Why did you make Malzahar broken for no reason?

Serrasaurus11··4 votes·1,338 views

So you give a mid-lane mage a BETTER Sivir shield, without needing to activate or pay anything, every 6 seconds? Who was the genius at Riot who thought this was a good idea? How does this even make it past testing???

A mage puts out serious magic damage, (usually AoE), at the cost of having a squishy body. That is a mage's downfall. So what do you do? Give a MASSIVE damage reduction AND cc immunity to a mage? For FREE?? You justify this by saying he pushes the lane too far and gets ganked too often? Thanks Riot, but that is EVERY CHAMP IN THE GAME's problem. I can push a lane to tower as teemo, or lux, or brand too. Does that mean all of these champs should get 90% damage reduction and cc immunity every 6 seconds? In order for this passive to be allowable his damaging abilities would have to be scaled SO far back that he couldn't kill anyone anyway. The fact that Riot needs to do something like this to try to "re-stimulate" interest in League is beyond ridiculous. There was nothing wrong with Malzahar. There is no explanation as to why a champion that was perfectly fine was given a completely broken passive, other than the fact that Riot is stirring things up to try and make players continue to play. In fact, if this is their plan it is backfiring severely. I have just returned to League after a long break and now that I have seen this I am considering taking an even longer break.

Please Riot, fix this huge mistake.

8 Comments

Dukues2 votes

Just reading the notes back when they said they were reworking malz all I could think is "well he's going to be OP". Even before they released the most recent patch notes I decided I am going to ban him in my games.

IWrath1 votes

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Just reading the notes back when they said they were reworking malz all I could think is "well he's going to be OP". Even before they released the most recent patch notes I decided I am going to ban him in my games.

I've already watched one solo baron at just about full build. I feel like he's gonna nerf on his W, that's the only thing that really makes him so strong. The shield he did kind of need.

Strawberrycocoa1 votes

Malzahar isn't the only champion who can solo Baron he's just one of the few APs who can do it. ADs have been soloing Baron for ages. I've seen Caitlyns do it, Yis, etc.

Meatwaudd2 votes

the shield is actually broken, it lasts longer and for more hits than the tooltip says. plz fix rito...no i mean rito is broken...fix it

Paroe2 votes

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the shield is actually broken, it lasts longer and for more hits than the tooltip says. plz fix rito...no i mean rito is broken...fix it

It lasts one second after its popped.. not for a certain amount of hits.

@topic Malzahar is NOT over powered. Hes under powered and no longer has a real niche. Current malzahar is an objective-oriented jungler with safe clears. this translates, BY HOW HIS POWER IS DISTRIBUTED, into WEAK ganks and WEAK teamfights.

Malzahar does not have a good gank; he does very little damage. Malzahar does not have a good team fight; he again does very little damage.

Outside the jungle, malzahar has become an axuilery support for his 2.5s suppression, which is used to let allies focus enemy damage dealers.

WeedTits1 votes

lol reminds me of Morde rework

"He's supposed to shit on you in lane, his counter is that he has to push and therefore will be vulnerable to ganks"

"And if I have a shit jungler?"

"Huehuehuehuehue"

Yeah if a champion's counterplay relies on a 2v1 it's kinda fucked up. That's not balanced.

The Last Ballad1 votes

You do realise that the 6 seconds is only at lvl 18, and if you are still laning at lvl 18, you are doing it wrong(how many games do you even get to lvl 18?). I love how people see something that is only in game at very late game, and calling it a problem for the laning phase. How to fight him would be to shoot a low cooldown skill at him, like an auto attack, then unleash your damage. If you want to fight him, take someone like Swain or Azir(any of the bird champs come to think of it...), mildly tanky, sustained damage people who can pop the shield with a throw away spell(or just an auto attack), then get back into the fight while its down. Swain especially would be a good counter as the more voidlings there are, the more targets he has to heal off of.

Not to mention, at lvl 1 it is 23 seconds without taking enemy champion damage to get the shield. If you take even a single tick of Morgana's pool's damage, guess what? ANOTHER 23 SECOND WAIT! lvl 2 it is 22 seconds, lvl 3 it is 21, and so on, so forth.

So will he be strong? Yes. But hardly the apocalyptic strength you are predicting.

Short version: Mal counters burst people, so get people who kills you over a few seconds to fight him.

The Last Ballad1 votes

Oh, also Sivir's shield is better than Malzahar's in some ways. For not having it up all the time, you are able to not only negate all damage and effects from the spell, but also gain mana back. Whereas Malzahar's can be popped with an auto attack(one you take 10% of the damage from), Sivir's ignores all auto attacks and only pops for spells. Also Sivir's is up more often and can be activated in middle of an fight, instead of only reactivating if the enemy team is absolutely stupid and ignoring you. Oh, and Sivir's spell shield is free. Just so you know.

Short version: There is multiple reasons why Malzahar's shield is inferior in middle of a fight as compared to Sivir's. (it is bolded so that some idiot doesn't ignore that part.)

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