Malz ult+Passive ruins the potential of his kit and theme through power budget
Malz ult is insanely strong, so strong in fact that even with serious nerfs consistently since his rework we've seen him still as an extremely effective high elo pick.
This is because he has a ridiculous suppression and a free banshee'a veil
without his ultimate he has his voidlings, which have been nerfed quite a bit, his DoT, and his Q, which while making him good at shoving, don't really help him in 99% on 1v1 fights even against champions who don't have their ults up.
The fact is that malzahar is probably the most iconic summon based champion in League and yet isn't focused around his principal of summoning but is rather focused around supressing the biggest threat (Pressing R) and allowing his team to nuke them, or in the rare case he isn't grouped, he can just wait in a bush to 100-0 someone with a single rotation in a matter of only 5 seconds of watching
Suggestions? these suggestions are probably bad, but the thread is addressed at the issue of his ult starving his power budget, here's some mud at the wall that probably wont stick. Either way I tried
Remove his passive, replace it with some sort of MR/armor steal
bring back his hybrid damage on W.
make his minions more survivable in later phases of the game, yet still manageable, my idea is to make them more succeptable to abilities by introducing a 2 auto attack to kill mechanic, but also a single hit threshold. this threshold if met would 1shot them, changing the AI of the minions to have them advance in a slightly less clumped position would be good
Replace his ultimate: Malzahar's old W had a lot of zoning power. What if he had a new ult with a relatively low cooldown that functioned similarly to a cross between his new W, His old W, and Zyra's Ult. In essence it would produce voidlings as long as he's on it and would empower these voidlings.
Attack speed?
Malz with a little bit of auto damage trickled in would be pretty cool. Maybe extend the attack speed buff of his minions onto malz as well when targetting an enemy afflicted by his E
