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Malzahar Jungle Is Dead (Patch 7.8)

SiscoWolf··3 votes·2,028 views

Patch 7.7 all is well. Malzahar Malzahar is balanced, he is not often picked, as a support he does decently well, but can easily be countered by item 3140 QSS. All seems right with the world as I make my way through the jungle. I stay nice and healthy as my minions do the work - though I am not easily able to take dragon alone. Suddenly, a Riot appears and zaps Malzahar with a lethal 7.8 Patch! RIP summoner 11 Malzahar

I mean seriously, not only do his minions have one less hit when facing champions - THEY NOW ONLY GET ONE HIT WHEN FACING ANY JUNGLE MONSTER! They barely are able to do anything at all now. Along with the slight decrease in armor and he is almost unjunglable. You can still attempt it, but the clear speed wasn't great and now is complete trash - his health drops quickly without a full clear becuase he now take a lot of the damage... You definitely can't gank till level 6 becuase you will either be too low HP or you will be too under leveled.

I get that they wanted his support viability to go down a bit, AND in my personal opinion I think this nerf hurt his mid lane more than they think it did - but they really made it impossible to jungle. It was by far my favorite roll for Malz...

I will miss you my friend...

Riot - if you are listening... PLEASE, please make it so his minions can tank damage in the jungle again - not the drag or baron but at least the normal camps!!!! PLEASE!!!!! I BEG YOU!

You have basically forced Malzahar into the mid lane - where there are way better champs that do a better job then he can at everything, waveclear, cc, burst damage, all of it. Why pick Malzahar in literally any roll now???? No one will... Maybe except me... and I will die.... A lot.

Please

PS: Comment REVERT if your poll option would have been to simply revert him back the way he was. Although the buff option is similar enough. I'll leave it up to you ;)

10 Comments

Yaśuo Main1 votes

He can do more physical damage early game than magic damage. And it's not just by a small amount of more physical damage than magic damage.

AKA He's weird and I don't like it, just revert him.

Handy Sandy 1 votes

I feel like his voidling's range should be toned down and die when they get out of a small range or so (around his ult's range) so it makes him more of a mage that gets in there and ults someone putting his passive and slight tankiness to better use.

His Q should get reworked, it's just useless and not really good for anything, the hitbox is impossible to hit too, once it turns into something else he'll stop being useless without his ult.

The only thing that felt oppressive was that when 3 voidlings spawned you're basically dead and you can't do anything about it. It'd be better to keep 2 on an ammo system, buff them by themselves and remove the attack speed they gain.

SiscoWolf1 votes

His Q is actually quite good in late game teamfights. It is a large AOE silence and does A LOT of damage to squishies. If you combo right, his Q makes it hard for enemies to use abilities to escape if you don't one shot them with your ulty combo as well.

Maybe the voidlings shouldn't die when they reach max range, but instead just walk back to you... That way they have a chase limit. But they need to last AT LEAST two hits - especially in the jungle. One hit is complete TRASH.

I agree that he should be more of a tanky close range mage - which is what he is really... So maybe after this nerf, they can buff his tank stats??? IDK...

All I know is RIP Malzahar - they nerfed him into the ground!

Nilok1 votes

Your poll is missing the revert option.

SiscoWolf1 votes

Good Idea.... but I can't seem to edit the poll now :(

Guyy Fieri1 votes

I didn't even realize Malzahar jungle was alive...lul

SiscoWolf1 votes

Totally!!! His clear was a bit slow, but he was so much fun to play and built tanky for really good late game CC and damage. Now though.... :(

Guyy Fieri1 votes

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Totally!!! His clear was a bit slow, but he was so much fun to play and built tanky for really good late game CC and damage. Now though.... :(

You're the type of player that thinks shaco support is good aren't you

jaanleva1 votes

This is it. I may be the only one doing so but no regrets about it. I AM DONE PLAYING LEAGUE OF LEGENDS, TILL THE DAY RIOT REVERTS ALL NERFS TO MALZAHAR.

Mataka Tek1 votes

They don't care if you play or don't play.
But I stopped playing Ranked games after this last nerf. I feel ashamed with how poor the performance is.

Since Malzahar is my Main, I am embarrassed in games where I should be excelling.

It is also really annoying to watch a Syndra, Fizz or Zed Ult me at level 6 and kill me nearly every time (even under turret). They don't even need to have a full item build. Whereas, I have to wait for them to get to less than 1/4 HP before I can kill them.

Sure its not "every" game, because often enough the midlaner is free to roam first because Malz is so easy to gank.

Malzahar's mobility was also nerfed. So, its hard to even push my lane without knowing where the Jg is. It requires that I spend money on defense, mobility, and vision. And because the mana costs are high with spells until I can get a Tear or at least most of it, it is hard to push with0out running out of mana.

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