So why is it that every champ can get qss? And dmg? And mobility? And the champ who is mentioned to stop that is getting ruined? By an item that's super cheap kills him off. Qss plus minions insta dieing to spells and autos from champs. With everyone running thunder like what? What's the point of a longer game champ is everyone ends it at 15? Ruot what are u doing
Because Riot doesn't want to side and reward very low mechanical champions such as malzahar. Your complaints about Qss is entirely false. It's not a "super cheap" item to buy and if I am playing a MAGE that doesn't synergise with Merc Scim, you will rarely see me building that. Qss is the ONLY item in the game that can nullify Malz R at will because Cleanse no longer does so on suppressions.
What's the point in buffing an abhorrent low mechanical champion? Do you want riot to not reward other champions that actually have difficult combos and complex abilities? The highest skill cap play I've seen a malzahar do is just Flash Ulti. That's it.
Flash Ulti
Also nalz dmg is so low you legit can't just "e" win lane. Every champ beats him now, even champs his kit is mentioned to stop. He is anyone mobile. That's what he was made for. But when Vlad? Yas? Zed? Can just duel win with both only r and starter items. There's a problems
Ok, couple of things.
@S V - Yes Malzahar is a low skill cap champion who just flash ults. Why is that? Riot has systematically taken away any skill or usefulness in his other abilities. His voidlings? Turned into a spam ability. Q damage? Trashed. E damage? Trashed. Ult? still trashed but that suppress... You speak of high risk high reward, but in the current meta, being immobile is the highest risk possible. Having no burst is also a major risk. Malz has both of these. Does he need a buff? No, as Skaarl says, he needs a full update. Until that can be done, he should have a short term fix and reverting him to his pre 2016 rework is the best/easiest/quickest way to do this.
@Paroe - A revert would be good, but remember the reason he is in his current state is due to his ult. I can't see him being allowed to be anything more then a walking ult as long as that this exists.
For those that haven't realised, look back at the meta change, look at the changes that lead up to it. The top counter to hypermobile hypercarries was malzahar, with lissandra and annie also very strong at this. Taliyah's splash damage kept them on their toes. Junglers were also very strong in shutting these down alongside the aforementioned midlaners. Want to see the #1 cause for the current meta of who can 1 shot fastest? It's the removal of these champions that have been in the game for YEARS as a stop-gap to prevent exactly the kind of mayhem we've seen recently.
You can call them low skill cap because they don't have a hundred dashes, need to hit all their abilities to do damage (thus having some point and click ones), and their build path is laid out for them by riot each game as standard (because there aren't really any options), but in the end they kept the game from breaking, they made most champions viable midlane; not just the zed's and yasuo's. Without them you've got S8 summer split... a chaos that has lead to even pro players and youtubers loyal to riot for years actually quitting the game.
-- Loki --
the problem the main problem is power creep, which rito wont admit to its just "tanks are to weak" really? i just watchs a full ad garren never die and still insta me and others with no problem and heal for days
