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Malzahar is completely ruined now. Thanks a lot Riot. Waste of Overlord Malzahar skin.

StrengthAndHonor·12/23/2016, 2:26:09 PM·14 votes·2,141 views

Malzahar was my favorite champion and the only champion that I could always play and enjoy, no matter if win or lose.

But now I come back to this game and find out MALZAHAR was completely ruined. He is 10 times weaker now than he used to be. Riot has nerfed his nuking ability in exchange for some stupid shield I never wanted in the first place. Give me back my Null Zone which was a great AoE teamfight ability, and my Voidlings passive and get rid of this dumb shield. Malzahar is an AP Mage, I'm supposed to Nuke the enemy to death.

And oh my gosh you have completely neutered Malzahar's most powerful ability : the space aids. His E used to last longer and do more damage. This was my MAIN damage ability with Malazhar, not my voidlings.

Basically, you deleted one of Malzahar's offensive spells (Null Zone) in exchange for what used to be a PASSIVE ability, Summon Voidlings! How is this Summon Voidlings ability even worthy of being a W spell for a Mage? Summon 2 stupid little voidlings that I can't control, and Riot has even slowed the Voidling movement speed.

Malzahar is completely unlikeable as a champion now. I can't believe this. I really want a refund for my Overlord Malzahar skin.

I mean, Veigar was ruined too, but at least his ability is still the same, his Q is just a skillshot now and the stun effect was tweaked.... but he's virtually the same. BUT Malzahar was completely changed into something different! And now he's terrible!

27 Comments

nm101012/23/2016, 2:30:33 PM6 votes

I liked the voidlings before this last change, but now they are slow as fuck and die to a stiff breeze in teamfights. I haven't touched him since the 4-5 games after that change and I probably won't again, basically wasted 2-3 months practicing him after I hit diamond just for him to be relegated to an r and q spam bot.

Korillo12/23/2016, 2:31:50 PM4 votes

Welcome to the club of ruined mains. Rip Vladimir

JohnnyNeverSins12/23/2016, 3:10:41 PM4 votes

People fucking crying over how prechanged malza was easy af while theres still fucking lux, annie and basically every other ap midlaner...and NO,because lux has skillshots and shit that doesnt make her ''harder to play'' Velkoz has also skillshots and he is so fucking easy to play...with tons of fucking damage...the amount of true damage on a basic combo is just insane...think about late game Velkoz...he can deal up to 2500+ (most of it true dmg,AND ON EVERY ENEMY CHAMP) Malza was the same with the only difference being that the damage he dealt,was for one champion...At least back then he was fun to play in my opinion...you could kill someone by yourself,now your jungler comes and just takes your kill because the damage you output is smaller than yasuo mains dick,so yeah,i would really like to see him getting a buff at his Ult...i dont know,like an extra 200/300/500 damage OR if thats too much, fucking remove the ''true damage (10% max health?)" off his kit and add something like in the past....

NvestmentPlanker12/23/2016, 2:50:10 PM3 votes

honestly, good. now you can learn how to play a champion that ACTUALLY REQUIRES SKILL instead of point and click bullshit.

Rebonack12/23/2016, 3:08:11 PM2 votes

The crazy part is that Malz players warned Riot that this would happen.

"Hey guys, don't put more emphasis on Malz' Voidlings. All you'll manage to do is piss off AP Malz AND AD Malz players."

Low and behold, that's exactly what happened. I was one of the guys who popularized AD Malz on Dominion back in Season 2. He was my second most played champ next to Kog. And I've hardly touched him since the rework. It just feels awful now.

I've come to hate the 'roster updates'. They're by and large Riot trying to fix what isn't broken and ruining otherwise fine champions.

Rynart12/26/2016, 12:24:21 PM2 votes

Why fix what was not Broken i said it multiple times the Rework is shit. And the last nerf to Malz pretty much kicked him outta the game. The new malz Main dmg are the minions, what did riot do? make the minions so goddamn squishy that they get one shot by any kind of aoe. Like what does Riot even want at this point from this champion his overall dmg got reduced from his spells and got moved to the voidlings, after that they nerfed voidlings multiple times. At this point a revert to the old malz WITHOUT THAT SHIELD PASSIVE would be the best option. The only reason he gets so many nerfs is basically of his passive which again got nerfed multiple times. Riot designed him as midlaner some people played him as jungler which is fine but the champs main focus should still be what he was designed too midlaning meaning mage not jungler.

Troll for Trump12/23/2016, 5:35:09 PM1 votes

Welcome to the club Talon Mordekaiser Vladimir Ekko Fizz Brand Zyra Swain

khorney12/23/2016, 6:16:41 PM1 votes

I've posted this before but people don't listen ... you literally have to cast w twice then e then ult in hopes on killing anyone now. So I stopped taking him mid and take him supp due to harass with e and disengage with w (body block is strong) and engage with q if I can and kill anyone with ult... ping so your adc can followup . And ultimately is used for peeling later . And your passive allows no one being able to do anything