Malzahar is the new Permaban

Seriously... why did they rework Malz at all?

As much as I love Malzahar's new kit, I have to agree that I miss being able to play Space Aids. He's always been my primary mid champion, now he's always pick/ban, and people are going to expect him to always be jungle.

I still would rather face Malz than etc

Not sure why people would ban him since he's not remotely overpowered.

I personally feel Malzahar is perfect right now for mid lanes, which I'm pretty sure was the intended role. I been a Malzahar fan and I feel this patch update was amazing. Now, I can finally be useful on team fights rather than staying 2 miles away and hitting few spells. I don't care at all for Jungle/AD Malz.

However, now I face the problem where people are banning him non-stop on ranked. People are saying he is too OP now, so I have a really bad feeling Riot is gonna nerf him. I truly hope somehow they can nerf him in JG (Which I think most of the complaints are coming from) but keep his power as it is right now for mid lanes.

Either way, I don't want to get good at malz if he's gonna be nerfed heavily again where you'll need to perfect your positions to be good at him. So, I would like to know future plans.

Malzahar is stupidly overpowered at the moment. I just had my first encounter with him in a normal game. Let me break it down for you.

1. He has a spell shield PASSIVE, which comes back every 6s at lvl 18
2. After his shield is knocked out, 90% damage reduction for 1, AFTER blocking the important CC
   • Considering 1 and 2, at level 18 there's a 4 second window to actually do any damage to him, BUT
     1. He has an AOE silence
     2. He has a permanent suppression that lasts several seconds
     3. Crazy DoT and sustained damage from the void sickness, voidling agro, and the field thing

This allowed him to several crazy things like get a quadra in a 1v4 situation, when everyone started on full or near full health - He wasn't extremely fed, and us 4 were not very weak either

For sure the new update for Malzahar is a cool concept, but I feel it's way too strong to be allowed to remain unchanged on the Rift.

Perma-banning from now on <3

~The Sweaty