@Midseason Mage rework: Malzahar rework idea thread

Spoofghoul··2 votes·815 views

Ok so our friendly void prophet Malzahar is a candidate for Riot's mage update.

And i figured i would start a thread where everyone can post their idea's. Makes it easy for everyone and Riot to see what crazy ideas are out there.

So ill start with a crazy idea of my own

Malzahar Summons voidlings but does not do much with them other then sending them after his opponents. So i was thinking, What if he can instruct one of his voidlings to jump on an opponent and attach itself to them. And after a brief delay it blows itself up. So basically suicide attack by a voidling. This ability would have a mediumlong cast range, so Malzahar would have to be within a certain range to cast it after which the opponent gets marked so everyone can see what is happening. Then the nearest voidling will run towards the marked opponent and once it gets within short range it leaps on the target and sticks to them and after 2 seconds it explodes violently.

Moving out of malzahars voidling leash range for 1 second will remove the mark, otherwise it dissapears after 4 seconds. Also cleansable by cleanse Qss oranges etc, the explosion is shielded by spellshields like banshee/blackshield and applies spell effects. Voidlings jump on the target from 350 range, this jump has a 2 second cooldown after which the voidling tries again if the target is still marked and the voidling is in range. Jump speed/missile speed 975 (speed at which the voidling travels once it jumps towards target) Explosion radius is 175 Cast range 850 Damage 80/120/160/200/250 + 70% ap +100% of voidlings ad + 2/3/4/5/6% maximum health Not sure about cooldown yet. was thinking medium cooldown.

This would have to replace one of his current abilities and im not sure which one. Also this would mean he loses voidlings quite fast if used often. Which might require some tweaks in how malzahar gains voidlings aswell.

Anyway that was one of my crazy ideas ^^

Now i would like to see some of your crazy ideas.

6 Comments

AshranReaver2 votes

That seems like more of a yorik thing to me

Spoofghoul1 votes

Why wouldn't malzahar have this ability

Gives him more interaction with his voidlings

AshranReaver1 votes

That's true but malz already has the most interation and control over his pets in the game tbh. Voidlings are long term damage though and they already follow malific visions pretty much the same way this would work. Not to mention that this would destroy AD malzahar, go against his dot mage identity and goes against their intended use with wave clear and replacing autos while ulting.

Yorik on the other hand is all about short term summons, chasing, bullying and just being a we have reserves type champion lol. All those ghouls and summons but damn they seem to be random as hell in teamfights. The ability itself resembles almost exactly Elise's volitile spiderling/venomous bite interaction except for the damage scalings (way to high imo).

I'm not against it just it doesn't fit with malz imho

Spoofghoul1 votes

i get you point, you think the ability does not fit malzahar.

But i think it would make malzahar way more interesting. Now you have to make alot more decisions on how to use voidlings. Does one want the dps from voidlings or does one want to nuke the opponent. Also i made it so that a voidling has 2 tries to attach itself if is is close enough, dodgin the ability would make malzahar waste mana. But in order to have a high chance of succes on landing it he will have to take risks and get close

it is kind of similar to his e though, but it also offers options for interaction with it, just something which comes to mind right now. Like for example if you kill a target with your sucide voidling whilst it is infected with malefic visions then the visions spread to 3 targets instead.

I also added an ad ratio for all the AD Malzahars out there.

It scales really well damage wise but it requires you to have a voidling in the first place and there is ways to avoid it once cast by walking out of leash range (1700) or kiting it for 4 second or avoiding its attack.

Anyway that is my opinion Perhaps it would suit Yorick better who knows Yorick need a rework anyway so maybe he should get something like this. I just think it would be cool for malzahar to have ^^

Frigid Ice Storm1 votes

interesting

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