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Malzahar PBE nerfs

IonChamber·6/28/2016, 6:26:34 PM·2 votes·500 views

I know it's just PBE but that looks ugly.

Sooooo about that change to his W. Maybe I'm not understanding it.

It basically states there is no way to spawn voidlings when you press W unless you kill lane minions. So this eliminates jungle malzahar from the game. ok fine, buuuut....

Does it really mean that there is no way to spawn voidlings for malzahar? Does it mean you naturally spawn one every 4 seconds all the time? Maybe that would be ok. Or do you just spawn a voidling every 4 seconds while they're out only? Other than killing lane minions with his W that is? The duration is pretty short, meaning you'll naturally sort of.... spawn maybe two while they're out? other than that you have to kill lane minions? That is ridiculous unless the voidlings become like, permanent pets or something that spawn every 4 seconds.

Are you planning on just deleting malzahar? Or are you massively buffing his E (and i mean doubling) damage or something else somewhere else. Because by doing this, you're going to halve his damage early game-mid game lol. WHAT...THE...>

Basically you won't be able to proc the voidling enrage, because you'll be lucky to have one voidling out, 2 at max before you try to attack. You will have no All in potential or kiting potential. Uhhhmmm.

You are removing his objective control utility because the voidlings have tiny hitboxes and are right up on the jungle monsters, meaning it will run out and die and that will be it. You won't really want to press W on dragon and baron?

Please tell me I'm missing something, and sorry if I'm a derp. but it looks like theyre deleting malzahar?

2 Comments

AsphodelNext6/28/2016, 6:31:27 PM1 votes

"Every 4 seconds and whenever a Voidling assists in killing a unit, Malzahar spawns a new Voidling with the same remaining duration."

A unit includes jungle monsters. It's a nerf to jungle Malzahar, to be sure. But they still spawn, just a lot less frequently.

Also relax, it's PBE. They revert stuff all the time. I'll guess tomorrow there'll be tweaks or compensation buffs.

IonChamber6/28/2016, 7:02:10 PM1 votes

every 4 seconds when? every 4 seconds when you skill W? Every 4 seconds when W is active? You see what I'm Saying?

Malz has the lowest damage E and Q in the game probably. and his ult is pretty low damage too until max build/rank

He will basically have no damage until 40 minutes with this change. Most of his damage (all of his burst) comes from voidlings. WIth this change, if I'm reading it properly, you won't have any voidlings out ever.