategame than a lot of other midlaners because of qss and his range. he gets countered by a lot of mages who outrange him and have a spammable ability,like Orianna who is not that good after her nerfs. since his update his kit revolves around reseting his E,by not landing your q you are punished with dealing less than half of your potential damage. The reason he gets picked so frequently is because he can use the voidlings to push the lane against most champions that do not have any AoE abilities.

FlyingRoboticCowSep 7, 20171 votes

Champions aren't automatically stronger just because they're harder to play garen is insane in lane because his sustain is off the charts and he wins a lot of all ins and yet is one of the easiest champions in the game. Also malz can be easily countered by buying item 3140 .