Am I the only one who finds Maw of Malmortius to be too powerful?
While old
wasn't nearly as good as new
and probably needed changes, I find the new Maw to be overloaded.
Before, you would rush Hexdrinker only as a defensive countermeasure against APs that unlike other MR options, would still give you damage, You would not upgrade it into Maw until later in the game. Sometimes people would even sell Hexdrinker for other magic resistance items.
However, the new Maw of Malmortius is not just an item that can defend against APs while still providing offensive presence. The new Maw is a complete hard counter to APs. For example, because it has armor penetration, AD assassins and bruisers should no longer worry about losing armor penetration against squishy opponents. They can just rush this as this item already provides everything they want. While new Maw gives less AD than its old self, the armor penetration more than compensates for that, as it also works with a champion's base damage.
But this is not the only reason why this item is such a hard counter to AP champions. The other reason is that the passive of Maw gives any AD champion complete 1x1 potential against any AP champion, making it impossible for almost every mage and AP assassin to do anything against AD bruisers, ADCs, and assassins, because on top of the magic resistance and the magic damage shield, a Maw of Malmortius user also gains sustain and attack speed while the AD champion itself does not sacrifice anything for that. Before, AD assassins would sacrifice armor penetration for this item, but this is no longer a problem for them, making this item even more powerful.
I am the only one who finds that to be problematic?
For example, on my last battle, I was using
. The enemy team was full AD, with
being their mid laner, and they also had
jungle,
top, and
as their main ADC. All of them except Corki built a Maw of Malmortius (but Corki built a QSS so I still had difficulty in killing him too). At this point, I couldn't 1x1 any of them. Even though none of them built a
(which is supposed to be the actual item that can counter Malzahar) they could 1x1 me as Malzahar because of Maw of Malmortius alone. Due to this reason, even though I got fed early, I couldn't do much later in the game because of this item, and I had to purchase an early Void Staff to be able to do some damage against them. I still won, though, as my team's
got to the late game, and you know that you should not be allowing a Vayne to reach late game else she is unstoppable.
can mess up a maw pretty bad. Even if you Zhonyas as Malz your dots should finish them off while you're untargetable.
wasn't supposed to completely annihilate a
if he stepped out too far.
who isnt tanky at all.
, another AD/Mr item, atleast giving you a choice.
and
could probably abuse it.
EDIT:
too, how could I forget shrugs
has been literally the most underused and one of the worst items in the game for ages, and is now one of the most ridiculous items.
and
into an item like
that gives armor and mana regen
for some Spell vamp