Riot, please give us old Malzahar.

is that supposed to be his ult?

Won't ever happen because Riot thinks that the old Malz was too OP. They purposely nerfed him by reworking him into a near unplayable state. The only good thing to come out of this was his spell shield passive. AD Jungle Malz became a thing then disappeared cause Riot was like, "Whoops wasn't supposed to happen!" Old Malz had far superior ratios and was actually viable just not many people played him. New Malz does next to no damage and is only good for his ult locking down a certain target. Outside of that literally no reason to play him anymore unless you just want to troll with zzrot banner push.

This can also be applied to Yorick. Yorick prior to his rework was incredibly good, but not many played him. Old Yorick had an insanely oppressive laning phase. Old Yorick's ult was incredibly viable in team fights, his ghouls were near infinite as long as you had mana, and his play style was all out aggressive come camp my lane or taste the salt of your team. New Yorick is literally old Yorick with no limbs on a pair of crutches. His ghouls are terrible, his ult is barely viable, and his play style is slow farm to make 2 seconds of impact.