RiotRepertoire:"If Cassio and Malz turn out stronger I would be disappointed"
Repertoire was apparently more concerned with his 55% winrate in bronze/silver and how to make him weaker rather than actually giving him a healthy kit for every eelo. When the community was asked about Malzahar the Malz mains said "don't turn him into a pokemon master". The thing Repertoire just did. His kit is a complete joke and has nothing to do with his core identity. Playing AD malz was fun sometimes but never something I did in ranked during the 3 years I mained him. Now his whole gameplay revolves about unviable, uncontrollable, unreliable derping voidlings and pressing R. Why is AP Malz being forced into the AD gameplay?
Repertroire didn't solve any of Malzahar's issues. He just made it plain worse. His highest dps spell got removed and replaced by his current passive! The damage of his ult got removed completely and replaced by a weaker version of his W. Like what were you thinking??? His new passive is just a new way to protect himself while using his ult. Therefor he now completely revolves more than ever about pressing R but his R doesn't kill anyone. And to make it worse his ult, Q and E have been dumpestered in terms of damage. So now he is nothing more but a pet master.
You did the exact opposite of what you should have done. You took power out of his entire kit to put it in his worst trait: His derping voidlings. Don't you think that if revolving his gameplay around the voidlings was a decent strategy AD Malz would actually been strong and viable for years now. It was nothing but a niche and Malz funmode.
•1.Distinct - offer a unique reason to be picked Failed: Malzahar was an APC Tankmelter with devasting power to kill everyone who stand in his way. Now he is an AD jungler who resembles Nunu/Udyr when it comes to clearspeed. I don't recognize Malzahar anymore. Everything i loved about him has been destroyed.
•2.Cohesive - deliver on their core thematic and gameplay fantasy Failed: I don't want to be a pokemon master. I want to be a Prohet of the Void and bring doom upon my enemies. The only thing I do is press W or R and hope my pets will be uesefull.
•3.Healthy - balance-able and fun to play as and against at all skill levels Failed: His kit has zero damage. He relies completely on the first Voidling to deal damage to an opponent to chain more Voidlings. He will be a lanebully and insane early jungler who will invade you. I believe he will be devastating in the jungle. Once his jungle capacities have been nerfed if he turns out to be viable there he will be left without identity.
- Why do I want to play AD Malz who relies on pets when i can also pick a mobile ranged ADC who can crit+lifesteal with his AA and has a complete kit at to do this at his disposal rather than "press W to spawn pet".
- Malzahar niche was the fact he was the best mage vs tanks. Now he needs to buy Last Wisper to deal damage vs tanks. What a joke.
- Malzahar's abilities deal no damage
- Malzahar's passive has nothing to do with his identity
- QSS still counters the only thing he can do in a teamfight
- Why do I want to play a DPS AD pet-mage who will never be able to outdual any ADC?
TL;DR: For a champdesigner you are completely incompetent and it pains me that I have to go through this torture of yours for the next months were you will keep muddling through until in 6 months you come to the conclusion his rework has utterly failed. I hope het gets picked in LCS as AD jungler and reks everyone until he gets nerfed into oblivion. Thanks a lot!
I will post this again in 4 weeks when everyone else has tried Malz and has come to the same conclusion.