Malzahar his playrate is lower than prior to his rework and Riot keeps ignoring him

iTaLenTZ·Jun 1, 2018·7 votes·2,139 views

Malzahar always used to be a niche pick, one trick pony with a dedicated playerbase around 3,5%. For quite some time now his pickrate is less than 2% and still dropping. It is clear that nobody cares about this failed rework. How much longer do we have to wait for a complete revert to his Original state? When will someone at Riot feel responsable for what happened to Malz and how it alienated his mains? For months posts about Malzahar have been ignored. Each time people ask Meddler in his Quick Gameplay Thoughts threads they get ignored by him and this has been the case for months now where the same guy is asking the same question every time and is ostracized by Meddler. Go watch and see for yourself the proof is in the pudding.

This has to stop!

6 Comments

SalsonJun 1, 20183 votes

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/malzahar/middle/platinum

Plat elo, 50.1% winrate, 3.7% playrate.

Seems perfectly balanced. He's weaker in high elo and stronger in low elo because he's an easy to play pubstomper. Exactly how he should be.

Sun Wu RyuumokuJun 1, 20183 votes

Malzahar always used to be a niche pick, one trick pony with a dedicated playerbase around 3,5%. For quite some time now his pickrate is less than 2% and still dropping

stop lie

https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/current/platinum/plus/champion/Malzahar/ https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/platinum/plus/champion/Malzahar/

HethaleanJun 1, 20182 votes

3.5% play rate is not niche or mains playing him. An actual one trick pony would be Mordekaiser, or Garen. They have play rate less than 1%. He's BARELY in the bottom half of play rates for champions. He also has a good win rate. I'm not sure if it is a 'failed rework' beyond mains not liking it (Mmains NEVER like reworks and Riot doesn't owe it to make a rework that is 100% something all mains will like. you can not please everyone). I know it seems compelling to use such aggressive language, but I don't think much of it is true in this case at all.

Meddler frequently doesn't answer questions an HOUR or so after he posts. You posted an entire DAY. I usually watch the questions come in for that hour after he posts, and his responses. I so very very rarely see a question about Malzahar. It's not Meddler 'ostracising' Malzahar players. Try asking a question when he's reading the post, not a day afterwards and think it's all a conspiracy.

DraygenBiscuitJun 1, 20181 votes

The reason it is dropping is likely just because they have other champs to play. If you are right and Malz is bad right now, (witch he likely is) then maybe instead of one tricking him you should try and play some other champs. I know it is kind of annoying because he is your favorite, but the more champs you can play the more fun it is, and the better you become as a player.

LordGeovanniJun 1, 20181 votes

Malz needs a kit change

Giga BaboonJun 1, 20181 votes

Don't worry about it they're buffing yasuo next patch because he wasn't god tier for a patch, while champions like lissandra get to sit in the dirt for years on end.